In a wide-ranging interview to news channel WION, outgoing Bengal governor Kesar Nath Tripathi spoke on a host of issues plaguing the state.
In a wide-ranging interview to news channel WION, outgoing Bengal governor Kesar Nath Tripathi spoke on a host of issues plaguing the state.
He panned Mamata Banerjee for calling him a BJP man, saying that she forgot that Raj Bhavan was a safety valve and he met delegations from across the political aisle including Congress, CPI(M), Forward Bloc and others.
He claimed that the state’s law-and-order situation was deteriorating accusing the police at the lower levels of being ‘biased’.
He told WION: “There is law and order problem in the state. Violence is taking place every day, throughout the state for some reason. There should not be any discrimination in implementing law and order.”
1. Violence became an issue due to illegal immigration
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He goes on to criticise Banerjee for blaming the violence on outsiders, pointing out that violence was caused by Bangladeshi immigrants and Rohingyas as well.
He said: “Violence become an issue due to immigration from Bangladesh and Rohingyas. The CM accused a particular party and brining person from outside. Trouble was created by insiders. NRC will be enforced across the country. We know how demographic changed in Assam. People in Assam have welcomed NRC.”
Calling the recent letter to PM Modi on mob lynching ‘fraudulent’, he said: “Activism is sometimes fraudulent. Where were they when atrocities were carried out earlier. If there are four-five incidents, is it enough to defame the country? There is a group which wants to defame the country.”
Tripathi also denied sending a 48-page letter to the Home Ministry saying that he had not even submitted a 48-word report.
2. Letter Wars
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Three days after a group of eminent citizens wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the lynching of minorities and hate crimes, 61 celebrities from various fields on Friday responded with a counter statement against "selective outrage and false narratives".
The July 23 letter by 49 "self-styled guardians and conscience keepers" expressed selective concerns and demonstrated a "clear political bias and motive", said the statement signed by actor Kangana Ranaut, lyricist Prasoon Joshi, dancer Sonal Mansingh and filmmakers Madhur Bhandarkar and Vivek Agnihotri among others.
"It (the July 23 letter) is aimed at tarnishing India's international standing and to negatively portray the prime minister's untiring efforts to effectuate governance on the foundations of positive nationalism and humanism which is the core of Indianess," the statement read.
3. Kashyap hits back
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After a criminal complaint was lodged against the 9 of the 49 signatories who addressed a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on increasing incidents of mob lynching in the country, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap opened up on Twitter on the matter.
"If one letter can impact them so much that they need an entire troll army to keep digging out false narratives & throw various accusations continuously at signatories to counter the truth, imagine what would happen if we start questioning every self-serving action of the regime," Anurag tweeted.
He ended his post in another tweet reading- #stoplynchings.
The 'Gangs of Wasseypur' director's statement came in the wake of a criminal complaint filed in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Sury Kant Tiwari by a city-based lawyer Sudhir Ojha. He, on Saturday, filed the case against nine people including Konkona Sen Sharma and Aparna Sen.
According to the complainant against nine celebrities including Konkona Sen Sharma and Aparna Sen, the case has been filed under Sections 124a (sedition), 153B (assertions prejudicial to national integration), 290 (public nuisance), 297 (trespass to wound religious feelings), 504 (intentional insults) of the India Penal Code (IPC).
