Mamata Banerjee on Thursday questioned the BJP’s performance in Bengal in the Lok Sabha polls, alleging misuse of cash, demanding answers on the sources of funds and asserting that it was “no ordinary election”.

“How much money has come to the banks? Which banks? How many crores? Which areas? How much money? Through which banks?” the chief minister asked after visiting a slain Trinamul leader’s home at Nimta in North 24-Parganas.

“Through a fact-finding committee, we are looking into everything. We will find out everything. But you (the media) also find out. Which bank, how much, through whom, the entire operation…. Everything will come out,” she added.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, The Telegraph reported the sale of electoral bonds worth Rs 370 crore in Calcutta in May this year and the Calcutta Main Branch of the State Bank of India selling electoral bonds valued at Rs 1,389 crore between March 2018 and May 2019.

The figure makes Calcutta second only to Mumbai, the financial capital, in drawing money through the anonymous route ever since the scheme opened last year.

“This election was no ordinary election. (Something like) this had never happened,” Mamata said.

Referring to the Lok Sabha election results in Bengal in 1984 and 2009, when the Opposition secured victories in a large number of seats, she said there had been no post-poll violence, nor was there any muscle-flexing by those who made gains.

“Had the verdict (this time) been spontaneous, a true people’s mandate, there would not have been this tandav,” Mamata said.

“They know the real conspiracies will be unearthed, that is why this tandav,” the chief minister said.

She castigated the BJP for its alleged culture of murder and violence to expand the party’s base in Bengal and accused it of “lighting naked funeral pyres of terror”.

The chief minister urged the people against letting the BJP advance in the state.

“Giving money, getting people killed — it has become so easy…. Who are the planners? Who are the conspirators? Everything must be found out,” Mamata said at Nimta.

“You (the BJP) have not even won here yet, you merely won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats though jochchuri (fraud), through lukochuri (hide and seek), spending thousands of crores…,” the chief minister said.

“They are lighting naked funeral pyres of terror…. Bengal is not the place for terror, it is the place for peace,” she added.