A day after declaring that a three-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress will tour trouble torn Mon district of Nagaland the party on Monday called off its visit to the North Eastern State saying the situation was not conducive for travelling to that State.
A party delegation of the Trinamool Congress was scheduled to visit the Mon district of Nagaland where innocent villagers killed by the security forces but we were told that the area has been put under Section 144 … and that we will not be allowed to go outside the airport,” TMC MP Shantanu Sen said.
“From Jorhat we were scheduled to go further 75 miles but we were not assured any security by the administration … and we were also told that the delegation will be detained at the airport … We were going to that State to stand by the families of the people who were killed in the firing,” he said adding “we do not want the BJP to earn political points by alleging that the TMC is trying to politicising an issue that concerns national security.”
Earlier, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Shusmita Dev too attacked the BJP government for killing the people at will. Demanding Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation for failing to provide security to the citizens of the country she asked as to what Shah was doing when the innocent people were being killed. “The Home Minister should resign owning moral responsibility for the entire episode …,” she said. Meanwhile hitting back at the TMC for calling off its Nagaland trip Bengal BJP president Sukanto Majumdar on Monday said that the Bengal ruling outfit had declared the trip out of excitement but knowing that they would not be welcomed in Nagaland they decided to caned the trip.
“Why did not go ahead with the tour … they cancelled their trip because they knew that they will not be welcomed their … they knew that they were only going to earn political mileage from a sad incident,” Majumdar said.
Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari on the other hand lashed out at the TMC for compromising with national security by raising issues which that should be raised in the national interest. “The TMC has almost sold out this region … now they are trying to play dirty politics with other states without having any concern for the country’s national security,” he said.
The Left Front however criticized the TMC for dropping the tour saying “they did not visit Nagaland because there is no civic election there like Tripura … where they went to divide the opposition vote and help the BJP.”