By PTI
KOLKATA: The bloodbath in West Bengal’s Birbhum final week, which left 9 lifeless, has additionally laid naked the fault traces within the state’s ruling camp because the get together’s district president Anubrata Mondal on Thursday stated that he had needed to take away Anarul Hossain, arrested within the case, from all organisational posts, however was stopped by native MLA Ashis Banerjee.
Last week, eight individuals had been burnt alive, whereas one other succumbed to her accidents later, in Bogtui village close to Rampurhat city of the district within the suspected fallout of a TMC panchayat official’s homicide.
Hossain, the president of Rampurhat block-1, was arrested days after the bloodbath from Tarapith space within the district.
“I was keen on removing Anarul from all organisational posts he held in the party. I had received several complaints against him. However, local MLA and state minister Ashis Banerjee requested me to retain him at least till the panchayat polls. Banerjee is a senior leader,” Mondal instructed reporters.
Banerjee, on his half, stated he did so maintaining in thoughts the “interest of the organisation”.
“I had made the request only after speaking to local leaders. It was an organisational decision,” he stated.
TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh declined to touch upon the matter, stating that he wouldn’t be capable of make any comment earlier than speaking to native leaders.
The BJP, nevertheless, stated such statements from TMC leaders present that the get together was making an attempt to interact in a blame recreation to divert consideration from the difficulty at hand.
“Everybody knows that Anubrata Mondal is the most powerful person in Birbhum. The kind of statements and counter statements that are coming from the TMC camp only prove that its leaders are trying to save their own skin,” state BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya added.
In the same vein, CPI(M) state secretary Mohammed Salim stated the TMC, as a substitute of combating throughout the get together, ought to learn how the incident occurred.
“The TMC is now engaged in infighting, it should rather reveal who allowed this carnage to take place,” Salim added.
