Kolkata: The swearing-in of Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee as chief minister at Raj Bhavan on Wednesday morning will be a low-key programme, scheduled to be held at round 10.45 am, given the continued COVID-19 pandemic. Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar mentioned that only some invitees will be current on the programme due to the continued COVID-19 disaster.
Invitations for the programme have been despatched to her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, chief of Opposition of the outgoing House Abdul Mannan and CPI(M) veteran chief Biman Bose, mentioned an official on Tuesday.
Chief ministers of different states and leaders of different political events haven’t been invited for the programme retaining in thoughts the present COVID-19 state of affairs within the nation, the official informed PTI.
“It has been decided to keep the oath-taking ceremony of Mamata Banerjee a very simple one because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Banerjee will be the only leader who will be taking oath tomorrow. The programme will be a very brief one,” PTI quoted the official as saying. BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has additionally been invited for the ceremony, the official mentioned.
Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, ballot strategist Prashant Kishor and get together chief Firhad Hakim are doubtless to be current on the ceremony scheduled to be held on the Raj Bhavan at round 10.45 am on May 5, TMC sources mentioned.
The TMC has come to energy for the third time in a row in West Bengal, pocketing 213 of the 292 meeting seats that went to polls. The BJP has bagged 77 seats.
Notably, a day after the Trinamool Congress emerged victorious within the West Bengal Assembly elections, a number of incidents of violence that allegedly left many BJP employees lifeless and injured had been reported in West Bengal on Sunday.
Earlier on Monday, the Ministry of Home Affairs has sought a report from the state authorities on the post-election violence “targeting opposition political workers in the state”.
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday took cognisance of the alleged post-poll violence in West Bengal and ordered an investigation fact-finding staff to conduct a spot inquiry and submit a report on the earliest, ideally inside two weeks.
In a press release, the NHRC identified allegations of deaths of some individuals within the violent incidents. “The political workers allegedly clashed with each other, party offices were torched down and some homes were ransacked & valuables also looted. District Administration & local Law & order enforcement agencies appear not to have acted to stop such violation of human rights of the affected persons,” the fee mentioned.
The NHRC additional mentioned, “Considering as a fit case of alleged violation of Right to Life of the innocent citizens, the Commission has today taken suo-motu cognizance of the matter and has requested its DIG (Investigation) to constitute a team of the officers of the Investigation Division of the Commission to conduct an on the spot fact-finding investigation and to submit a report at the earliest, preferably within two weeks.”
(With Agency Inputs)
