BJP activists exhibit earlier than Raj Bhavan demanding President Rule in Bengal

By PTI

KOLKATA: A bunch of BJP staff on Tuesday demonstrated earlier than Raj Bhavan right here to demand the imposition of President’s Rule within the state citing the “collapse of law and order” within the state.

About 20 demonstrators, led by BJP chief and councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation Sajal Ghosh, raised slogans ‘ei Trinamool aar noy’ (not this TMC-run authorities anymore), obilombe Rastrapatir Sashon jari korte hobey'(demand fast imposition of President’s Rule), and in addition tried to squat on the highway in entrance of the Main Gate of the Raj Bhavan earlier than they have been faraway from the spot.

The activists staged the agitation in entrance of the Raj Bhavan regardless of the issuance of Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code within the high-security space.

“From Anis Khan murder to the incident at Bogtui where nine people were burnt to death, gang rape and death of a 14-year- old girl in Hanskhali to the attack on Ram Navami processionists in Howrah, this government under Mamata Banerjee has miserably failed to prevent such incidents,” Ghosh claimed.

Demanding Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar’s intervention, Ghosh stated “Article 365 should be immediately promulgated in West Bengal to put an end to this lawlessness”.

Under Article 365 of the Constitution, if a state authorities is unable to perform based on Constitutional provisions, the Centre can take direct management of the State equipment.

A police officer stated round 20 BJP activists have been taken to Lalbazar, Kolkata Police headquarters, for violating prohibitory orders. They have been, nonetheless, launched on private bond.

Trinamool Congress state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated “the BJP is yet to accept its humiliating defeat in the last assembly polls and is now conspiring against a democratically elected government.” However, the sport plan of the saffron social gathering won’t succeed, he added.