Bengal Has Become Home Of Illegal Bomb Making: Dhankhar On NIA Arrests | India News

KOLKATA: West Bengal has become “the home of illegal bomb-making” and the state administration cannot shirk its responsibility for the “alarming decline” of law and order, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Saturday. The governor’s comments came after the National Investigative Agency (NIA) detained nine terrorists associated with a Pakistan-sponsored al-Qaida module from various locations in Murshidabad, West Bengal, and Ernakulam, Kerala, early in the morning of Saturday. “The state has become home to the illegal manufacture of bombs that have the potential to disrupt democracy. Police @MamataOfficial are busy running political errands and taking on the opposition. Those who run @WBPolice cannot escape their responsibility for this alarming deterioration of public order, “Dhankhar tweeted.

The governor claimed that the state police chief is out of touch and his “ostrich stance” is “very disturbing.”

“How far DGP @WBPolice is from reality is cause for concern. Your ‘Ostrich Posture’ is very disturbing. Appreciate the role of police officers in general: they are working in difficult situations. Conduct and be politically guided,” said Dhankhar in another Twitter post.

“… DGP on this alarming matter @MamataOfficial for me ‘West Bengal Police firmly adhere to the path established by law. There is no discrimination for or against anyone in an extra-legal sense,'” he said in another tweet .

The governor, who has had frequent clashes with the Mamata Banerjee dispensation on various issues, had previously accused the police and state administration of playing a partisan role and harassing opposition party leaders and workers.