Mamata Banerjee and Sharad Pawar will hold meetings with other national leaders (Archive)
Calcutta:
Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and CPN Chief Sharad Pawar spoke today and discussed what they called the attempts by the BJP-led central government to abuse its powers to destabilize opposition-ruled states, he said. a senior leader from Maharashtra.
Nawab Mallik, spokesperson for Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), said Mamata Banerjee spoke about the center targeting her government ahead of the elections in Bengal, especially with reference to three high-ranking police officers to those who were ordered to report to Delhi after an attack on the BJP. Chief JP Nadda’s car near Kolkata recently.
“Sharad Pawar and Mamata Banerjee discussed how the BJP is trying to destabilize Bengal, withdrawing government officials at will and infringing on the rights of the state. The way the BJP is abusing central agencies is not correct,” Nawab Mallik said. to journalists.
“Mamata Banerjee and Sharad Pawar will also meet with other national leaders. Mr. Pawar will go to Bengal if necessary,” he said.
With four months to go for the high-level assembly elections in Bengal, Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of doing everything in its power to try to weaken his government and his Trinamool Congress party.
“BJP is a ‘cheatingbaaz’ party, for politics they can do anything. The policy of the BJP is that for politics they can say anything, all the garbage of lies, “said the chief minister at a press conference today, two days after some 35 rebels from her party joined the BJP in a meeting of the Minister of the Interior of the Union, Amit Shah.
So far it has refused to dispatch three officers from the Indian Police Service (IPS) ordered to move to Delhi in the central delegation for the attack on the BJP chief’s convoy by Trinamool supporters on 10 December. The BJP claimed that its leaders were injured and cars were damaged. in the incident.
Bengal’s main administrative and police officers were summoned after the attack.
After Bengal rejected two subpoenas, the Union Interior Ministry arranged a virtual meeting with the chief secretary and the police chief last week and expressed concern about the law and order situation in the state.
“Is there a super emergency or emergency in Bengal? Have they already announced an emergency in Bengal? So why will it be implemented only in Bengal? The elections are coming up because of that? They want to scare the officials,” Mamata Banerjee said today.
Maharashtra, where former BJP ally Shiv Sena leads a coalition government with the NCP and Congress, has had similar clashes with the central government.
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