Kolkata: Trinamool Congress Demands judicial inquiry into the killing of 14 civilians by security forces on Monday Nagalandof Mon district and demanded that the Union Home Minister Amit Shah Resigned, “taking collective responsibility for what he claimed was an intelligence failure”.
The party said that Shah has failed to discharge his duty in providing security to the citizens of the country, after the party held a meeting of chief ministers of north-eastern states to resolve the issues related to the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act through talks. demanded.
TMC MP Sushmita Dev referred to the Centre’s decision to increase the jurisdiction of the BSF and said the killings in an anti-insurgency operation in Nagaland proved how things “go wrong” if the Center interferes in the state’s jurisdiction. can”.
Trinamool MPs speak to the media after high drama at the Kolkata airport, in which a team of five members – MPs Prasun Banerjee, Dev, Aparupa Poddar, Shantanu Sen and party spokesperson Biswajit Deb – canceled their trip to Nagaland. The decision was taken minutes after their boarding passes were collected. The delegation was ready to meet the families of those killed in the firing.
Dev and Sen explained why they received instructions from the “highest leadership” to cancel the yatra despite submitting their boarding passes. “We were told that Section 144 of CrPC has been imposed in the area. This is very different from Hathras, where we divided ourselves into two teams and reached out to the victims. Also, no vehicle movement is allowed except for medical emergencies. We were going there via Jorhat. It would have been a 12-hour drive to Mon, but we would not have been allowed inside Nagaland in a car with an Assamese number plate,” said Dev.
Sen said he did not want to give “ammunition” to the BJP for claiming that the TMC was meant to create “anarchy and political opportunism”. “We are there to stand with the victims, not to do politics,” he said.
“We promise to be with the victims and reach out to them as soon as the situation normalises,” Dev said. “It is imperative that the Center constitute a committee to see whether AFSPA working in this country or not,” she said.
TMC MP in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay Talked about the issue. He said the situation in Nagaland should not be allowed to deteriorate further and demanded that maximum compensation be given to the next of kin of those killed.
The party said that Shah has failed to discharge his duty in providing security to the citizens of the country, after the party held a meeting of chief ministers of north-eastern states to resolve the issues related to the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act through talks. demanded.
TMC MP Sushmita Dev referred to the Centre’s decision to increase the jurisdiction of the BSF and said the killings in an anti-insurgency operation in Nagaland proved how things “go wrong” if the Center interferes in the state’s jurisdiction. can”.
Trinamool MPs speak to the media after high drama at the Kolkata airport, in which a team of five members – MPs Prasun Banerjee, Dev, Aparupa Poddar, Shantanu Sen and party spokesperson Biswajit Deb – canceled their trip to Nagaland. The decision was taken minutes after their boarding passes were collected. The delegation was ready to meet the families of those killed in the firing.
Dev and Sen explained why they received instructions from the “highest leadership” to cancel the yatra despite submitting their boarding passes. “We were told that Section 144 of CrPC has been imposed in the area. This is very different from Hathras, where we divided ourselves into two teams and reached out to the victims. Also, no vehicle movement is allowed except for medical emergencies. We were going there via Jorhat. It would have been a 12-hour drive to Mon, but we would not have been allowed inside Nagaland in a car with an Assamese number plate,” said Dev.
Sen said he did not want to give “ammunition” to the BJP for claiming that the TMC was meant to create “anarchy and political opportunism”. “We are there to stand with the victims, not to do politics,” he said.
“We promise to be with the victims and reach out to them as soon as the situation normalises,” Dev said. “It is imperative that the Center constitute a committee to see whether AFSPA working in this country or not,” she said.
TMC MP in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandyopadhyay Talked about the issue. He said the situation in Nagaland should not be allowed to deteriorate further and demanded that maximum compensation be given to the next of kin of those killed.
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