Terror groups trying to destabilise peace before Aug 15, says CM Mamata Banerjee

An alert has been sounded at airports, railway stations, important public places and all vital installations across the state: CM Mamata Banerjee

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, before leaving for Delhi on Monday afternoon, said some terrorist groups were trying to destabilise peace in Bengal before the Independence Day. She said she has received a detailed input from the Intelligence Bureau in this regard.

Speaking to mediapersons at the state secretariat, Mamata said: “An alert has been sounded at airports, railway stations, important public places and all vital installations across the state.” She added the suspicion was raised after around 100 kg of explosives were recovered from Murshidabad district’s Raghunathganj area. Mamata said she had ordered a CID probe into the incident.

“Some organisations, backed by a political party, were trying to create trouble ahead of Independence Day in Kolkata,” she claimed.

Police had busted a terror den at Raghunathganj last Saturday and made some arrests. Intelligence agencies had earlier sounded an alert of a major terror attack in Kolkata and across the state on or before August 15, police sources said.

Meanwhile, Mamata said that Bengal had launched its own cleanliness campaign before Prime Minster Narendra Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. “West Bengal had embarked on the ‘Nirmal Bangla Abhiyan’ three years ago and we were the first one in the country having undertaken such a campaign,” she told mediapersons at the
airport.

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