The Trinamool Congress demanded intervention of the West Bengal governor Viren J Shah into the alleged police highhandedness against party legislators during their dharna in front of chief minister's chamber in writers' buildings on Wednesday.
The party's policy-making body chairman Pankaj Banerjee led a 13-member Trinamool Congress delegation to the governor at Raj Bhavan and lodged complaints against the police for 'harassing and assaulting' the legislators during a 'democractic movement' inside the state secretariat. Banerjee, the opposition leader in the state assembly, said that the delegation also drew the governor's attention to 'deteriorating' law and order and the government's inept handling of the cases of abduction of businessmen and industrialists, besides recurring violence and killing of Trinamool Congress activists in the state. He said that the governor had assured the delegation of suitable action. Meanwhile, Banerjee said that his scheduled meeting with the chief minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee at the writers' buildings on Wednesday had been postponed at his request.
The opposition leader said that he would leave for Kharibari in north 24-parganas district on Thursday to meet 'victims of CPI(M) atrocities'.
I think my visit to the affected village, where 12 houses were torched by Marxist goons recently, should be given more importance than keeping an appointment with the chief minister on Thursday, he said.
Bureau Report