India
oi-Smita Mishra
To declare victims of firing as ‘martyr’ before enquiry will only give appeasement ammunition to BJP
One may or may not agree with the Bengal Tigress sobriquet but nobody disagrees that Mamata Bannerjee is a street fighter. So, true to her character Didi landed in Sitalkuchi as soon as the EC’s restriction period expired on Wednesday. She met the grieving families of the victims who died in a firing incident by CISF personnel on voting day there. She expressed her sympathies and promised to ‘take care’ of all their needs, if not now, certainly post elections. She said the guilty would be punished. It was left unspoken what she meant by ‘guilty’ but the implication that she meant the jawans was almost clear. But she did not stop at the assurance of justice. She went on to announce that a ‘Shaheed’ monument would be built in the memory of the dead.
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