Mamata demands Bhattacharjee's resignation

KOLKATA: Shortly after the removal of five top police officers including Kolkata police commissioner Prasun Mukherjee by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Wednesday, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee demanded his resignation as the Home (police) minister.
    
"He is the Home (police) minister. Has he quit his office? Under whose direction has the police worked?" Banerjee asked.
    
She said that the chief minister was forced to transfer the five officers due to yesterday's court order for a CBI investigation into the "unnatural" death of Rizwanur Rehman who was allegedly pressurised by police officers after he married a Hindu girl.
    
"He (Bhattacharjee) has been forced to take action against the police officers. If he had the will, he would have taken the action much before. Why did he take such a long time. Even now the CM has merely transferred the officers?" she said.
    
The TC supremo said that the state government had opposed the petition moved by Rizwanur Rehman's mother Kishwar Jahan seeking CBI probe.