As apprehended, after the win, the supporters of Mamta’s Trinamool Congress have gone berserk and indulged into grave violence against the BJP workers and supporters in many areas.
The news reports and visuals on social media of violent attacks on political workers were frightening. Taking the cognizance, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has ordered a spot inquiry following reports of post-poll violence from several districts in West Bengal.
The state was in the throes of widespread violence on Monday that allegedly left several BJP workers dead and injured in clashes, and shops being looted, prompting the Centre to seek a factual report from the government on incidents of attack on opposition workers.
Officials said four people were also killed in alleged clashes after the TMC workers attacked the BJP supporters in Burdwan district on Sunday and Monday.
The TMC claimed three of they were its supporters. The NHRC said it has come across several media reports published in newspapers on Tuesday regarding the death of some people in the alleged post-poll violence in West Bengal on Monday.
Political workers allegedly clashed with each other, party offices were torched down and some homes were ransacked and valuables also looted, the body said.
District administration and local law and order enforcement agencies appear not to have acted to stop such violation of human rights of the affected persons, it noted.
“Considering as a fit case of alleged violation of Right to Life of the innocent citizens, the commission has today taken suo-motu cognizance of the matter and has requested its DIG (Investigation) to constitute a team of officers of the Investigation Division of the commission to conduct an on-the-spot fact-finding investigation and to submit a report at the earliest, preferably within two weeks,” it said in a statement.
It is pertinent to note that West Bengal has been a track record of violent incidents pre-and-post-elections in the past too. Unfortunately, the atmosphere usually gets highly surcharged by the provocative speeches and intolerant political ideology by the rivals with the ruling party always having the upper hand in disturbing the peace.
Mamta Banerjee must realise that political arrogance in running the affairs of the state is unbecoming of a mass-appeal leader. She had already felt the heat of public disillusion during this election as a large section of the people in West Bengal have been expressing a sense of alienation due to TMC’s partisan and appeasement policies against the majority. Though some positive change was noticed in Mamta during the election campaign, such incidents and attitude of crushing the opponents has spoiled her image permanently. She should stop her workers on rampage forthwith.
