West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee,in Delhi for the past two days,remained reluctant to issue any official reaction on the killing of Kishenji,while Trinamool brass dodged the media on the subject.
While the killing took place at a time when Mamata was in the Capital,questions were being raised in political circles on whether her government had prior intelligence inputs on the operation.
Fearing backlash from the ultra-Left outfit,the Railways in West Bengal and other Maoist-affected states were put on alert. By evening,instructions went out to the zonal Railways covering West Bengal,Bihar,Orissa,Jharkhand,Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh to beef up station security and deploy additional companies of Railway Protection Force.
Additional patrolling cars were commissioned in several lines. The Railways have been the favourite target of the Maoists. We have been asked to go into a
state of enhanced security mode at stations and trains, said a senior official of Eastern Railway.