‘Blast at Nimtita railway station results of inner feud in Trinamool’

Image Source : PTI The railway officers’ remarks got here after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee pointed in the direction of a “conspiracy” behind the bomb assault that left her Labour Minister Hossain significantly injured.
The bomb blast on Wednesday night time on the Nimtita railway station in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, which left 25 folks, together with state minister Jakir Hossain, injured, was the results of ‘inner feud’ and ‘political rivalry’ among the many cadres of the ruling Trinamool Congress, folks within the Railway Ministry conscious of the investigation stated on Thursday.

The railway officers’ remarks got here after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday pointed in the direction of a “conspiracy” behind the bomb assault that left her Labour Minister Hossain significantly injured.

Without taking the title of any specific occasion or particular person, Banerjee alleged that some folks have been “pressurising” Hossain to affix their occasion. The West Bengal authorities on Thursday handed over the probe into the matter to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

Banerjee even held the railways accountable for the incident because it befell on its premises when crude bombs have been hurled on Hossain by unidentified individuals on Wednesday night time when he was strolling in the direction of the Nimtita railway station to board a practice for Kolkata.

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“Railways is to be blamed for the blast at Murshidabad where minister Jakir Hossain was injured. It was a planned conspiracy to kill him. Not a responsibility of the state government, Railways and Centre are to be blamed,” Banerjee stated.

The Chief Minister, together with senior Trinamool Congress leaders, went to the state-run SSKM hospital in Kolkata to inquire concerning the well being of Hossain.

A Railway Ministry official within the know of the developments stated that Hossain’s occasion and the CPI(M) are political rivals, because the Trinamool Congress chief had defeated CPI(M) candidate Somnath Singh Rai within the final Assembly polls.

The official identified that CPI(M) had organised a protest close to Trinamool headquarters Nabanna final week, the place the police had resorted to lathi cost to regulate the group, including that one of many CPI(M) staff had succumbed to the accidents he sustained within the lathi cost as a result of which there’s an atmosphere of stress within the space.

The official stated that the CPI(M) had referred to as a ‘rail roko’ from 11 a.m. on Thursday as a mark of protest.

The official stated that there are additionally experiences of inner feud between the ruling occasion staff. He added that Hossain had additionally filed a police grievance in opposition to two Trinamool Congress members in 2017, who have been giving him demise threats.

“This incident is prima facie a result of political rivalry between the Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M) and many have some links to the internal feud among the ruling party cadres,” the official stated.

He stated that the ensuing chaos might disrupt practice operations and trigger inconvenience to most of the people.

The railway official added that the West Bengal authorities ought to tighten the legislation and order scenario within the state and be certain that the culprits are caught on the earliest to revive normalcy within the space.

Earlier within the day, the Railway Ministry had described the bomb blast as an “unfortunate” incident, saying that legislation and order is a state topic and the state police are accountable for a similar.

“It may be noted that law and order is a state subject and state police are fully responsible for the same. Law and order on railway platforms is also under the purview of the Government Rail Police (GRP) of the state government,” the ministry stated in an announcement.

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