KOLKATA: BJP leader Mukul Roy today said democracy was facing a "grave danger" in West Bengal under the Trinamool Congress TMC ) government as there was a "police raj" going on in the state.The newly-inducted BJP leader also said that the TMC did not have the mindset to grow into a national party. "It (TMC) boasts that it is the All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC), but can you cite one example of a state, apart from Bengal , where the TMC has a proper presence? The political space for the Opposition parties has shrunk in the last six years," he said in an interview to a Bengali television channel. "During the Left regime, they did not allow free-and-fair polls, but never did they try to curb the rights of the Opposition parties. Without the backing of the BJP, the TMC would have never gained its ground as a political force in Bengal," he claimed.

Source: Times of India November 06, 2017 17:15 UTC