GUV violates Mamata Banerjee and meets Riot victims; NHRC, NCW team visits MALDA relief camp
“This camp is worse than a prison. Police don’t allow us to see anyone and tell us about our ordeal,” a camp resident told reporters.
Although CM asked to postpone his trip “to keep calm, he wanted to independently verify ground reports, Bose left Malda this morning.
“I’m going to the fields,” Boss told reporters before boarding the train in Kolkata.
“I will meet the victims and verify the reports we have received. I will visit the hospital, the victim’s residence and relief camps. The Central Forces and the State Police are working together to restore normalcy. After meeting with the victims, I will make suggestions.”
At the camp, the governor was seen interacting with children and patiently listened to the discontent of displaced families. “The woman said that the wrongdoing hit her home, plundered her property and was forcibly evicted,” he said. When asked about complaints about living conditions in Inhume, he said he would seek detailed reports and talk to the government.
The Raj Bhawan official who accompanied him noticed the complaint.
Tensions escalated as angry camp residents broke barricades and surrounded area officials, accusing police of not allowing them to talk to the media or meet with relatives of visitors.
Several women accused police officers of harassment and said they were threatened to talk to outsiders at night.
“The police are treating us like criminals. We get dry rot, bananas and stale rice. It’s hard to say whether we’re in a refugee camp or a detention center,” a woman at the camp told reporters.
In its Suo Motu understanding of violence, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) sent a fact-finding team to the region and sought detailed reports from the state government within three weeks.
NHRC members noticed after talking to members of affected families living in Parlalpur High School camp.
The committee said Tuesday that given the severity of the situation, it has decided to send a team to conduct a live investigation into the incident.
A delegation from the National Commission for Women (NCW), led by Chairman Vijaya Rahatkar, also visited the camp to assess the situation of women displaced by violence, erupting in protests at the protest centre against the WAQF (Amendment) bill.
“I’m shocked by the situation of the women and children here,” Rahatkar told reporters after interacting with the camp residents.
NCW member Archana Majumdar accompanied Rahatkar, claiming that women were harassed and kicked out of their homes.
“It is the responsibility of the state government to ensure its security. What is the TMC doing? The government is trying to turn West Bengal into another Bangladesh?” Jumumdar said.
The NCW delegation is expected to spend the night in Malda before heading to Mershidabad on Saturday.
The group is scheduled to meet with district officials, victims on Sunday and eventually convene the Governor of Kolkata, chief secretary and director-general.
The ruling Trinamool Congress criticized the visits of the governor, NHRC and NCW teams, accusing them of being in a state of tension in an already waving area.
“The governor should respect that when CM asks him to postpone his visit. His actions indicate an intention to cause turmoil. The visits to NCW and NHRC are also driven by politics to help the BJP undermine the situation,” TMC MP MP SOGOGATA ROY allegedly.
BJP National President and Trade Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar accused TMC of blocking the people behind the political violence of voting banks in opposing the allegations.
Majumdar told PTI: “The TMC is panicking because these visits may be related to the thugs.
At least three people were killed, and more than 274 were suspected of being linked to violence in Muslim-majority areas such as Shamsherganj, Suti, Dhulian and Jangipur in the Murhidabad region.
Security forces in the area have tightened, with paramilitary forces deployed with state police to prevent further escalation.
Several families fled from Mexidabad and now live in a temporary shelter near Marda.
Public conflict broke out during the protests of Muslim communities against the center’s amendment to the WAQF bill, which they claimed would concentrate control over Muslim charitable property and allow them to abuse.
