■ Mamata holds meeting on post-poll violence
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday held a meeting with the top administrative and police officers of the state on the post poll violence in the state, an official said.
In the meeting, which was held at Banerjee’s Kalighat residence. she took stock of the situation, he said. Present in the meeting were Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay, Home Secretary H K Dwidevi, Director General of Police P Nirajnayan and Kolkata Police Commissioner Soumen Mitra, the official said.
The state has witnessed a number of incidents of violence since Sunday when the results of the assembly election was declared and rivals TMC and BJP have traded charges for it. At least six people were killed in post poll violence in different parts of the state including one in the city, police said.
BJP has alleged that TMCbacked goons have killed a number of its workers, attacked its woman members, vandalised houses, looted shops of the party members and ransacked party offices. TMC has denied the charges.
Riots reminiscent of Partition days: Nadda
BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday said the widespread post-poll violence in West Bengal is reminiscent of the atrocities people had to face during the country’s Partition, and exhorted party workers in the state to democratically fight the “savagery”.
Nadda said BJP workers across India have expressed solidarity with their activists in the state, who are “facing violent attacks”.
“We are committed to democratically fight this ideological battle and the activities of the TMC, which is full of intolerance,” he told reporters at the NSC Bose International Airport here.