Mafia ruling Bengal, says BJP fact-finding team in Birbhum report
India Today
The report tore into the TMC dispensation that has often faced accusations of corruption and extortion and alleged that the violence was a result of "state-sponsored extortion, goonda tax, cut-money, and tolabaaji".
The Mafia is ruling West Bengal under the leadership of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in coonivance with the police and the political leadership, the BJP central committee said in its report on the violence in Bengal’s Birbhum to party chief JP Nadda today.
“The carnage in Bagtui village is the outcome of state-sponsored extortion, goonda tax, cut-money, tolabaaji and rivalry among its illegal beneficiaries,” the report alleged, tearing into the TMC dispensation in the state that has often faced accusations of corruption and extortion.
The people of the state have “lost faith in the government and the mode of governance”, it added.
The fact finding team accused the state police of not rescuing them when they were attacked and their “journey was thwarted by TMC goons who were determined to assault the fact finding team”. “Our efforts to contact the DGP and other officers failed.”
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Hitting out at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her visit to Rampurhat, the report said she decided to visit the spot “only after the BJP’s fact-finding team reached Kolkata”. The team was stopped on its way because of her “forced visit”, the report alleged.
A furious Mamata Banerjee called the report “condemnable” and asked how the BJP team pinned the blame without any investigation. According to the chief minister, the report will hinder and weaken the CBI's investigation into the case.
