NDA team wants areas WB violence-hit areas declared disturbed

Headed by TDP MP Venugopal, the NDA team has urged the Centre to act upon the report on a priority basis as citing the failure of law and order, which they said 8220;will worsen if immediate action is not taken8221;.

The NDA report further said that 8220;the democratic forces in the state are under threat8221; just as 8220;the development in the state has come to a grinding halt8221;.

8220;We have been forced to conclude that in four or five districts the administration is not being run in accordance with the provisions of democratic set-up. It is importance that the Central Government takes cognizance of the situation,8221; the report said.

Sharply reacting to the adverse report, leader of CPIM in Lok Sabha Somnath Chatterjee said: 8220;It is a tailor-made report which is politically motivated to destablise the state government.8221;

Questioning the credibility of the team members, Chatterjee said that the team included a member from Trinamool Congress 8212; which is party to the trouble in the concerned areas. 8220;How can they make sweeping recommendations after visiting one area for just two hours. It is imagination, not fact-finding,8221; he declared.

Chatterjee, whose own constituency Nannur in Bolpur has been affected in the recent spate of violence, said: 8220;While recommending the incidents of violence, we have to take note of the fact that it is synchronised with the emergence of Trinamool Congress.

PTI ADDS: The report says that the 8220;long span of the CPIM misrule had convinced the people of Midnapore and other places that they cannot expect justice from those who are otherwise considered to be the guarantor as well as the protector of the down-trodden8221;.

8220;The team is shocked to note that the so-called protectors of the down-trodden and guardians of democracy are, in fact, harassing and suppressing the poor just because they are politically not in agreement with the power in West Bengal,8221; it added.

Chief whip of the Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha and a member of the fact-finding team Sudip Bandopadhayay said here that he had requested Fernandes to take up the report in the next meeting of the NDA.

Bandopadhyay, who had earlier met Union Home Minister L.K. Advani, said that the issue of law and order situation in the state was likely to figure in the national council meeting of the BJP.