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 instances of violence through the polls, calling them “provocation committees” as an alternative.
She berated the central social gathering 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 (through the panchayat polls). They had been victims of circumstances. I’ve instructed the police to take motion,” Banerjee mentioned Wednesday.
The three-tier rural council polls had been beset with political violence from the day the elections had 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 residence guard’s job.
“Of the 19, 10 had 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 had 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 workforce, instructed the media: “What sort of election is held by your administration and police, Mamata Banerjee? Such incidents occurred 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 had been introduced. “Even the Excessive Court docket and the Supreme Court docket needed to intervene,” Prasad mentioned.
Final night time, Mamata Banerjee in a Fb put up thanked the folks for his or her “great assist and love”, including that the outcomes of the panchayat elections had as soon as once more proved that her social gathering “reigned within the hearts of the Bengali folks”.
Elections to the three-tier rural councils – the gram panchayats, panchayat samitis and zila parishads – had been held on 8 July and counting began on the 11th.
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