Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP, Left and the media for trying to tarnish the image of Bengal by raking up false charges on law and order situation of the State.
“There are some vested interests who for political reasons are out to malign the State Government and giving a bad name to the State for narrow political reasons … often small incidents are blown out of proportions showing our law and order situation in poor light …” Banerjee said adding in Bengal the police register complaints and take action on them whereas in UP, MP and other States they do not even act.
“What happened at Unnao or Hathras … How some journalists were snapped naked in MP because they were doing political stories not liked by the Government … in Bengal nothing of that sort happens … our police register complaints and act on them … still the BJP and CPI(M) are trying to tarnish the image of our State,” she said.
Claiming that a section of the media had teamed up with the opposition parties in their nefarious designs Banerjee said “we are following the television channels how they have been generating stories only on rape and other crimes as if there is no good news … sometimes these stories are not even true … our police will be told to keep a tab on these stories.”
She warned “I will take action against the perpetrators of crimes whenever they appear in the media if they are true … but if the reports are false then those making those false stories will be hauled up because such false news are nothing but hate stories … and the Supreme Court has a clear guideline against hate stories.”
Saying that repeated stories on rape only go on to embolden some people to commit such crimes she said “indirectly a section of the media is encouraging these people into committing more of such crimes.” The media was doing such false stories to gain TRP points she said warning such “cheap journalism” would not be tolerated in Bengal.