Friday, 28 May 2021 | PNS | Dehradun
Retired Justice B C Kandpal has said that immediate intervention is needed in West Bengal which is reeling under post poll violence. He was addressing a virtual press conference of ‘Save Bengal’ forum here on Thursday. He said that 16 out of 23 districts of West Bengal are affected by violence and 25 people including women have lost their lives. Kandpal said that 4000 to 5000 people have fled to neighbouring states due to violence and the government should provide them a relief package. Terming the violence as an attack on the culture and sovereignty of the country, he said that an inquiry by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) should be ordered into the violence. Major General ( Retd) Ranvir Yadav said that the newly elected West Bengal government has failed in controlling the violence, impartial investigation of the incidences of violence and in acting against the perpetrators of violence. He said women are deliberately being targeted to spread fear among the people.
Under the Save Bengal forum many prominent retired bureaucrats, retired judges and armed forces veterans have written a letter to the President Ram Nath Kovind and requested that the West Bengal violence should be probed by the NIA.
