According to sources, ED officers have been travelling in a automotive when the automobile was pelted with stones and its window panes damaged in the North 24 Parganas district on Thursday night time.
After ED officers travelling in a automobile allegedly got here beneath assault in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, BJP nationwide spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia on Friday launched a blistering assault on the ruling Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, claiming legislation and order have been coming aside on her watch in the state.
According to sources, ED officers have been travelling in a automotive when the automobile was pelted with stones and its window panes damaged in the North 24 Parganas district on Thursday night time.
Speaking on the incident on Friday, the BJP spokesperson stated two to 3 ED officers have been injured in the assault, claiming that it was carried out by the ruling Trinamool Congress ‘goons’ and Rohingya Muslims who crossed over into Bengal illegally. Addressing reporters at a press convention in the nationwide capital on Friday, the BJP chief claimed that CM Mamata was presiding over a ‘Jungle Raj’ (reign of issues) in the state.
“The ED officers, who were carrying out an investigation, came under attack by TMC goons and Rohingyas, who infiltrated Bengal. Jungle Raj is prevailing in West Bengal under the very nose of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,” the BJP chief stated. “Law and order have collapsed in Bengal but Mamata Banerjee is unmoved. Two to three ED officers were seriously injured in the incident,” Bhatia claimed.
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An Enforcement Directorate (ED) team was attacked and its automobile broken on Thursday night time at Sandeshkhali village of the North 24 Parganas. The assault occurred because the ED team was on the best way to hold out raids on the houses of block-level leaders of the TMC in reference to the alleged ration rip-off case, an official of the central probe company informed ANI.
The ED officers have been on the best way to raid the houses of former Bongaon Municipality chairman Shankar Adhya and TMC chief Sheikh Shahjahan in reference to the ration ‘rip-off’ case. Former state Food and Civil Supplies minister and TMC old-timer, Jyotipriya Mullick, was arrested and put behind bars earlier in reference to the case.
Voicing his outrage over the incident, West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday labelled the assault as ‘ghastly’ whereas summoning the Home Secretary and the Director General of Police (DGP). “It was a ghastly incident. It was alarming and deplorable. It is the duty of a civilised government to stop barbarism and vandalism in a democracy. If a government fails in its basic duty, the Constitution of India will take its course. I reserve all my constitutional options for (taking) appropriate action. This pre-election violence should find an early end, and let this be the beginning of that end,” the Bengal Governor stated, in a no-holds-barred takedown of the state administration.
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Later in the day, Governor Bose visited the ED officers, who sustained severe accidents in the assault and are presently beneath therapy at a hospital in Kolkata. An area TMC strongman, Sheikh Shahjahan can also be the Fisheries and Animal Resources officer of the North 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad and the get together’s block president of Sandeshkhali 1.
A member of the raiding ED team, stated, “Eight people arrived at the spot out of nowhere. They attacked three of us.” However, TMC MP Santanu Sen alleged that the officers of the federal company ‘provoked’ the locals, ensuing in a violent response.
“The officers of the central investigating agency, surrounded by central forces, provoked locals. Their actions provoked a response from the people,” he stated.
