On Saturday, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) criticised the Trinamool Congress after Amrita Ekka's husband, Francis Ekka, was arrested in Darjeeling, West Bengal. He was caught with secret DRDO documents and a large amount of radioactive materials valued in crores.

Shehzad Poonawalla, the national spokesperson for the BJP, charged that the TMC was engaging in actions that endangered national security. “Dangerous nuclear material which is worth crores of rupees and DRDO documents which are confidential in nature were recovered from the house of a TMC leader. Francis Ekka, from whom these documents were recovered and this material was recovered happens to be the husband of a TMC leader in the Naxalbari Panchayat Samiti," Poonawalla said. Poonwala further added, "How can such kind of important national security documents and such material reach the house of a TMC leader? Isn't it proof of their anti-national antecedents and activities? How did the administration not know? Is it complicity or plain ignorance and incompetence? Either way, TMC has had a long history of compromising national interest for vote bank interest, compromising national and state interest for their private corrupt interests."

Poonawalla also continued by accusing TMC of providing shelter to "Rohingyas infiltrators and bomb makers" and asking for a comprehensive investigation into the matter. "We have seen the manner of corruption they have done. We have seen the patronage and shelter given to all kinds of elements like Rohingya infiltrators and bomb makers only so that they can do well in elections and now compromising with national security itself. Should the TMC not be made accountable? Should there not be a complete probe as to at what levels was this leader being protected from? Today a deep and thorough probe is required."

This comes after Ekka was taken into custody by the West Bengal Police during an army-led operation on Belgachi village in the Naxalbari block. "We found several confidential DRDO documents and a large quantity of radioactive Californium in his possession. The accused person failed to give any clear answer as to why those materials were with him," said the officer, mentioning market value of a gram of the seized material could be around Rs 17 crore. "The accused has been charged with smuggling sensitive DRDO documents and radioactive materials. He may have links to foreign organisations. He is being interrogated," he added.