Three member BJP Parliamentary delegation visits Bhatpara

Kolkata, Jun. (HS): As directed by Union Home minister Amit Shah, a three member BJP Parliamentary delegation, led by party MP Surinder Singh Ahluwalia visited strife torn Bhatpara in North 24 Parganas district this afternoon and met the family members of both the youth who were shot dead allegedly in police firing during a large scale violence in the area on Jun.20.

The three member team which also comprised two senior members of the Lok Sabha – Satyapal Singh, IPS and former Police Commissioner of Mumbai and Vishnu Dayal Ram,another IPS  and former Director General of Police in Jharkhand, soon after their arrival in Kolkata from New Delhi, drove straight to Bhtpara, accompanied by local BJP MP Arjun Singh and several other local party leaders to see for themselves the prevailing situation there after the last Thursday’s violence which left two dead and five others injured in firing.

Soon after their arrival at Bhatpara the BJP  delegation, accompanied by thousands of local people and party supporters went to the residence of  both the deceased – 17 year old Rambabu Shaw and 21 year old Dharamvir Shaw and talked to their family members for sometime to know  under what circumstances they had lost their lives while the mother  Rambabu narrated the delegation how her son was shot dead from a point blank range allegedly by the police when he went to nearby shop, the wife of Dharambir, another petty trader like Rambabu, said her husband was also killed in a similar fashion by the armed police personnel in the midst of a melee and violence in front of their house on that fateful day.

Apart from listening the tales from the victims families Ahaluwalia, BJP MP from Durgapur- Burdwan Lok Sabhas seat, and two others members of the BJP Parliamentary team also talked to several local people including  a school teacher who was injured in alleged police firing on that day.

Later expressing their anguish at the unabated incidents of violence in the entire Industrial belt in the district comprising Bhatpara, Kankinara and Jagaddal areas for nearly a week now, Ahluwalia said it was a very dangerous precedence that even nearly after a month of the declaration of election results, such cycle of violence was being continued in the entire area taking advantage of the utter failure of the state government to take strong action to end the violence once and for all and arrest the miscreants.

Ridiculing the Director General of West Bengal Police Birendra’s statement yesterday that  none was killed in police firing as the firing were not targeted against anybody but was in the air to scare the  criminals and those who had come from outside the state, Ahluwalia said ‘we wonder how these two people were shot dead from point blank range in front of a large crowd and five others injured if the police had indeed fired in the air.

It is such a claim that nobody would belief’,he said and demanded an impartial inquiry into the whole incident.

Asked about their next step all the three MPs said that on their return to New Delhi after reviewing the entire situation in Bhatpara and the neighbouring areas, they would submit a detailed report to Union Home minister and BJP All India President Amit Shah for necessary action as desired by the Centre.

They also criticized the role of the state government for not  taking care of the victims’ families and lauded the efforts of local MP Arjun Singh who had promised to hand over Rs ten lakhs each to the families of both the deceased besides taking full responsibilities of the education of the two children of  Dharamvir Shaw.

More than 5,000 people who accompanied the BJP delegation in their walk towards the victims residences, repetedly shouted Jai Sriram slogans in presence of a large number of police force who however, did not react and allowed the rally to pass through the main thoroughfares of this industrial town, about 30 km from Kolkata.