Coochbehar (WB): The district Congress
has filed a complaint against West Bengal Chief Minister
Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee accusing him of making "provocative"
speech at a public meeting here.
Alleging the police higher-ups failed to initiate
follow-up action after the complaint by him was lodged
yesterday, president of district Youth Congress Avijit Dey
Bhaumik today demanded police inquiry into the complaint at
the earliest.
SP Kalyan Bandyopadhyay said on-duty sub-inspector
at Kotwali police station Swapan Deb noted the complaint
against the Chief Minister without consulting higher officials
and he has asked DSP (Sadar) to inquire the circumstances
behind the duty officer recording the complaint.
Demanding no action should be taken against the junior
officer "as he acted within the law," YC supporters
demonstrated in front of the SP`s office today.
Joining the fray, district Trinamool Congress
vice-president Niranjan Dutta said the TC would hold
demonstrations for the rest of the month protesting against
the speech of Bhattacharjee on February 13. The TC also
demanded no action should be taken against the duty officer.
Special IGP (North Bengal), D T Lepcha promised to
look into the matter.
On February 13, Bhattacharjee warned the Trinamool not
to foment trouble in West Bengal and called upon the Leftist
workers to give a fitting reply if TC continued to tread "this
path".
PTI
