Ram Navami clashes: Fact-finding team calls for NIA probe in West Bengal

BJP alleged that since the administration has a lot of things to hide, they prevented members of the fact-finding team from reaching those pockets in Howrah and Hooghly districts

BJP alleged that since the administration has a lot of things to hide, they prevented members of the fact-finding team from reaching those pockets in Howrah and Hooghly districts
BJP alleged that since the administration has a lot of things to hide, they prevented members of the fact-finding team from reaching those pockets in Howrah and Hooghly districts

There were not adequate police forces when the trouble broke out in these pockets, says the fact-finding team

On Sunday evening the members of a fact-finding team of Delhi-based NGO “Fact Finding Committee on Human Rights Violation” said that the clashes over Ram Navami processions in West Bengal’s Howrah and Hooghly districts call for an investigation by the National Investigation Agency (NIA).

After being restricted by police on Sunday afternoon from going to Shibpur and Kazipara in Howrah, where clashes broke out over Ram Navami processions on March 30 and continued till the next day, the members of the fact-finding team came back to Kolkata and talked to the media persons.

“Despite being restricted in reaching the troubled spots in Howrah district on Sunday and to Rishra in Hooghly district on Saturday, we somehow interacted with some of the local people. What we heard from them is quite shameful. There were inadequate police forces when trouble broke out in these pockets. The administration is playing the ‘me & you‘ game. This is a perfect case for an NIA-level probe. At the same time, Central Armed Forces personnel should also be deployed there,” a team member said.

Meanwhile, a political slugfest has started over the police denial to the members of the fact-finding team to reach the troubled spots at Hooghly on Saturday and after that at Howrah on Sunday.

According to the Trinamool Congress’ state General Secretary and party spokesman Kunal Ghosh, the police had done the right thing by denying them permission. “Since Ram Navami, BJP has been trying to create problems in those areas by using the outsiders,” he said.

BJP’s state spokesman Samik Bhattacharya alleged that since the administration has a lot of things to hide, they prevented the fact-finding team members from reaching those pockets in Howrah and Hooghly districts.

[With Inputs from IANS]

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3 COMMENTS

  1. What makes the Modi Government maintain stiffening silence & sickening sloth selectively toward Sanatani subjugation & smothering? What fires it up, in complete contrast, to react positively with lightning speed and execute instantly soothing remedy regarding Abrahamic street vetoing turbulence?

    The above sequence of events is becoming, day by day, all too frequent & predictable. It is, now, almost all too evident that the BJP-RSS juggernaut is remorselessly rolling over Sanatanis and crushing them under in its rush to Abrahamic appeasement.

    The so-called left-liberal opposition parties have been rendered into collective stupor, seeing that Modi has reigned in all their machinations and been rolling on with mindless momentum on tracts leading to electoral wins one after another.

    • Correction to the above Comment:
      Please re-read the last Para above, as below:

      The so-called left-liberal opposition parties have been rendered into collective stupor, by Modi who has taken over the reins of all their machinations and has been rolling on with mindless momentum on propagandized tracts leading to electoral wins one afer another.

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