Kolkata : Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Thursday squarely blamed the BJP after the Supreme Court rebuked the state over judicial officers being gheraoed for hours in Malda district. The Trinamool Congress supremo distanced her government from the incident and pointed to public anger over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of voter rolls.
“I don’t know who those people are who gheraoed the judicial officers, but people are angry with SIR. I don’t have any power, they have taken all the power from me, law and order and all,” she said. Mamata Banerjee alleged that the incident in Malda was part of the BJP’s “gameplan”. Staring at defeat, the saffron party wants to get the Assembly elections later this month cancelled and impose President’s rule in Bengal, she claimed.
A massive protest broke out on Wednesday outside the Kaliachak II Block Development Office in Malda over deletion of names from electoral rolls during the SIR. Protesters sought a meeting with judicial officers reviewing cases under adjudication to decide whether voters should be retained or deleted. After their request was denied, the crowd gheraoed the office around 4 pm, confining seven judicial officers, including three women.
The matter was taken up by the Supreme Court, which termed the incident an attempt to challenge its authority. Calling West Bengal the :most polarised state”, the court said the episode appeared pre-planned and motivated.
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