Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday sought to know why a central staff was not despatched to probe the dying of a mother-daughter duo in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh throughout an eviction drive. The duo died allegedly due to self-immolation throughout an anti-encroachment drive in Kanpur’s Dehat district on February 13. Banerjee claimed that the drive in UP was being performed to evict “poor” individuals. “But no probe is instituted in such cases; why was no central team sent there?” she requested, whereas talking at a programme in Bankura. She asserted that her authorities offers land rights to the poor to guarantee their security.
Banerjee and her social gathering TMC have been vocal about central groups being despatched to West Bengal on varied points, with the newest ones being on mid-day meal distribution and MNREGA implementation within the state.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday ordered a magisterial inquiry into the dying of the mother-daughter duo in Kanpur Dehat throughout an anti-encroachment drive.
Claiming that the state was freed of ultra-Left terror beneath her social gathering’s rule, Banerjee mentioned that earlier individuals couldn’t exit of their houses within the affected Jangalmahal space, unfold throughout Bankura, Paschim Medinipur, Jhargram and Purulia districts, owing to depredations of the Maoists.
“Touchwood, no Maoist attack or ambush has taken place in the last 11 years and no one has had to stay indoors out of such fear,” she mentioned.
