In a sensational breakthrough the Bengal Police on Friday unearthed arms from an erstwhile Maoist-hit region of Goaltore in West Midnapore, district administration sources said.
About 30 muskets, electric wire and tin containers were found after the police acting on definite sources dug out a 40 feet area inside dense forests of Okhla in the Goaltore region.
The guns rapped in rags and plastic could have been buried about ten years ago and had rusted and become dysfunctional, senior officials said adding the finds would be sent for forensic testing. The police had to use JCB machines to excavate the area after some “specific information,” sources said.
Political gunfight resumed soon after the arms were unearthed even as senior Trinamool Congress MP Saugato Roy alleged “gong by the age of the arms it seems that they could have been buried by the CPI(M) harmads or maybe the Maoists … but the most likelihood is that the CPI(M) cadres might have buried them after their government went out of power,” reminding how “skeletons were dug out from the village of then CPI(M) minister Sushanto Ghosh.
Reacting vehemently to his suggestions CPI(M) Legislature Party Leader Sujan Chakrabarty said, it was high time the Trinamool Congress stopped spreading lies. “Talking about skeletons which had been planted by one of their leaders who is now in a BJP general secretary… and why could not they prove a single charge against the Left Government… so Sougato Roy being such a senior politician should stop peddling lies… The Left has suffered the maximum at the hands of the TMC-Maoist clique … they murdered hundreds of our cadres in cold blood.”
The BJP on the other hand said the guns might belong to the Maoists given the history of ultra-Left movement in Bengal however he would not rule out Trinamool Congress hand in the incident. “All angles musts be probed to get to the truth,” he said.