Days after West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar wrote to Mamata Banerjee complaining about her “studied silence” on instances of post-election violence within the state, the chief minister Thursday focused the Central authorities saying there may be “no political violence” wherever in Bengal and that it’s all “BJP’s gimmick.”
She asserted that the claims made have been utterly “baseless”.
“There is no political violence going on in the state right now. There may have been one or two sporadic incidents, but those can’t be labelled as incidents of political violence,” she added.
The governor’s remarks got here a day after a delegation of BJP MLAs led by Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari met him to debate the alleged deterioration of legislation and order within the state. Meanwhile, Dhakar is presently in Delhi and can return on June 18.
In the letter, the governor wrote, “Such ‘punitive’ decimation of human rights and dignity shames democracy. In spite of your attention having been drawn to the enormity of situation, huge exodus of people in search of cover for life and destruction of property worth crores, there has only been stunning silence at your end and you did not deem it necessary to even deliberate this grave human tragedy in any of the cabinet meetings so far.”
The ruling Trinamool Congress hit again at Dhankhar for making “venomous and baseless comments”.
Banerjee additional slammed the BJP-led union authorities over its “efforts to control” Twitter and claimed that the Centre, having didn’t affect the microblogging platform, is now attempting to bulldoze it.
The comment comes within the wake of an intensified public spat between Twitter India and the federal government after Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad Wednesday mentioned the microblogging platform had “deliberately chosen” to not adjust to new middleman tips regardless of being given “multiple opportunities”.
Drawing a parallel, Banerjee mentioned her authorities, too, was being meted out the identical therapy by the Centre.
“I condemn it; they can’t control Twitter, so they are trying to bulldoze it. They (Centre) are trying to do so with everyone they are unable to manage. They can’t control me, and that is why they are trying to bulldoze my government, too,” Banerjee mentioned whereas speaking to reporters in Kolkata.
Earlier this week, the TMC authorities, whereas acknowledging reviews about folks being displaced from their houses within the wake of violence that adopted the declaration of Assembly election leads to West Bengal, had, nevertheless advised the Supreme Court that allegations that the state equipment was complicit within the violence are “false” and “misleading”.
This was in response to a discover issued by the highest courtroom on a PIL searching for its intervention “to stop” the “post-poll violence”, an SIT probe into the alleged crimes and for compensating and rehabilitating these “internally displaced” because of the violence.
Such allegations, the state mentioned, “are frivolous and politically motivated”.
The state authorities has additionally claimed that there was a stream of pretend information and morphed movies in regards to the state of affairs of post-poll violence in West Bengal on social media platforms.
With PTI inputs
