‘Incompetent Home Minister must resign’: AITC blames Amit Shah for Delhi blast, security collapse

Kolkata: The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) on Monday launched a scathing attack on Union Home Minister Amit Shah, demanding his immediate resignation over what it called a “complete collapse of internal security” following the Red Fort blast in Delhi that claimed more than a dozen lives.

Addressing a press conference in Kolkata, senior AITC leaders said the explosion—triggered by a slow-moving, explosives-laden car in the heart of the national capital—had exposed “glaring failures” of the Union Home Ministry.

“If the Home Minister himself cannot identify whether this was a terror attack, how will he secure the nation? If he doesn’t know, who will?” the AITC statement read. “This is complete abdication of duty. He must resign immediately.”

The party accused the government of habitual negligence and said the blast, coupled with recent arms seizures in Haryana’s Faridabad, showed a pattern of “systemic breakdown” in internal security.

“These are not isolated incidents. What was once restricted to border areas has now reached the national capital,” the AITC said, calling the situation “a direct failure of the BJP government.”

AITC leaders reminded reporters of a series of terror attacks that occurred under BJP rule — from Pathankot and Uri in 2016 to Pulwama in 2019 and Pahalgam in 2025 — claiming that each reflected “gross intelligence and institutional failures.”

The party also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for leaving on a two-day visit to Bhutan “barely hours after the Delhi blast.”

“Even after 12 people died, the Prime Minister went ahead with his foreign trip. Is there no shame? Is there no responsibility toward citizens?” AITC leaders said.

Citing the 2023 Parliament breach and the Manipur violence, the party said India’s internal security apparatus had “collapsed under the weight of BJP’s propaganda politics.”

“This government is obsessed with spectacle, not safety. The nation deserves leadership, not excuses,” the statement added.

AITC concluded its briefing by reiterating its demand for Amit Shah’s resignation and calling on Parliament to debate what it termed “the BJP’s institutional failure in protecting citizens.”