Terrible Optics: Center didn’t ship any consultant in Court listening to about Bengal violence

After the West Bengal Assembly polls, allegations of post-poll violence dominated the political panorama for a number of months. Heavyweight BJP leaders like Leader of Opposition in Bengal meeting Suvendu Adhikari saved elevating the problem and BJP President JP Nadda even in contrast the post-poll violence in West Bengal to the partition days.Some alleged victims of post-poll violence, together with gang-rape survivors moved the Supreme Court for pro-active motion within the matter. All this whereas, the BJP saved claiming that its sympathizers/ staff had been wronged within the post-poll violence. However, when issues moved in the direction of an affordable conclusion, the Centre determined to again off and keep away from representing itself earlier than the apex court docket within the ongoing petition referring to West Bengal post-poll violence.On Friday, the Supreme Court stated that it’s going to take up the petition concerning judicial probe into post-poll violence after two weeks as no lawyer appeared within the case for the Centre or the West Bengal authorities regardless of the Court issuing notices to them on July 1.An apex court docket bench comprising Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari said, “The office report states that respondent 1 (Union of India) and respondent 2 (State of West Bengal) have been served with the petition but are not represented through any counsel.”The solely celebration that appeared was the Election Commission of India, represented via advocate Amit Sharma. However, the apex court docket famous that the Centre and the State are the required events on this case. Therefore, it allowed the petitioner’s counsel to serve the petition as soon as once more on the 2 governments and directed that the matter be put up after two weeks.At the tip of the day, the truth that the Centre didn’t even hassle to place up an look over the case speaks volumes about its lack of seriousness. Till now, the post-poll violence in West Bengal was supposedly a matter of grave concern for the highest brass of the ruling BJP. However, the Centre appears to be treating its staff as expendables. On one hand, the BJP alleges that its staff/ sympathizers bought victimized and alternatively, the Centre doesn’t really feel {that a} petition for such staff deserves any well timed illustration.The absence of a counsel for the Centre earlier than the Supreme Court has already triggered offended reactions on social media. Abhijit Iyer-Mitra, for instance, tweeted, “The BJP takes the lives of its workers & voters in Bengal so seriously that it didn’t even bother making a representation…….didn’t even bother.”The BJP takes the lives of its staff & voters in Bengal so critically that it didn’t even hassle making a illustration…….didn’t even hassle. https://t.co/ylY6YGp93s— Abhijit Iyer-Mitra (@Iyervval) July 30, 2021Similar reactions had been truly seen everywhere in the social media, with social media customers asking why the Central authorities isn’t doing sufficient to make sure speedy disposal of the complaints referring to post-poll violence within the state of West Bengal after the petition has been taken up for listening to within the Supreme Court.In #WestBengal post-poll violence case, #SupremeCourt had issued notices to Union & state authorities on July 1.Around a month later, the Centre would not even seem immediately within the case to say something. There was no counsel showing. Court adjourns the case by two weeks.— Utkarsh Anand (@utkarsh_aanand) July 30, 2021The first step in making lives of some expendable is to dehumanize them. It began with murders of BJP and RSS members in Kerala being (expressly and implicitly) acceptable. Story repeats in Bengal. As lengthy because it’s BJP/RSS members who’re being killed, it is acceptable now.— Abhishek Dwivedi (@Rezang_La) July 30, 2021 Centre’s failure to seem earlier than the Surpeme Court when the petition about post-poll violence in Bengal got here up for listening to makes for actually unhealthy optics. The most instant presumption that one can draw is that every one the hullabaloo concerning violence towards its staff and gory particulars of heinous crimes had been used to attract public sympathy, however as soon as the aim was achieved the Centre merely determined to cease pursuing the matter and abandon the alleged victims.