Mamata announces ₹5L to kin
Yeddy govt warns of Up-like action
KOLKATA:WEST Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced that her party, the Trinamool Congress, will give ~5 lakh each to the families of the two men killed in Karnataka’s Mangaluru during violent protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the proposed pan-india National Register of Citizens (NRC).
The announcement has come a day after Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa withdrew the ex-gratia amount of ~10 lakh offered to each of the two men. “Trinamool Congress, despite being a poor party, will send a delegation of trade union leaders to Karnataka to help these families,” Banerjee announced at an anti Caa-rally in Kolkata on Thursday. “We will give ~5 lakh to each family,” she said.
“In Karnataka, the government has lost the support of the people and exists only on signboards. People are not with you. Conduct a poll and see it for yourself. People don’t have food, clothes and homes,” she said.
The Bengal unit of the BJP reacted to Mamata’s statements. “The railways have lost property worth ~300 crore and Banerjee has not lodged any FIR against the culprits. She enjoys no mass support anymore,” said Bengal BJP unit president Dilip Ghosh.
BENGALURU: Karnataka revenue minister R Ashoka on Thursday said the state government would emulate Uttar Pradesh and confiscate properties of those who caused damage to public properties during protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act.
“Everyone has to obey the law of the land and not give an opportunity for such action by the government,” he told reporters here.
“...way in which UP government has decided to confiscate the properties of those indulging in violence - if such things happen again, it will be brought in Karnataka also,” Ashoka said.
UP government has started the process of identifying those who indulged in arson during protests.