GG News Bureau
Kolkata, 21st April. Amid opposition chaos over Jahangirpuri violence, the Trinamool Congress has decided to send a fact-finding team to the national capital on Friday, party sources said.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is among the members in the fact-finding team, sources said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress has taken the side of the Opposition in stepping up the heat on the Bharatiya Janata Party following the Jahangirpuri violence and the subsequent demolition drive carried out by North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) in Jahangirpuri on Thursday.
The Trinamool Congress’s move has come in the backdrop of Communist Party of India (Marxist) Politburo member Brinda Karat visiting the Jahangirpuri area of Delhi to demand the halt of the demolition drive on Wednesday.
The Congress party has also decided to send a team of leaders, including former Union minister Ajay Maken, to the site on Thursday.
Clashes broke out between two communities in Jahangirpuri area of the national capital on April 16 during a Hanuman Jayanti procession. The incident left nine people injured, including eight police personnel and a local resident.
Following the incident, the Bharatiya Janata Party ruled North Delhi Municipal Corporation had scheduled an “encroachment removal action programme”, wherein illegal construction in the Jahangirpuri were to be removed on Wednesday and Thursday.
After the demolition drive was initiated on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ordered a “status-quo” on it.
The demolition drive was criticized by several members of the Opposition parties, including Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Rahul Gandhi, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, AAP leader Gopal Rai, CPI(M) Politburo member Brinda Karat among others.
The TMC’s move to send a fact-finding team is being seen as a reciprocatory step as the BJP had also sent a five-member fact-finding team to West Bengal after arson in the Rampurhat area Birbhum district of West Bengal’s.
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