TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee addresses a ballot marketing campaign rally in Bengal. (PTI)
TMC mentioned a number of BJP leaders, together with occasion state Dilip Ghosh, have been ”instigating” violence with their warnings of extra Cooch Behar-like episodes.
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- Last Updated:April 13, 2021, 07:01 IST
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The TMC on Monday urged the Election Commission to take strict motion towards BJP leaders who allegedly made inflammatory remarks over the Cooch Behar firing incident that claimed the lives of ”4 unarmed civilians”, shortly earlier than the ballot panel barred occasion supremo Mamata Banerjee from campaigning for 24 hours. In a letter to West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Ariz Aftab, the occasion mentioned a number of BJP leaders, together with occasion state Dilip Ghosh, have been ”instigating” violence with their warnings of extra Cooch Behar-like episodes.
Amid the polling for the fourth section of meeting elections on Saturday, 4 individuals have been killed in Sitalkuchi space of Cooch Behar when CISF personnel opened fireplace allegedly after coming below assault from locals who had ”tried to snatch their rifles”. Citing the primary occasion, the letter mentioned, ”On April 11, 2021, at a rally in Baranagar, Dilip Ghosh mentioned individuals have seen what occurred at Sitalkuchi and warned that if anybody oversteps boundary, the incident of Sitalkuchi shall be repeated. An official grievance has already been lodged with the CEO.” The letter, signed by TMC MPs Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Derek O’Brien, additionally has point out of comparable remarks made by BJP leaders Rahul Sinha and Sayantan Basu.
It additionally hooked up a screenshot of a tweet by BJP vice- president Arjun Singh and mentioned that the saffron occasion chief had tried to ”unfold misinformation” by allegedly sharing {a photograph} of a CISF personnel injured in a langur assault in Jharkhand as an image taken in Sitalkuchi. The tweet was additionally reposted by saffron occasion heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari.
”The prime brass of the BJP has been actively condoning the homicide and overtly suggesting that extra harmless lives ought to have been misplaced by the hands of central armed police forces,” the TMC mentioned. The occasion demanded that ”applicable authorized motion, together with legal proceedings, be taken towards Ghosh, Sinha, Basu and others for their inflammatory statements”.
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