Take responsibility for attack on Mamata: TMC to EC

TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ Trinamool Congress on Thursday slammed the Election Commission for failing to provide security to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was injured during election campaign in Nandigram, and said the EC can’t shun responsibility as it is in charge of law and order situation in the poll-bound West Bengal.

Accusing the EC of acting “as per orders” of the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders, the TMC delegation after meeting the EC officials in Kolkata, alleged that the “Election Commission did nothing despite there being reports of a possible attack on Banerjee”.”The law and order situation in Bengal was good. But, after announcement of elections law and order become responsibility of the EC.

“The EC removed DGP of the state police and the very next day she was attacked,” TMC secretary-general Partha Chatterjee said. Claiming that several comments by senior BJP leaders had dropped enough indications that Banerjee might be attacked, Chatterjee said “despite having those inputs the chief minister was left with no proper security”.