During her meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to raise the issue of attacks on TMC leaders and workers in Tripura in the run-up to the municipal polls on November 25.
A little over five months ago, another leader from West Bengal had approached the Prime Minister with a similar complaint of political violence. Except, the party in the dock was the TMC, and the complainant was Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP.
While Tripura and West Bengal are no strangers to political violence, as captured by reports of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the intense rivalry between the BJP and TMC have deepened the crisis in the recent years.
On Monday, before leaving Kolkata, Mamata told reporters that apart from raising the issue of BSF's territorial jurisdiction in Bengal, she will flag the recent “atrocities” in Tripura.
“Where have all the human rights organisations gone now?” Mamata said, in an apparent reference to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) committee that was set up on June 21 based on an order of the Calcutta High Court. Several families hit by post-poll violence had approached the Calcutta High Court in this regard. BJP leader Priyanka Tibrewal, who unsuccessfully contested the Bhawanipore bypolls against the TMC supremo, is one of the lawyers in the case.
While the NHRC committee had severely criticised the state government in…
