Saugat said, people’s trust will be lifted from us
Saugata Roy told a TV news channel that incidents of violence should have been avoided as it sends a wrong message to the public. What is happening is not good. If such incidents keep happening, people will lose faith in us. He had created a flutter ahead of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation elections last year by saying that the party would not accept the use of violence during this period as the TMC had to pay a heavy price during the 2018 panchayat elections.
When asked what was the main reason for the violence during the civic polls, Roy said, “We will win on the basis of the work done by the TMC, there is no need to resort to violence.” Maybe it’s a craving for power or some other reason, I don’t know. I don’t know whether the message of zero tolerance against violence has reached the grassroots level. Roy said he was not aware of any message of zero tolerance towards violence by top party leaders during this time’s civic polls. Roy, who was recently removed from the party’s national working committee, is close to TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and had supported the idea of one man, one post in the party backed by next generation leaders.
There was widespread violence, rigging and clashes with police in different parts of Bengal from north to south in one of the most elaborate election program in the state since the assembly elections last year. The opposition BJP had termed the election process a mockery of democracy and called for a 12-hour bandh on Monday to protest the violence. The TMC termed the allegations as baseless and said that the opposition parties are looking for excuses sensing the defeat. The counting of votes will take place on March 2.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury raised the matter in front of Om Birla
Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has accused the ruling TMC in West Bengal of preventing him from performing his duties as a public representative and urged Speaker Om Birla to take up the matter with the authorities concerned. . West Bengal Congress president Choudhary, in a letter to Birla, alleged that goons of the ruling TMC in the presence of the local police were creating obstacles for him during the municipal elections. He cited several incidents where Congress candidates, including women, were allegedly brutally thrashed and forced to withdraw their nominations or not come out for campaigning in municipal elections in her constituency, Behrampur.
Chowdhary told PTI that TMC goons are harassing and humiliating me in public and I am being prevented from discharging duties as an MP. I am being obstructed in performing my duties as a public representative. He alleged that he was being stopped from helping people in distress so that an environment could be created that people are not trusting me. He alleged that whenever I go out to help Congress workers in distress, I am stopped, gheraoed and surrounded by goons of the ruling party who are starting a reign of terror in collaboration with the local police. .
Controversy over calling West Bengal Assembly session
Meanwhile, the controversy over convening the West Bengal Assembly session for the Budget session continued on Tuesday as the state’s Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar directed the chief secretary to follow the decision of the state cabinet seeking to convene the House on March 7. Respond in writing to the marked flawed process. The cabinet on Monday sent a fresh resolution to the governor calling for the assembly to be called at 2 pm on March 7, when Dhankhar called the House at 2 pm that day on the basis of a communication that had been sent to him earlier.
State officials had said that the 2 pm timing was a typographical error in the proposal sent by the cabinet and it should have been 2 pm. Dhankhar tweeted – Chief Secretary Hari Krishna Dwivedi, who today called Hon’ble Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar in compliance with the Cabinet decision of 28 February regarding convening the Vidhan Sabha on 7th March at 2 pm, directed him to give written reply on the identified issues. has gone.