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KOLKATA: Alleging that the BJP nominees had uploaded a video showing images of the riots that took place in Kolkata in 1946 and subsequently in Bangladesh on social media, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy on Thursday said the saffron party was 'inciting one community against the another.' He alleged that BJP nominees from Tollygunge and Bhowanipore—Babul Supriyo and Rudranil Ghosh— had uploaded the video on the social media. "The BJP is inciting one community against the other and is planning to organise a communal riot just to get political mileage," Roy alleged. Coming down heavily on Amit Shah, Roy said the union Home minister was heard saying in an interview that BJP would control media which "was showing news against the party." Reacting sharply to a statement made by Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister of Utter Pradesh that if voted to power BJP would set up 'Romeo gang' in Bengal, Basu said: "The outsiders know nothing about Bengal..