Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress Monday in a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah alleged that the MHA advisory to the West Bengal government is a “deep-rooted conspiracy” and an “evil ploy to grab power” in opposition-ruled states.
TMC secretary general and West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee said in the letter that the Ministry of Home Affairs has drawn conclusions without verifying the ground reality or taking a report from the state government.
“We have reason to believe that it is an evil ploy to grab power in states run by parties politically opposed to the BJP. Moreover, this is a deep-rooted conspiracy and game plan to malign the state government and capture the Bengal administration through undemocratic, unethical and unconstitutional means,” he said.
In the advisory sent to the West Bengal government on Sunday, the MHA had expressed “deep concern” over the continuing post-poll violence in the state and asked it to maintain law and order.
On Sunday night, the West Bengal government shot back a letter saying the situation in the state was “under control” and there was no failure on part of its law enforcement agencies.
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The advisory came in the backdrop of violence in Sandeshkhali on Saturday.
The BJP has claimed that five of their workers were killed whereas the ruling TMC claimed one was killed.
Instead of covering the current deadly violence in WB which took 4 lives — 3 of these BJP workers and 3 more missing — , you can trust the Print to look for controversy over a circular and try to gloss over the murder, mayhem and intimidation let loose by Mamta Banerjee’s govt.
Why is the Print maintainaing a DEAFENING silence?
Since your bread and butter business case for readership is to manufacture controversies, how about a discussion on whether the situation in WB is a fit case for invoking art 356 of the Constitution.
The Ministry of Home Affairs under Shah can use any trick in the book to destabilize opposition Govts.