Kolkata:
Former chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s automobile allegedly got here underneath an assault in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district as we speak. Unidentified goons attacked her automobile with bricks and stones, she has alleged, in what she claimed may have even killed her. The state BJP has criticised the assault and denied any function within the violence.
Banerjee confronted protests in Halisahar on her strategy to the home of a celebration employee who allegedly died in police custody. The protesters surrounded the Trinamool chief’s automobile, smeared mud on it, and allegedly threw footwear and water bottles. “Chor bhagao” slogans hire the air because the police have been seen attempting to push again the protesters.
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Banerjee later instructed reporters that she may have if the bricks and stones hit her. “Anti-socials from exterior threw stones at my automobile in entrance of the police. If my automobile home windows weren’t closed, it may have break up my head open. I may have died. I’ve by no means confronted such an assault. The police did nothing to guard us. They provide safety solely to the BJP,” she stated.
Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee and Rajya Sabha MP Dola Sen, who have been accompanying Banerjee, too vented their anger towards the administration.
“(Chief Minister) Suvendu Adhikari is operating the present utilizing the police,” the Lok Sabha MP stated.
State BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya, who has all the time maintained that he wouldn’t tolerate any violence by occasion employees, condemned the assault on the previous chief minister. He stated the BJP was not related to the incident and that the police should take motion towards these accused.
The alleged assault comes months after Banerjee’s nephew and Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee confronted an assault in his personal constituency, following his occasion’s resounding defeat in West Bengal elections.
Mamata Banerjee was within the North 24 Parganas district this morning to go to the household of Birju Keot, the husband of a former Trinamool councillor who had allegedly died in police custody.
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Keot was arrested on extortion prices and despatched to 5 days of police custody by a court docket final Friday. Jenny Sharma, former councillor of the Kanchrapara municipality, had alleged that her husband was tortured and crushed to dying within the lock-up.
Abhishek Banerjee slammed the police and alleged that Keot was picked up by the police regardless of his title not being within the FIR.
“When the State can take a person into custody regardless of his title not showing within the FIR – and he doesn’t come out alive – the query is not merely about legislation and order. It’s in regards to the rule of legislation itself,” the Trinamool chief stated.
The police are but to answer the custodial dying allegations.
