West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tore right into a fact-locating crew whose conclusions approximately the latest violence all through Ram Navami processions in Shibpur and Rishra in West Bengal regarded to healthy with the BJP`s prices towards her government.
Speaking to newshounds after an occasion wherein she flagged off 30 superior lifestyles help ambulances, the Chief Minister stated, “You inform me whether or not it’s miles a fact-locating committee permitted with the aid of using the Supreme Court or High Court.
Or is it from the government, or is it from the party? If it’s been authenticated with the aid of using the party, it’s miles of no value. It is valueless, baseless, caseless, and faceless. A non-problem has come to be their spiritual problem. But it isn’t a spiritual matter, it’s miles crook violence and now no longer communal violence. Not a unmarried character died. Not a unmarried injured. The incident came about due to the BJP.”
She puzzled why might human beings in a spiritual procession convey arms, dance with a gun, and convey bulldozers.
“With whose permission? All of that is illegal. They danced like mad human beings. They were introduced from Munger (Bihar). They are outsiders. They aren’t from right here. Our human beings right here all stay together. They do not bask in riots. Harmony is our culture,” Ms Banerjee added.
Explaining the police movement all through the violence, she stated human beings indulging in it have been sporting plenty of weapons, that can have brought about deaths all through firing if the police had at once stopped a collection that became attacking another. Rejecting allegations of suspicious motive, she stated the police tactfully waited for an hour, and then the 2 groups — Hindus and Muslims — settled the problem with the aid of using cooperating.
“The location is now calm. Who has come to disturb the peace? The fact-locating crew,” she fumed.
A fact-locating crew of civil society contributors inclusive of Justice L Narsimha Reddy (Former Chief Justice of Patna High Court), Raj Pal Singh (Former IPS officer from the Haryana Cadre), Dr Charu Wali Khanna (Advocate and previous member of the National Commission for Women), OP Vyas (Advocate and previous Registrar of the NHRC), senior journalist Sanjeev Nayak, and Advocate Bhavna Bajaj. The crew became stopped with the aid of using the police from touring the locations stricken by the violence, as prohibitory orders have been nonetheless in area withinside the areas.
Justice L Narsimha Reddy (retired) had in advance held a press convention withinside the day, saying, “For 3 days, we were attempting to find out the prevailing situation and whether or not human beings have the self assurance or now no longer. That’s why we have been seeking to move there. The police have been very strict with us and did now no longer permit us to transport an inch in the direction of the area. Police have been lively in establishing those riots, and it couldn’t have came about with out their help.”
The crew met the centre-appointed West Bengal Governor on the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata on Monday evening. Reacting to the Chief Minister’s criticism, Justice Reddy informed newshounds, “As a human being, all people can move there. If there’s not anything to hide, why are you scared?”
Meanwhile, the Calcutta High Court heard a plea with the aid of using the BJP stressful an NIA probe into the violence in Howrah and Hooghly districts.
