"Shows cruelty of Mamata Banerjee's government": BJP's Sudhanshu Trivedi on fact finding commitee report on Murshidabad violence

New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government over the handling of Murshidabad violence that erupted during the protest against the Waqf (amendment) act, stating that the fact-finding SIT's reports revealed government's "cruelty" towards Hindus.
The BJP Rajya Sabha MP said that the SIT report on violence has "clearly" and "unambiguously" indicated that violence was carried out by targeting Hindus and TMC leaders were involved in it.
Further questioning the role of the Police during the violence, Trivedi accused them of ignoring the actions of TMC leaders.
"According to some media reports, the SIT report on Murshidabad violence has clearly and unambiguously indicated that violence was carried out by targeting Hindus and TMC leaders were involved in it and the attitude of the police, instead of stopping the violence, seems to be ignoring the actions of TMC leaders," Trivedi said.
"The chain of violence against Hindus by targeting them is clearly visible from Murshidabad to Pahalgam. The way the facts are coming out from the fact-finding SIT in Murshidabad violence, it is showing the cruelty of Mamata Banerjee's government towards Hindus and the immense affection towards the fundamentalists," he added.
This came after the fact-finding committee set up by Calcutta High Court submitted its report on the Violence that occurred in West Bengal's Murshidabad, highlighting that as many as 113 houses were affected badly in the village of Betbona during the violence.
It stated that the majority of residences had taken shelter in Malda but all of them have been forced to return by the police administration in Betbona village.
The report said, "Attacks were directed by a local councillor," adding that Local Police was completely "inactive and absent".
The report further said that the people want permanent BSF camps and Central Armed Forces for their own protection.
"The West Bengal Police did not respond. The villager of Betbona called at 4p.m. on Friday and 4p.m. on Saturday but police did not pick up the call," the reports added.
"A man came back to the village and saw which houses were not attacked and then the miscreants came and set fire to those houses," the report further added.
The reports also said that the miscreants cut off the water connection so that the fire cannot be extinguished with water. "The miscreants have burnt all the clothes in the house with the kerosene oil and the woman of the house had no clothes to cover her body," it added.
The report referring to the murder of Haragovinda Das (74) and his son Chandan Das (40), the report states, "They broke down the main door of the house and took her son (Chandan Das) and took her husband [Haragovinda Das] and hit them with an axe in the back. A man was waiting there until they died." (ANI)