Trinamool leaders are irked with the three-member central team’s decision to skip their visit to the troubled areas in West Bengal. The central team, which has been in Kolkata since Monday to review the law and order situation in the state, left for New Delhi on Wednesday afternoon.
After meeting the central team members on Wednesday morning, Trinamool leaders requested them to submit the final report only after visiting the troubled areas. “They should first interact with the people affected by the state-sponsored terrorism and only then submit their final report,” Trinamool Rajya Sabha member and Union minister of state for shipping Mukul Roy said.
“Trinamool wants Article 356 to be imposed in the state only to protect the people from state-sponsored terrorism and not to win the 2011 elections. Since the last Lok Sabha election, we have been winning even with the Left Front in power,” Roy said.
Meanwhile, Trinamool sources said their MPs will continue pressurising home minister P Chidambaram to resend the central team. The next time round, the team will have to operate independently and not hold meetings with state government representatives.
“Bureaucrats and police men will say what the CPM wants them to say. Hence, the truth will not come out,” sources said.
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