BJP has welcomed HC's observations.
The Calcutta High Court single bench order of Thursday which put the BJP yatra on hold till January 9, 2019, has been modified by a division bench of Biswanath Somadder and Justice Arindam Mujkherjee on Friday. The court has ordered three top administrative officials of the state – Chief Secretary, Home Secretary and Director General of Police – to sit with three BJP leaders by Wednesday, December 12 to settle on the dates of the yatra.
The court said on Friday that all the problems need to be sorted out and a final decision on the dates of the yatra needed to be arrived at by December 14.BJP lawyers, on Friday submitted a petition challenging the order of the single bench which had put on hold the hearing till January 9, 2019.
The court on Friday expressed its astonishment asking the attorney general why no one from the state administration responded to the communication by the BJP for over a month. The court said that the BJP had sent several letters since October 29 and if the state administration had answered to at least one of those, the situation could have been different. The court also said that permission for carrying out a political programme should not be granted or denied depending upon the political colour and it also expressed its surprise over how the administration, on the basis of certain apprehensions come to the conclusion that the police might not be able to control law and order situation in the state.
The court said that putting a stay on the yatras till January 9 would only make it irrelevant because by that time two-thirds of the proposed dates of the programme would be over.BJP leader Jayprakash Majumder, who was in the court room, said, “After the long hearing the court was surprised at the astounding silence of the administration after BJP sought permission for carrying out the yatra and had also modified the injunctive portion of yesterday’s order.”
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh welcomed today's HC order and said, “We had always wanted to talk and find a solution if there was an apprehension. One week has been wasted unnecessarily. Now we hope good sense will prevail and state administrative officials would sit with us on the date stipulated by the court.”
The lawyer for the state said that according to the court order till December 14 there would be no yatras or rally and that the state government would decide whether or not to move Supreme Court challenging Friday’s High Court division bench order.
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