After eight people were killed in violence following the death of a Trinamool Congress worker in a village in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she was not justifying the killings and would visit Rampurbhat on Thursday. . “I will visit Rampurhat tomorrow. This is not UP. We had also sent our delegation to Hathras. However, they were stopped from entering the spot,” alleged Banerjee.
Condemning the incident, Banerjee said, “no one will be spared” and alleged that it is “a big conspiracy as some people are trying to defame West Bengal.”
“The government is ours, we are concerned about the people of our state. We never want anyone to be hurt. The incidents of Birbhum, Rampurhat are unfortunate. I have immediately dismissed the Officer-in-Charge, Sub-Divisional Police Officer.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah has constituted a five-member fact finding committee to probe the incident and has sought a report from the West Bengal government in the next 72 hours.
Opposition parties have claimed that TMC is behind the incident, a charge denied by the ruling party. The BJP raised the issue in the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday and staged a walkout. The party legislators termed the incident as “middle-age barbarity”, demanding a statement from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the cause of the violence and the steps being taken. The party also demanded Banerjee’s resignation. State BJP president Sukanta Majumdar said Banerjee had lost her moral right to be the CM. “We are demanding the resignation of Chief Minister and state Home Minister Mamata Banerjee. It is not clear whether the state government is running the circus or the government,” Majumdar said.
TMC general secretary Kunal Ghosh said the incident had nothing to do with politics. “The death of local people in the fire incident is sad. But this incident has no political connection. This is a dispute of the local village. The Panchayat Uppramukh who was killed was a well-known figure and his death angered the villagers, leading to violent protests. The fire incident happened in the night but the police and fire brigade took immediate action,” Ghosh said in a tweet in Bangla.
Two children were also among the eight killed in the Birbhum incident. Eight houses caught fire in Bogtui village near Rampurhat town of Birbhum district. West Bengal Director General of Police Manoj Malviya said the incident happened soon after the alleged murder of TMC leader Bhadu Sheikh, deputy head of the local panchayat.
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