Violence broke out last week between two communities in Delhi’s Jahanagirpuri. (File)
Kolkata:
With violence in Jahangirpuri stirring the political pot, the Trinamool Congress has decided to send an investigative team to the national capital on Friday, party sources said.
Trinamool MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar is one of the party members in the investigation team, sources said.
Trinamool led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has joined the opposition’s bandwagon in ramping up the heat on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following the violence in Jahangirpuri and the subsequent demolition campaign carried out by North Delhi Municipal Corporation ( NDMC) in place on Thursday.
The Trinamool move came in the background of CPM Politburo member Brinda Karat who visited the area to demand an end to the demolition action on Wednesday. At the same time, Congress also decided to jump on the bandwagon and send a team of leaders, including former Union Minister Ajay Maken, to the venue on Thursday.
On April 16, violence broke out between two communities in Jahanagirpuri during a Hanuman Jayanti procession. Nine people were injured in the incident, including eight police officers and a civilian.
Following the incident, the BJP-ruled North MCD had planned an “action for encroachment removal” program that would see illegal construction in the Jahangirpuri area removed on Wednesday and Thursday.
After the demolition campaign began on Wednesday, the Supreme Court ordered a “status quo”.
The demolition was subsequently criticized by members of opposition parties, including Congress leaders Shashi Tharoor and Rahul Gandhi, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi, Delhi’s environment minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Gopal Rai, among others Brinda Karat of cpm.
The Trinamool’s move to send a team is seen as a mutual one, as the BJP had sent a five-member investigative committee to West Bengal after arson in the Rampurhat area of West Bengal’s Birbhum district.
BJP chief JP Nadda had formed a five-member committee of inquiry made up of West Bengal state party president Sukanta Majumdar, Rajya Sabha MP and former Uttar Pradesh DGP Brajlal, Lok Sabha MP and former Mumbai Police Commissioner Satya Pal Singh, Rajya Sabha MP and former IPS KC Ramamurty and party spokesman and former IPS Bharati Ghosh.
Eight people were killed in the Rampurhat area of Birbhum in West Bengal after a mob reportedly set houses on fire after the assassination of Trinamool leader Bhadur Sheikh.
Recently, the BJP also sent a five-member investigative team to Hanshkhali in West Bengal’s Nadia district, where an underage girl died after allegedly being gang-raped.
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