Biswabrata Goswami
RANAGHAT, 10 NOV: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has leveled a big charge against National Investigation Agency (NIA) alleging that the investigation agency is stocking tension ‘on views to instigate communal violence in the state from December’.
Her allegation comes weeks after the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) ordered a NIA probe into the Mominpur communal violence, which broke out last month.
Taking Mominpur violence as reference, Miss Banerjee alleged that firearms are being smuggled from Bihar and across international borders to separate north Bengal from the state.
Miss Banerjee made the allegations while holding an administrative meeting today at Ranaghat in Nadia – which is a BJP bastion.
Without naming BJP, she alleged that VIPs inside their black cars carry arms and money, and directed district magistrates and superintendents of police to stop such attempts.
She also asked officials to keep a strict vigil as “some people” have plans to instigate communal clashes in the state from December.
She further instructed that Naka checking be intensified to keep an eye on the movement of VIP cars.
“They have a plan, there’s a conspiracy. Thus, Naka checking has to be intensified. You need to be vigilant, VIP cars should not be used to transport arms. With VIP protection, in black cars, wearing black dresses some people are trying to transport arms. They are trying to stir up trouble. Some use such arrangements to ferry arms and money. You need to be watchful. The people of Bengal don’t do that. Some conspirators do such things. They have already started it in Karnataka,” Mamata alleged.
“Whenever there’s a small incident you must intervene. The administration has been instructed to intervene immediately. If something happens with a family, that family has to be taken into confidence and the situation has to be contained. Everyone knows about the trend. It’s happening across India,” she added.
Drawing a big charge against the probe agency, Miss Banerjee said: “In Nadia, there are some communal organisations too. They are active. Now, NIA has also forayed there to do such things. We are aware of this. It can’t be discussed in a public place, you have to handle it internally.”
She said that she was making an appeal from Nadia, the land of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, that peace was the only solution. The State’s Director General of Police Manoj Malaviya was on the stage along with the Chief Minister when she made these remarks.
Meanwhile, BJP leaders headed by the party’s MP Jagannath Sarkar took out a protest rally when Miss Banerjee was holding the administrative meeting. Mr Sarkar alleged that it was a government programme while no BJP legislative or party’s government representative was invited in the meeting. The police, however, did not allow the protesters to proceed towards the meeting place at Chatimtala.
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