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Cong fact-finding team fails to meet WB CM, returns to Delhi
Kolkata May 26: The Congress fact-finding team, which had visited the trouble-torn Murshidabad and Malda districts in West Bengal recently, could not have a meeting with state Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee and returned to New Delhi to submit its report to the party high command.
Kolkata May 26: The Congress fact-finding team, which had visited the trouble-torn Murshidabad and Malda districts in West Bengal recently, could not have a meeting with state Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee and returned to New Delhi to submit its report to the party high command.
The party MP in the Rajya Sabha Jayanta Bhattacharya said that since the chief minister was busy with his party meeting he could not take out time for the AICC fact-finding team led by Santosh Mohan Deb yesterday.
''The team has returned to New Delhi to submit its report on CPI(M)'s atrocities on the Congress workers particularly in those two North Bengal districts to the party high command Sonia Gandhi'', Bhattacharya said. The state PCC, meanwhile, demanded security for its 33 zilla parishad members in Murshidabad district, expressing fear that the CPI(M) would might to kidnap or harm them to win an 'artificial majority' in forming the board after the recent panchayat elections.
The WBPCC president Pranab Mukherjee earlier said that another team would visit Sabang in Midnapore East where Congress candidates who won the recent panchayat polls have been 'mercilessly' beaten up by CPI(M) activists. Stating that there was a 'pattern' in the post-panchayat poll violence in West Bengal, he alleged ruling front major CPI(M) was resorting to violence even against daily wage earners if they were supporters of the opposition parties.
Bureau Report
''The team has returned to New Delhi to submit its report on CPI(M)'s atrocities on the Congress workers particularly in those two North Bengal districts to the party high command Sonia Gandhi'', Bhattacharya said. The state PCC, meanwhile, demanded security for its 33 zilla parishad members in Murshidabad district, expressing fear that the CPI(M) would might to kidnap or harm them to win an 'artificial majority' in forming the board after the recent panchayat elections.
The WBPCC president Pranab Mukherjee earlier said that another team would visit Sabang in Midnapore East where Congress candidates who won the recent panchayat polls have been 'mercilessly' beaten up by CPI(M) activists. Stating that there was a 'pattern' in the post-panchayat poll violence in West Bengal, he alleged ruling front major CPI(M) was resorting to violence even against daily wage earners if they were supporters of the opposition parties.
Bureau Report