Mamata Banerjee Tears Into UPSC For “BJP Question” On Bengal Poll Violence

Kolkata:

A query in a extremely aggressive examination for jobs within the central police forces has grow to be one other level of battle between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the centre.

Ms Banerjee on Thursday alleged the Union Public Service Fee (UPSC), which conducts nationwide exams for civil and armed police providers, is asking check questions “given by the BJP” and weakening its basis as an neutral physique.

In one of many 200-word questions for entry to the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), candidates have been requested to put in writing a report on “ballot violence in West Bengal”.

“The UPSC is asking BJP’s questions. UPSC was once an neutral physique however the BJP is giving it inquiries to ask. Even the query in a UPSC paper on the protest by farmers was politically motivated,” Ms Banerjee informed reporters in Kolkata. “The BJP is destroying establishments just like the UPSC,” she stated.

Her feedback got here whereas saying easing of COVID-19 restrictions in Bengal.

The Trinamool Congress retained energy in Bengal within the meeting election this 12 months, although Ms Banerjee herself misplaced the election in Nandigram. The BJP has alleged that the state has gone delicate on curbing post-poll violence that particularly focused its supporters and leaders following their defeat within the election.

Ms Banerjee’s occasion and the Bengal authorities preserve the stories of post-election violence have been vastly exaggerated, with faux movies and pictures, and many of the incidents of violence that occurred round counting day on Might 2, when the state police have been beneath the management of the Election Fee.

Final month, in an indictment of the Trinamool authorities, a committee fashioned by the Nationwide Human Rights Fee on the order of the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom had stated the state of affairs within the state was a manifestation of “regulation of ruler” as an alternative of “rule of regulation”.

Ms Banerjee then shortly identified a person within the committee was a “BJP man”, and claimed that the post-poll violence narrative was concocted by the BJP, bitter over the election loss.

“One NHRC member has turned out to be a BJP man. He was previously a frontline ABVP official. I feel he has merely passed by the BJP model and contributed his half to the report,” Ms Banerjee informed reporters in Kolkata on July 22.

The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom, nevertheless, criticised the Mamata Banerjee authorities as being in “denial mode” concerning the violence that erupted in Might.