November 6, 2024

Present situation in Bengal may lead to President’s Rule, feels Kailash Vijayvargiya ..

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Bolpur(Birbhum)/ Kolkata, Dec 18 (HS): Senior BJP  leader and the Central party Observer for West Bengal Kailash Vijaybargiya today hinted that if the unabated violence and protest against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizenship(NRC) continued in the state with overt support from the state government, the Centre might consider imposing the President’s rule in the state.
He made his remarks on his arrival in this district town of Birbhum district here today for a party program. Vijaybargiya wondered how a Chief Minister of a state could oppose both these Central Acts after their passage in both Houses of Parliament with a huge majority and spend government money for issuing advertisements against it.
Coming down heavily on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly misguiding the general public with wrong interpretation of both  CAA and NRC, the BJP leader also blamed her for allegedly inciting people against the union government and deliberately taking no step to stop the violence by unruly mob for three days last week leading to huge loss of government and railway property worth more than Rs 200 crores.
When asked whether such deliberate lawlessness in the state could force the Union government to impose Article 356  or the President’s rule in West Bengal, Vijaybarigya replied in the positive and said he did not rule out any such possibility in near future. It may be recalled that similar views were also expressed by another senior BJP leader and former state party President Rahul Sinha during random violence in the state in the name protests against CAA and NRC.
Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today led her third public rally in as many days and this time in Howrah district to generate public opinion against CAA and NRC. Like the last two days, she once again reiterated her determination not to allow the introduction of any of these two Central acts in West Bengal ’till her death’. As police cordoned off the entire rally site  in Howrah Maidan, several thousand people, mostly her party supporters, took part in the rally and the subsequent walk up to the Dorina crossing in central Kolkata shouting anti-BJP and anti-Central Government slogans