Centre seeks report from West Bengal government on security lapses during BJP chief Nadda’s visit
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The Union Home Ministry’s communication to the West Bengal government got here after BJP State unit Chief Dilip Ghosh wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on November 9.
The Centre on Thursday sought a report from the West Bengal government on alleged “serious security lapses” during the visit of BJP president J.P. Nadda to the State, officers stated.
The Union Home Ministry’s communication to the West Bengal government got here after BJP State unit Chief Dilip Ghosh wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday.
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In his letter, Mr. Ghosh alleged {that a} “mob” of over 200 folks with sticks and bamboos had been demonstrating elevating black flags in entrance of BJP’s State unit workplace in Kolkata.
He additionally claimed that a few of the protesters climbed on automobiles parked outdoors the social gathering’s workplace and raised slogans and the “police did not intervene to stop them and casually allowed them to come within a close perimeter of Nadda ji’s vehicle”.
The Ministry has sought a report from the West Bengal government on the alleged “serious security lapses” during the BJP president’s visit, the circumstances and what motion has been taken on it, a Home Ministry official stated.
In his letter on Wednesday, Mr. Ghosh had additionally stated, “Today during his different engagement in Kolkata, it was observed that there was serious lapses on security arrangements, purportedly due to negligence and/or casual approach of the State police department.”
Mr. Nadda is on a two-day visit to West Bengal, the place Assembly election is due subsequent yr, and on Thursday, stones had been hurled at his convoy, when it was on its solution to Diamond Harbour in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district from Kolkata.
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