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Guwahati, August 4 : Assam police had registered another case against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for making provocative remarks regarding the Assam NRC issue.
According the reports, the Geetanagar police in Guwahati city had registered a case against the West Bengal Chief Minister and eight All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) MPs, MLAs after an Assam based organisation Assam Public Works lodged an FIR.
The Guwahati city police had registered a case (no - 286/18) under sections 20B, 153A and 198 of IPC at Geetanagar police station.
In the FIR copy lodged by Dhrubajyti Talukdar, General Secretary of Assam Public Works stated that, on 30/07/2018, at around 12-00 (Noon) Smti. Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, organized a press meet wherein she made various statements regarding the publication of the draft NRC Her statements were widely published in various News Channels as well as other form of Media across the entire Country. Those statements were totally communal as she tried to colour the process of NRC in Assam with Bengali versus Assamese which is likely to cause breach of peace and tranquility amongst the two communities residing in Assam as well as threat to the life and liberty of Assamese people residing in West Bengal.
“Further those statements of Smti. Mamata Banerjee, has created a tense situation and is on the verge of breaking some communal riot amongst Assamese and Bengali people across the State and other parts of the country as well. To the utter surprise, yesterday an eight member delegates namely Sukhendu Shekhar Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna Dey Nag, Nadimul Haque, Arpita Ghosh, Mamata Thakur, Firhad Hakim and Mahua Moitra landed in Silchar, who had no connection with the process of NRC in Assam, with an intension to aggravate the tense situation created by their party leader Smti. Mamata Banerjee. Despite there being Section 144 in exercise, all the aforesaid eight members created a chaos at the Kumbhirgram Air Port and injured three Police personals namely Champa Das, Partha Shil and Rubirani Das. From the act, conduct and statements of Smti. Mamata Banerjee along with Sukhendu Shekhar Roy, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna Dey Nag, Nadimul Haque, Arpita Ghosh, Mamata Thakur, Firhad Hakim and Mahua Moitra, being the MLA’s, MP’s and office bearers of the political party Trinamul Congress, they are attempting to start communal riot, feelings of enmity, hatred which is to be curbed immediately,” stated in the FIR.
Earlier, Assam police had registered a case (no – 832/2018) under sections 120B and 153A of IPC at the North Lakhimpur Sadar police station following following a complaint filed by Sudipta Hazarika, General Secretary of Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Parishad (AJYP).
Abhijit Sarma, President of Assam Public Works said that, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee tried to create a disturbance atmosphere over the NRC issue.
“She said that, this NRC process is against the Bengalis, Hindus and Muslims. But the NRC process is going on to identify Indian and non-Indian. Yesterday we had filed a case at Geetanagar police station against Mamata Banerjee and few others,” Abhijit Sarma said.
(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)
