Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Tuesday made a last minute amendment in his programme of visiting Chopra in North Dinajpur district to meet the victims of public flogging by a local TMC strongman and took a detour to Cooch Behar about two hundred kilometers away where he met some other victims. 

As expected the Chopra victims who were asked to come to Cooch Behar would not turn up to the Cooch Behar venue but the Governor met the victims of other atrocities allegedly perpetrated by the TMC men on the BJP workers, sources said.

Continuing post poll violence has afflicted a large part of Cooch Behar district where scores of BJP workers have been attacked and their houses looted and ransacked alleged TMC goons leading many of them to take shelter in the district party office.

“I am here not only as a Governor but as the friend of the unfriended poor...Violence has become a norm, rather than an exception. The responsibility lies with the (State) Home Minister. As Governor, it is my constitutional duty to see that the right to life is not tampered with...As Governor, I assure you that the Constitution and the rights of people are protected. The culture of violence has to go. Murders most fowl seen in most parts of West Bengal. Steps needed, will be taken effectively,” Bose who was expected to submit a report on his findings to the Centre said.Tajemul alias JCB — named apparently in consideration of his physical appearance — a TMC strongman charged with similar other incidents including the murder of a CPI(M) worker had a couple of days ago publicly flogged a couple for their extra-marital relationship.

The incident was soon dubbed by the BJP as a sample of Talibani rule being perpetrated by the Trinamool Congress in Bengal which a number of saffron leaders including Soumitra Khan an MP from Bishnupur termed an ominous signal of the State turning into a Muslim Rahstra so to say.

“In 10 years time Bengal will turn into a Muslim State,” Khan told in Delhi. While Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar called it a “Talibani rule being perpetrated by the Mamata Banerjee Government.”

However amid nationwide condemnation of the criminal act North Dinajpur police administration said, “efforts are being made from certain quarters to spread misinformation about  an incident in Chopra PS under Islampur PD (police district). The fact is, police have promptly identified and arrested one person who had publicly assaulted a lady.”

Meanwhile, more such events of public assault came to the fore with Bengal Opposition Leader

Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday informing about an “Episode 2 of street justice,” even as his party leadership alleged that “JCB” had in a similar incident delivered “public justice” by beating up another couple where the woman was almost beaten to unconsciousness.

A national BJP leader referred to “another shocking video of Tajemul Haque’s Talibani styled insaaf approximately from 15 days ago where yet another couple were flogged.”