WB: BJP Chief Nadda Constitutes 5-Member Team to Probe ‘Nabanna Chalo’ Violence
GG News Bureau
Kolkata, 16th September. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief JP Nadda has formed a five-member committee to investigate violence against BJP workers in West Bengal during the recent Nabanna Chalo march.
The team will be led by former Uttar Pradesh DGP and current Rajya Sabha MP Brij Lal, former Information and Broadcasting Minister and Lok Sabha MP Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore, Lok Sabha MP Aparajita Sarangi, Rajya Sabha MP Sameer Umrao, and former parliamentarian Sunil Jakhar.
According to sources, these leaders have been asked to go on the ground and investigate the situation. They will also look into what caused the violence in Kolkata.
The committee will also demand that the state government prosecute the accused. They will present the report to the party’s national president.
On Tuesday, the BJP staged a massive protest march, named “ ‘Nabanna Abhijan,’ to the state secretariat, where a clash erupted between BJP workers and police inside the Bolpur railway station as police tried to block the workers from traveling to Kolkata to participate in the Nabanna Chalo march. A number of workers were also detained.
“With hundreds of BJP workers heading towards Kolkata to join BJP’s Nabanna march via trains, police barricaded paths to railway stations. 20 of our workers were stopped by police near Durgapur railway station. I reached here using other paths,” said BJP leader Abhijit Dutta.
Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, and MP Locket Chatterjee were also detained by Kolkata police ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) protest march to the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ on Tuesday.
The rioting has devolved into a political squabble. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that those causing a nuisance would face action after accusing the BJP of indulging in violence during protests against her government.
“People were harassed and public properties vandalised and destroyed. You can’t have goons and bombs brought in, in the name of protests. Remember, police and fringe elements cannot go together. No anti-social activity will get any cover under the garb of politics, the police will take action if that happens,” Banerjee said.
Banerjee also claimed that the BJP had brought protesters from other states. She also defended the police response to the protestors.
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