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West Bengal govt expresses regret for police beating up journalists

Partha Chatterjee today expressed regret for the beating up of journalists who were reporting on the Left parties' protest-march.

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West Bengal parliamentary affairs minister Partha Chatterjee today expressed regret for the beating up of journalists who were reporting on the Left parties' protest-march to the state secretariat on May 22.

"We express our regret for the way journalists have been beaten up while covering a news story," Chatterjee said in the Assembly. Several journalists and lens men, belonging to both the local and national media, were beaten up twice by police officials near Mayo road in front of the Kolkata Press Club yesterday. Several journalists were hopsitalized.

They were kicked and struck with batons. Women jounalists were also targeted as they were abused by the police personnel on duty. The Kolkata police had also yesterday expressed its regret for the incident.

Left-Congress to bring no-confidence motion:

The Congress and the Left will bring a no-confidence motion against the Trinamool Congress government in the upcoming session of West Bengal assembly. The Congress, whose numbers have decreased to 39 in the assembly after five MLAs switched to the ruling party, said it will bring the no-confidence motion along with Left Front.

The Left Front has 31 MLAs in the assembly. The TMC had won 211 seats in the last state assembly polls by defeating the Left-Congress combine.

"We have decided to bring in no-confidence motion against the corrupt state government run by TMC. Democracy was brutally murdered in this municipal polls. Yesterday police resorted to unprovoked baton charge on peaceful protesters. Even journalists were not spared," Leader of Opposition and state Congress leader Abdul Manan said.

"Infant trafficking, chit funds, poaching on MLAs are a regular affair in Bengal politics under TMC rule," he said.

Asked about the paucity in numbers, senior Congress MLA Manoj Chakraborty said "It is not a question of winning or losing (the no-confidence). It is about registering our protest and people's anger against the undemocratic and dictatorial functioning of the government." State Parliamentary Affairs Minister and TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee mocked Manan for proposing to bring in no-confidence motion. "They can do whatever they want," he said.

 

 

 

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