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NATION MAY 07, 2021 | The Indian Eye 8

POst-electiOn POlitics:

Mamata and Modi govts lock

horns over violence

TMC and BJP accuse each other of violence;

Mamata says Center playing politics and not paying attention to pandemic

Our Bureau
New Delhi

he election is over but
politics is getting more
Tintense and dirtier in
West Bengal as reports of vio-
lence come from some parts of
the state. The BJP is accusing
the TMC government of allow-
ing attacks on its supporters.
But Mamata Banerjee said on
Wednesday that violence and
clashes were taking place in
those areas where the BJP won
the elections. Banerjee said that
most of the videos of violence
being shared on social media
were either fake or old. “I have
noticed that violence and clash-
es are taking place in those ar-
eas where the BJP have won the
elections. These places can be
seen as black spots,” she said.
The chief minister said that
when these incidents happened,
the law and order was under the
Election Commission. “The law TMC supremo takes oath as Chief Minister of West Bengal, at Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Wednesday. She was
and order in West Bengal deteri- administered the oath by Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. (ani Photo)
orated in the last three months.
There were some sporadic inci- senior officials of the state A day after she was sworn in Covid-19 in the state.
dents and not all were real, most government, including Chief as the chief minister, Mamata But Bharatiya Janata Par-
were fake. BJP is showing old Secretary Alapan Bandyopad- Banerjee attacked the BJP and ty (BJP) President JP Nadda,
videos,” she claimed. hyay and Home Secretary HK the Centre for sending national who is on a two-day visit to
“I will appeal to all political Dwidevi on the present law and teams and ministers to the state West Bengal to take stock of the
parties to stop this. You have order situation. She said that all even after the results have come post-poll violence, on Wednes-
been torturing people since the the district magistrates and SPs out. “They should be spending day said that Mamata Banerjee
elections and now, stop this. were asked to strictly deal with time in Covid-19 hospitals, but has started her third term as
Or else, law will take its course. any emerging situation. they are coming here and pro- chief minister with blood on her
Bengal is a land of peace, heri- The state government also voking people. This is because hands.
tage and here we stay in peace reinstated Virender, who is they have not accepted the peo- Briefing the mediapersons,
with people from every section about to retire at the end of this ple’s verdict. The new govern- the BJP chief said, “The man-
of the society,” she added. month, as the Director General ment is not even a day old and ner in which massacre and
Hours after taking oath as of Police and Jawed Shamim as they are sending teams, letters brutal killings took place and
the chief minister, Banerjee the ADG (Law and Order), the and their leaders,” she said, the manner in which the act-
held a top-level meeting with chief minister said. blaming the BJP for spreading Continued on next page... >>

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