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Cong takes on TC over dengue, crime
The West Bengal Congress on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee Government for “allowing the State to lapse into complete anarchy in all sectors from Agriculture to Health and Home”.
With their mutual chemistry dropping to that pre-2009 and the two parties deciding to contest the coming panchayat elections separately, State Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya held the Trinamool Government responsible for the “deteriorating law and order situation in general and the rising graph of crime against women in particular” and asked the Government to “take action or face agitation”.
Bhattacharya, also a Congress Rajya Saba member, who was addressing an impressive rally on Monday, demanded an all-party meeting to tackle the situation. “The State is fast slipping into anarchy and an all-party meeting is the need of the hour,” he said.
The Congressman criticised Banerjee’s move to provide monetary compensation to rape victims as inadequate.
“Today Bengal has jumped to No 2 in the nation in the matter of crime against women. Everyday there is a rape. At this juncture the people of the State do not want compensation of `20,000 or `30,000 to the rape victims but protection against such crime,” Bhattacharya said.
Monday’s broadside launched by Bhattacharya was significant because this is the first time the Congress was attacking the bigger ally in the State at a public rally.
The Chief Minister had earlier declared a compensation of `20,000 to minor rape victims, `30,000 to rape victims who were major and a sum of `2 lakh to the next of kin of those who had been raped and murdered. She also declared a compensation of `50,000 to those who had been rendered 80 per cent handicapped. Apart from this women and minor who were victims of trafficking would get a compensation of `10,000.
The PCC president also attacked the State Government for failing to check dengue which had nearly spread to an epidemic level claiming 36 people from the State and 26 victims from Capital Kolkata. At least 3,200 patients had been inflicted by the virus.
“The Government sitting idle and making false claims in order to suppress the facts whereas dengue is spreading like an epidemic,” Bhattacharya said asking the Chief Minister to take action immediately.
The West Bengal Congress on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee Government for “allowing the State to lapse into complete anarchy in all sectors from Agriculture to Health and Home”.
With their mutual chemistry dropping to that pre-2009 and the two parties deciding to contest the coming panchayat elections separately, State Congress president Pradip Bhattacharya held the Trinamool Government responsible for the “deteriorating law and order situation in general and the rising graph of crime against women in particular” and asked the Government to “take action or face agitation”.
Bhattacharya, also a Congress Rajya Saba member, who was addressing an impressive rally on Monday, demanded an all-party meeting to tackle the situation. “The State is fast slipping into anarchy and an all-party meeting is the need of the hour,” he said.
The Congressman criticised Banerjee’s move to provide monetary compensation to rape victims as inadequate.
“Today Bengal has jumped to No 2 in the nation in the matter of crime against women. Everyday there is a rape. At this juncture the people of the State do not want compensation of `20,000 or `30,000 to the rape victims but protection against such crime,” Bhattacharya said.
Monday’s broadside launched by Bhattacharya was significant because this is the first time the Congress was attacking the bigger ally in the State at a public rally.
The Chief Minister had earlier declared a compensation of `20,000 to minor rape victims, `30,000 to rape victims who were major and a sum of `2 lakh to the next of kin of those who had been raped and murdered. She also declared a compensation of `50,000 to those who had been rendered 80 per cent handicapped. Apart from this women and minor who were victims of trafficking would get a compensation of `10,000.
The PCC president also attacked the State Government for failing to check dengue which had nearly spread to an epidemic level claiming 36 people from the State and 26 victims from Capital Kolkata. At least 3,200 patients had been inflicted by the virus.
“The Government sitting idle and making false claims in order to suppress the facts whereas dengue is spreading like an epidemic,” Bhattacharya said asking the Chief Minister to take action immediately.
