Updated Dec 14, 2020 | 06:10 IST
On Saturday, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee wrote to Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla alleging “political vendetta” as the motive for the summons. Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee | Photo: Twitter@KBanerjee AITC
New Delhi: The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has summoned two top officers of the West Bengal government today; however, the top officials are unlikely to visit New Delhi.
On Saturday, Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee wrote to Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla alleging “political vendetta” as the motive for the summons.
In his letter, Banerjee said that Law and Order subject is within the domain of the state under the 7th schedule of the state list of the Constitution of India.
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Eight persons were arrested in relation to the attack on BJP president J P Nadda’s convoy during his visit to West Bengal taking the total number of arrests in the case to 15.
According to sources in the South 24 Paraganas district police, the latest arrests were made in the early hours of Saturday. The accused were produced before a district court and remanded to police custody for seven days.
District police sources said that after looking into the video footage of the attack on Nadda’s convoy officials of the Falta and Usthi Police stations launched a search operation on Friday night and the eight persons were arrested in the early hours of Saturday.
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Visva-Bharati University V-C Bidyut Chakrabarty welcomes BJP leaders Kailash Vijayvargiya (centre) and Anupam Hazra on the campus in Birbhum on Sunday. (Photo: PTI)
BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday demanded immediate deployment of central forces in West Bengal to control the law-and-order situation.
Vijayvargiya told reporters, “Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has unleashed a reign of terror in the state. Through this, she wants to remain in the chief minister’s chair. We feel that there is no room for an atmosphere of fear in the state of West Bengal. We will pray before the Election Commission to ensure that free and fair polls are he
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1 A vehicle of BJP president JP Nadda s convoy damaged after stone-pelting by alleged TMC activists at Sirakal near Diamond Harbour, in South 24 Pargana, on December 10, 2020. PTI file
Shubhadeep Choudhury
Kolkata, December 12
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has asked West Bengal to release three Indian Police Service (IPS) officers for central deputation. This follows the attack on BJP chief JP Nadda’s convoy on Thursday when Nadda was headed to Diamond Harbour, the Lok Sabha constituency of CM Mamata Banerjee’s nephew.
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