‘Home of Illegal Bomb Making’: Dhankhar lashes out at Bengal government after NIA arrests in Murshidabad

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said on Saturday that the state has become a “home to illegal bomb-making” and lashed out at law enforcement agencies for deteriorating law and order in the state. .

Dhankhar tweeted: “The state has become home to illegal bomb-making which has the potential to destabilize democracy. Police @MamataOfficial busy doing political errands and standing up to the opposition. Those in command of @WBPolice cannot escape their responsibility for this alarming deterioration of law and order. “

He appealed to law enforcement agencies not to escape accountability. Dhankhar’s comments came after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) detained 9 people from West Bengal’s Murshidabad and Kerala’s Ernakulam on Saturday for their association with a Pakistan-sponsored al-Qaeda module.

The governor also wrote on Twitter that the West Bengal Police Director General maintains an ‘ostrich stance’ and is unaware of the reality on the ground. Dhankhar said he understands the limitations of the police officers who are working in the shadow of the pandemic, but stressed that the people in command “are unaware of the behavior and are politically oriented.”

Two people were killed in the West Midnapore district of South Bengal on Thursday when crude bombs were dropped when two groups of criminals clashed with each other. In August, a Trinamool Congress worker was killed while making crude bombs in the Shamsergunj area of ​​Bengal’s Murshidabad district. Suti of Murshidabad also reported two deaths and five injuries in July associated with bomb-making.