A day after Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari was prevented from entering the Raj Bhavan along with the victims of the post-poll violence Bengal Governor C.V. Ananada Bose on Friday wrote to Chief Minister asking the reason behind the police action.
The police had earlier prevented Adhikari from entering the Raj Bhavan citing the enforcement of Section 144 CrPC in the area by the administration.
Reminding the Chief Minister that she may win elections but she cannot defeat law he said, that her high post notwithstanding, law was higher than her.
In his letter the Governor wrote:The Chief Minister cannot deface the Constitution of India. It is a dance of death, a macabre of what is happening in West Bengal. However high you may think you are, the law is above you.”
Post June 4 results reports of violence against opposition workers had been trickling in from all parts of the State with both the BJP and CPI(M) workers standing at the receiving end of the TMC violence.
“So much so that the workers have to be shifted from their native villages to the district party offices and even at various locations in Kolkata,” Adhikari on Friday iterated comparing the situation in Bengal to other States where life was functioning normally after the elections.
“Why should the people be attacked and killed for their political faith … why a man will be punished because he has been a booth agent of a BJP candidate … you may get an electoral victory but you cannot break laws for that reason,” Adhikari said.
CPI(M)’s Sujan Chakrabarty said there was no semblance of any law and order in Bengal. “Our party offices have been attacked and vandalised not only in the districts but also in proper Kolkata … electoral victory does not give you license to do whatever you want… now there will be resistance”.
Reports of violence had been coming in from Cooch Behar in North Bengal to Murshidabad, Birbhum, Bankura, Basirhat, Barasat in North 24 Parganas, Diamond harbor, Mathurapur and Canning in South 24 Parganas, sources said.
There were reports of violence from various parts of Capital Kolkata, sources said adding the attack on the political workers were taking place at the behest of senior TMC leadership.
