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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | RTI reveals violent state by Rajib Chatterjee

RTI reveals violent state by Rajib Chatterjee

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published Published on Feb 7, 2012   modified Modified on Feb 7, 2012

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee may claim that peace prevails everywhere in West Bengal since her party came to power in the state, but police records say a different story altogether.
The state, according to the police records, has witnessed 642 political clashes, including those of student politics, across the districts in the first five months and eighteen days after Banerjee assumed power.

A total of 926 political workers that include 128 students were injured in these clashes while 27 people reportedly died in these clashes. On an average, West Bengal has recorded more than 100 clashes every month, the report said.

The figures were given by the State Crime Records Bureau (SCRB) to a resident of Singur, Shyamal Mitra, who had sought information under Right To Information Act, about political clashes that took place between May 13 2011 (the day when Banerjee took over as the chief minister of West Bengal) and October 31.

Responding to the RTI application, SCRB informed Mitra that a total of 586 political and 56 student clashes have been reported to it by all districts, including four railway police districts during the period.

The report that also dismisses Banerjee's claim that more Trinamool supporters than belonging to other parties were killed in the political clashes. The RTI reply states that five Trinamool supporters lost their lives while CPM lost 10 of its workers. Two Congress workers and ten other activists - whose political affiliation were not mentioned in the report – were killed.

The report states that a total 798 political activists (not students) were injured, of them 446 belong to Trinamool, 274 to CPM, 37 to Congress and 41 to other parties including RSP, Forward Bloc, SP and BJP.

A total of 56 student clashes have been reported to SCRB during the same period. In all 128 students were injured. Of them, 56 belong to Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, 35 to CPM's SFI, 26 to Congress' CP and 11 to other students' outfits like DSO and MDSA. there was no report of any death in student clashes.

The districts that have witnessed most of these political clashes are West Midnapore (141), Bankura (59), Burdwan (78), Hooghly (57), Cooch Behar (45), East Midnapore (31),North Dinajpur (35) and Howrah (31).

Most casualties were reported from Bankura (6), followed by Burdwan (5), Hooghly (5) and Murshidabad (4). Other districts that reported political deaths include Birbhum and West Midnapore two each, and North Dinajpur and Purulia one each. One political murder was reported from Darjeeling.

Regarding students' clash, the report revealed that most reports came from Murshidabad (18) followed by Jaipaiguri (11), West Midnapore (9) and Cooch Behar (5).

“From the report, it is quite clear that the chief minister has failed to control political clash in states. She also made a false claim that more Trinamool workers than activists of the other parties were killed in political clashes,” Mitra, a functionary of the Confederation of State Government Employees, affiliated to INTUC, said.

The Indian Express, 7 February, 2012, http://www.indianexpress.com/news/rti-reveals-violent-state/908908/


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