West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose left for Malda on Friday morning to satisfy the households who had been impacted by the current violence in Murshidabad and are at the moment staying at a authorities reduction camp. Bose is predicted to go to the violence-torn areas in Murshidabad on Saturday.
West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose meets folks from violence hit Murshidabad, in Kolkata on Thursday. (PTI Photograph)
“The Governor left for Malda by train from Sealdah station around 9am. He will reach Malda town in the afternoon and is likely to visit a relief camp where some victim-families have put up. The Governor will stay in Malda and is expected to visit some of the riot-hit villages in Murshidabad on Saturday,” mentioned a senior official of Raj Bhavan.
This comes a day after West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee urged Bose to defer his go to to the riot-hit space by a number of days.
“I would appeal to the Governor to wait for a few days more before visiting Murshidabad,” she mentioned whereas chatting with the media on the state secretariat.
Communal clashes broke out in Samserganj and Suti space in Murshidabad district final week following protests over the Waqf (Modification) Act. Three individuals had been killed. The Calcutta excessive courtroom ordered deployment of central forces.
“Peace is returning to the villages. The state administration has taken up confidence-building measures. Even I could have gone there. Why am I not going there? I will go there at the right time. If I go now, permission has to be given to others too,” Banerjee had mentioned.
Bose, nonetheless, advised the media on Friday that “the request of the chief minister would be taken in all its seriousness”.
The Governor had met among the riot-victims, who went to Raj Bhavan on Thursday.
Earlier on Friday, Bose had mentioned: “I am going to the field to see for myself the realities of the field. I will have an objective view of the matter. The situation has been brought under control. We should take further steps to prevent similar instances in future. I will certainly visit Murshidabad…People from the area have requested to have a BSF camp there.”
In the meantime the Nationwide Fee for Girls (NCW) and the Nationwide Human Rights Fee (NHRC) had been additionally sending groups to Malda and Murshidabad.
NCW chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar arrived in Kolkata on Thursday. A four-member committee headed by Rahatkar is prone to go to Malda on Friday to satisfy among the households which had been displaced by final week’s communal clashes. The staff can also be prone to go to riot-hit areas in Murshidabad on Saturday.
“We came to know from media reports that women were tortured. We will go to the spot to see the situation,” Rahatkar advised the media. A NHRC staff additionally left for Malda early within the morning from Kolkata.
Senior IPS officers mentioned that normalcy was steadily returning to the areas the place communal clashes had erupted.
“Around 70% of the shops in Samserganj and Suti have reopened and there have been no reports of any clashes over the past four days. In all 274 people have been arrested till date in connection with the riots which erupted on Friday and Saturday. At least 85 people who fled to Malda have returned home. An eleven-member team led by DIG Murshidabad range has been set up to probe into the cases. In all 60 FIRs have been registered in connection with the riots,” Supratim Sarkar, further director basic of police (south Bengal), advised the media on Thursday night.