'Why Do Murders Happen Here When...': Bengal BJP Chief To CM Mamata Over Congress Worker's Killing

West Bengal BJP chief Majumdar slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led state government, asking why, if law and order are in place, murders occur as elections approach.

A day after the murder of a Congress worker in West Bengal, Bharatiya Janata Party’s state unit chief Sukanta Majumdar slammed the Mamata Banerjee-led state government and asked that if the law and order situation in the state is intact then why do murders happen when elections are nearing. Congress workers held a protest outside the office of the State Election Commission in Kolkata over the party worker's murder in Khargram of Murshidabad.

 "Yesterday, a Congress worker was murdered...if the law & order in West Bengal is intact, why do murders happen when elections are nearing?...We have requested the Governor for the deployment of the Central forces during the panchayat election. We have also requested that no contractual staff must be allowed on election duty and we have demanded the installation of CCTV cameras in voting booths as well as the counting halls," Sukanta Majumdar said, as quoted by the news agency ANI.

Earlier in the day, Majumdar met Governor C V Ananda Bose over the upcoming Panchayat elections in the state after he wrote a letter to the Governor requesting the deployment of Central Paramilitary Forces during the forthcoming Panchayat elections alleging deteriorating law and order situation in the state.

The state Congress chief, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, has also written to the Governor putting forth the same demand after an active Congress worker was killed in Murshidabad's Khargram besides two other workers of the party.

"The Bharatiya Janata Party has concerned at the grim law and order situation across West Bengal, and the conduct of Panchayat elections amidst such situation. Almost every day someone or the other is being killed in West Bengal. After the declaration of results on May 2, 2021, untold violence was unleashed on hapless citizens by the ruling Trinamool Congress," Majumdar claimed.

There have been several other incidents where violence has been unleashed in Bengal for political reasons, he alleged, further claiming that "women have also not been spared and several women were also ravished."