West Bengal Police Acting As “Workers Of Ruling Party”, Says Governor
Jagdeep Dhankhar stated opposition MPs and MLAs had been being focused by means of the police. (Document)
Kolkata:
Expressing fear over the alleged deterioration of regulation and order in West Bengal, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday stated the state police weren’t functioning in keeping with the principles, and suggested Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee to search out time and have interaction with him at the topic.
Taking to Twitter, the governor stated opposition MPs and MLAs had been being focused by means of the police, which “acts as staff of the ruling celebration”.
“Because the governor of the state, I’m extraordinarily nervous to peer this alarming decline within the regulation and order scenario within the state,” he stated in a video message.
Mr Dhankhar, who has been at loggerheads with the Trinamool Congress govt on a number of problems since he took rate because the governor of West Bengal a 12 months in the past, stated, “Public representatives and opposition celebration leaders are just about being hunted out of public area by means of the state police. That is undemocratic.”
Mr Dhankhar additionally claimed that individuals of parliament and meeting had been being ill-treated by means of the police.
“I’ve asked the honourable Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee to spare time and have interaction with me… We can’t come up with the money for to have police that doesn’t act in keeping with regulation however acts in a partisan method like a political employee of the ruling celebration,” he added.
A number of opposition leaders, together with the ones of the BJP, have within the contemporary previous claimed that they had been stopped from distributing aid subject matter to other folks hit by means of the COVID-19 pandemic and Cyclone Amphan.
Previous this month, a BJP MLA used to be discovered striking from the ceiling of a veranda outdoor a shuttered store close to his house in North Dinajpur district, following which the saffron celebration claimed that he used to be murdered.
The autopsy record, then again, mentioned that the “legislator died because of striking and no harm mark used to be discovered on his frame”.
