TMC sends fact-finding teams across Bengal, alleges attacks and killings after poll defeat

Trinamool Congress teams visited a number of areas of West Bengal to take inventory of complaints associated to post-poll violence and alleged election manipulations. TMC management claimed that at the very least 10 of their staff have been “brutally murdered” after the election outcomes. 

Three fact-finding teams from Kolkata which included many senior TMC leaders visited completely different elements of the State and spoke to a number of celebration staff. 

“They saved abusing us even after we did a lot work for them. These are all BJP staff,” a feminine TMC employee from Hooghly mentioned that she and her household got here beneath assault after the elections concluded within the State. 

TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP, Dola Sen, who was a part of one of many fact-finding teams mentioned that their celebration staff and frequent persons are additionally coming beneath assault by the BJP staff prior to now few days. 

“They’ve damaged many properties and overtaken a lot of our celebration workplaces. They’re additionally making an attempt to interrupt up all the federal government our bodies and workplaces… Nonetheless, even after a lot intimidation, our staff will not be scared,” Ms. Sen mentioned. She additional added that they may submit their findings to the federal government and the Excessive Court docket, the place the TMC is preventing a case towards the post-poll violence. 

“TMC counting brokers overwhelmed up badly across Bengal and thrown out of counting centres publish 2 pm. (It was at 2 pm that every one godi media channels in unison started to flash “BJP victory.”),” TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose claimed primarily based on the fact-finding teams’ takeaways. 

West Bengal Minister Ashok Kirtania criticised the TMC’s fact-finding staff and mentioned that they don’t have any relation to the “drama Mamata Banerjee” is doing. 

“Our CM has mentioned within the Meeting that if any TMC employee is homeless because of post-poll points, then submit their names to the DGP, they are going to be introduced again… However the post-poll violence that occurred with the BJP staff after 2021 elections, we won’t let that go,” Mr. Kirtania mentioned. 

In the meantime, TMC chairperson and normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee met with members of the celebration’s authorized cell to struggle the assault on their staff. 

“At a time when our staff are being brutally attacked, abused and subjected to relentless intimidation, we should stand united to guard their rights, uphold their dignity and safe justice for each sufferer of political violence,” an official assertion from the TMC on their social media pages mentioned. 

The celebration which went out of energy after 15 years and misplaced by an enormous margin to the BJP additionally claimed that over 3,000 of their staff have been attacked after the ultimate poll outcomes, and at the very least 10 of them have been killed. 

Two days again on Could 14, Ms. Banerjee, the previous CM of Bengal, appeared earlier than the Calcutta Excessive Court docket in a lawyer’s gown to argue a case filed by her celebration towards the post-poll violence. 

The Calcutta Excessive Court docket directed the police to make sure secure return of victims affected by violence. Nonetheless, this episode has additionally left the Bar Council of India asking concerning the validity and standing of Ms. Banerjee’s authorized license to follow in courts.