Kolkata:
West-Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose has decided to leave for municipal violence on Thursday evening and to leave in Murshidabad district, and ignores requests from Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee earlier in the day to refrain from visiting the district to the moment that the situation becomes completely normal.
Insiders from Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, said that the governor would only leave for Murshidabad on Thursday evening. After he arrived there, he would have a night stay in the district circuit building and on Friday morning he would visit the different pockets in this minority dominated by the minority, which was boiling almost the entire week after protests against the WAQF (amendment) Act became violent.
Earlier on Thursday, the Chief Minister appealed to the Governor via Mediaperson to not visit Murshidabad for the time being.
“I would ask the Governor to wait a few more days before I went to Murshidabad. I could have went there. But I had a visit to since my visit there to go there to go. A team of the West Bengaalse Commission for Women also wanted to go there. But I asked them to wait a few days,” said the main minister earlier in the day.
At the same time, the Chief Minister said she would only visit Murshidabad after the situation there would be normal.
In the meantime, the ADG Law & Order (South Bengal Range), Supratim Sarkar, informed media people on Thursday evening that there would be a review to check whether there was intelligence error in obtaining information about the Brouwonrest in the various pockets in Murshidabad.
He also said that a total of 60 FIRs have been registered and the number of arrests in this context has increased to 274. He also informed that the police are also particularly interested in bringing back people from their homes due to violence and the return of 75 of such people.
“We will ensure that they can stay peacefully and without fear in their respective houses. Now the police and Capf camps are there. So there is nothing to worry,” Sarkar said.
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