Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday mentioned she is saddened on the lack of lives in ‘sporadic’ incidents of violence throughout rural polls. Banerjee additionally asserted that her authorities has given a free hand to the police to take motion towards these behind the violence.
“I am saddened at the loss of lives in sporadic incidents of violence during panchayat elections… The polls were held in 71,000 booths, but incidents of violence took place in not more than 60 booths,” she mentioned.
The chief minister claimed that 19 folks, principally from her TMC, died in poll-related violence because the election date was introduced on June 8.
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Police sources, nonetheless, have put the variety of fatalities at 37.
“I am giving police free hand to act against those behind the violence,” she informed reporters on the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’.
Banerjee additionally appealed for peace and concord within the aftermath of the polls.
Mamata Banerjee’s politics is filled with atrocities: BJP on Panchayat ballot violence
Senior BJP chief Ravi Shankar Prasad on Wednesday criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for letting free a reign of terror in the course of the rural polls and puzzled why the central management of the Congress and the Left are silent on it.
A four-member BJP fact-finding crew to West Bengal, led by the previous Union minister, mentioned the state unit’s demand for implementing Article 355 is “justifiable”.
“We had immense respect for Mamataji when she defeated the 34-year-old Left regime in the state. Today, I want to gently remind Mamataji about her evolution in Bengal and national politics. She was a fighter. But unfortunately, her government has crossed even the records of the Left regarding misrule, anarchy and lawlessness in the state,” he mentioned.
The BJP chief informed reporters, “Her (Mamata Banerjee) politics is now full of atrocities, which was not evident even during the Left rule.”
“Why are so many people being killed? Why so much violence across the state? Is this not the responsibility of the state administration to ensure free and fair polls? This was once the scenario of Bihar, but the state, too, has moved ahead. Mamata Banerjee has shamed democracy in Bengal,” he mentioned.
Hitting out on the opposition assembly in Patna, Prasad puzzled why the CPI(M) and the Congress brass are silent on the continuing violence.
“The opposition parties, including Mamata Banerjee, were vocal about BJP posing a threat to the democracy in the country. I want to ask Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury for their silence on the killings in West Bengal. Even their party cadres are being beaten up, so why are they silent?” he questioned.
Prasad mocked the TMC boss over her social media publish concerning the get together’s victory in rural polls and puzzled whether or not Banerjee is “afraid to face the media”.
“She conducts press conferences at the drop of a hat. This time she has refrained from interacting with the media as she knows the truth behind the violence and blood-smeared rural polls,” he mentioned.
The BJP MP from neighbouring Patna hoped that the fact-finding crew could be allowed to go to the violence-hit areas of the state.
When requested to touch upon calls for by BJP chief to impose Article 355 in West Bengal, the previous Union legislation minister mentioned, “Article 355 says the Centre must convey to the state that governance is done as per the mandate of the Constitution.”
“The Centre will look into the governor’s report and then take a call accordingly. But this is a justifiable demand,” he mentioned.
The TMC mocked the fact-finding crew and mentioned it was an try and divert consideration from the get together’s humiliating defeat.
“They should first send a fact-finding team to Manipur, which has been burning for the last two months. The BJP’s fact-finding team in West Bengal is an attempt to divert attention from its own organisational failure,” TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned.
