Kolkata : As post-poll violence continued across West Bengal, state Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi today wrote to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, asking her to take prompt and strict action to check such incidents.
“In the letter Tripathi said law and order enforcing mechanism in the state should be suitably instructed to take prompt and strict action irrespective of political affiliation to deter such attacks,” a statement issued from the Raj Bhawan said. The Governor also appealed to “all sections of society and political parties not to take recourse to violence and take part in the democratic process peacefully,” the statement read.
Tripathi has also reports on attacks on Trinamool Congress activists, the statement said. The Left Front and the Congress today unitedly paid a visit to the Governor and submitted a memorandum over the post poll-violence across the state.
A team of state BJP leaders, including party president Dilip Ghosh, had also met the Governor on Saturday and submitted a memorandum regarding post-poll violence in the state.
BJP MARCH FOILED: Meanwhile, senior BJP leaders, accompanied by over a hundred party workers, today unsuccessfully tried to march towards Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s residence to protest against the attack on party leader Rupa Ganguly allegedly by TMC workers.
The police were present in strength at Hazra crossing in south Kolkata where BJP leaders, including former Bengal unit chief Rahul Sinha and present chief Dilip Ghosh, held a rally before attempting to march towards the Chief Minister’s residence in the nearby Kalighat.
The police stopped the rally, also attended by Rupa Ganguly and Locket Chatterjee, at Asutosh Mukherjee Road.
“We came here to meet the Chief Minister and tell her about the continuing post-poll violences in the state. But the police stopped us… But I will advise them (police) that instead of stopping us they must go and stop the goons,” the BJP state chief said.
He also said the BJP would launch protest-demonstrations in districts if the state administration does not take “proper steps on post-poll violence”. Ghosh said the party was considering to boycott Mamata Banerjee’s swearing-in ceremony on May 27 and observe it as “Kala Diwas” (black day). “We may also call a bandh on that day,” Ghosh said. —PTI
