New Delhi: A day after sweeping the West Bengal panchayat elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP for sending a fact-finding committee to look at circumstances of violence in the course of the polls, calling them “provocation committees” as an alternative.
She berated the central occasion for not sending such a mission to violence-wracked Manipur and even Assam throughout protests towards the Nationwide Register of Residents (NRC).
“What number of commissions visited these locations? However inside two years, near 154 groups have visited West Bengal. These are BJP’s provocation committees, not fact-finding committees. It’s unlucky that so many died (in the course of the panchayat polls). They have been victims of circumstances. I’ve instructed the police to take motion,” Banerjee mentioned Wednesday.
The three-tier rural council polls have been beset with political violence from the day the elections have been notified.
The Trinamool emphatically received the elections, whereas BJP got here a distant second, although gained each seats and vote share.
Banerjee additionally mentioned the kin of the 19 who had died would every be given Rs 2 lakh compensation and a particular house guard’s job.
“Of the 19, 10 have been from the Trinamool. We is not going to differentiate on the premise of political allegiance,” she added.
The chief minister mentioned of the 71,000 cubicles within the state the place elections have been held, violence was reported solely from 60. “I’m saddened on the lack of lives and am giving free hand to the police to take motion towards perpetrators,” she mentioned.
In the meantime, the BJP’s four-member fact-finding committee toured the state on Wednesday. Senior chief Ravi Shankar Prasad, who headed the group, instructed the media: “What sort of election is held by your administration and police, Mamata Banerjee? Such incidents happened 15 to twenty years in the past in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Violence has stopped even there.”
Prasad claimed that 48 folks had died since polls have been introduced. “Even the Excessive Courtroom and the Supreme Courtroom needed to intervene,” Prasad mentioned.
Final evening, Mamata Banerjee in a Fb submit thanked the folks for his or her “large help and love”, including that the outcomes of the panchayat elections had as soon as once more proved that her occasion “reigned within the hearts of the Bengali folks”.
Elections to the three-tier rural councils – the gram panchayats, panchayat samitis and zila parishads – have been held on 8 July and counting began on the 11th.
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