Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandopadhyay on Monday attacked the BJP Government for targeting the Mamata-Banerjee Government by raising law and order issues which were purely a State subject. Bandopadhyaya’s comments came against the backdrop of the Union Home Ministry issuing ten advisories to the Bengal Government allegedly on its disturbed law and order situations. The advisories came in a span of ten days, sources said.
“Why the Centre is targeting Bengal Government again and again?” he asked mentioning the issuance of repeated advisories. Though he would not give details about the central communiqués sources in the Bengal Government said “it all contain law and order issues which is out and out a State subject.”
Reacting to the situation a senior minister in the State Government alleged how the BJP and CPI(M) were trying to malign Mamata Banerjee personally and administratively. “First they try to attack her personally and if they fail in that they attack her Government,” the Minister said.
Violent clashes between a defensive Trinamool Congress and an aggressively assertive BJP have left more than a dozen people dead post general elections which saw the saffron outfit winning 18 out of 42 seats leaving 22 for the State ruling outfit. The Congress won two seats.
There was more violence even on Monday with bands of hooligans attacking the Bhatpara Municipality with bombs and bricks smashing its interiors and vandalising the hospital premises within the municipality campus forcing the patients undergoing treatment to literally flee for their lives.
Clashes also took place at Patrasayar in Bankura district and Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas where about a dozen people from both the sides were injured. Clashes and bloodshed were reported between the supporters of Trinamool Congress ChhatraParishad and Akhil Vidyarthi Parishad at Garbeta, Keshpur and parts of East Mindapore sources said.
Meanwhile, in an unrelated development that could cause further embarrassment to the Trinamool Congress the Enforcement Directorate has issued summons to TMC MP from Birbhum Shatabdi Roy for her alleged role in the Sharada chit fund scam. Notices have also been issued to former MP Kunal Ghosh, businessman Sandhir Agarwal, and two top Bengali cine stars, sources said.