A four-member team set up by BJP national president J.P. Nadda visited parts of south Bengal and met families of party workers who had been attacked by alleged Trinamul Congress activists during the rural poll process.

The “fact-finding” team was led by former Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

The team members will visit the violence-hit areas of north Bengal on Thursday.

Prasad and other members of the team — Satyapal Singh, Rajdeep Roy and Rekha Verma — addressed a news conference in BJP’s Salt Lake office before leaving for Hingalganj in North 24-Parganas.

“Violence and murders during the rural polls are unacceptable. So many people have been killed; why have so many people had to die in this election? We will visit the violence-hit areas of north and south Bengal. Later, we will submit our report to our national president J.P. Nadda,” Prasad told journalists.

Prasad also took a dig at a united front that the national Opposition parties were trying to put up to take on the BJP in the ensuing parliamentary elections.

“When cold-blooded murders and bomb blasts are ripping apart the democratic fabric of India in gram panchayat elections in Bengal and with people not being allowed to cast their votes, why have votaries of the Opposition unity like Rahul Gandhi and Sitaram Yechury suddenly gone silent,” he said.

The chief minister dubbed the BJP’s “fact-finding” team as “the provocation team”. Mamata Banerjee asked why such teams were not sent to BJP-ruled states when they suffered a breakdown of law and order.