Trinamool Congress MP Sougata- The New Indian Express

By PTI

KOLKATA: In a humiliation for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) management, the celebration’s Lok Sabha MP Sougata Roy on Tuesday criticised the widespread violence through the civic ballot in West Bengal and stated it ought to have been averted because it sends out a incorrect message among the many folks.

On Sunday instances of violence and malpractices marred the election to 107 municipalities throughout West Bengal. “The incidents of violence ought to have been averted because it sends out a incorrect message among the many plenty. What is going on shouldn’t be good. If such incidents preserve occurring, folks will lose religion in us,” Roy instructed a TV information channel.

He had stirred a hornet’s nest forward of the Kolkata Municipal Company ballot final 12 months by saying that the celebration won’t settle for the usage of violence throughout it as TMC needed to pay a heavy value due to it through the 2018 panchayat ballot.

Requested what he thought was the primary purpose behind the violence through the civic ballot, Roy stated, “We (TMC) will win based mostly on the work finished by us, there was no want for resorting to violence …Possibly the lust for energy or another purpose, I do not know.I’m not conscious whether or not the celebration’s messages for zero tolerance to violence percolated to the grassroots stage.”

When contacted by PTI, Roy stated he was not conscious of any message of zero tolerance to violence through the civic ballot this time by the celebration’s high brass.

Roy, who was not too long ago dropped from the celebration’s nationwide working committee, had supported the thought of “one individual, one submit” within the celebration espoused by the next-gen leaders near TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

Widespread violence, rigging and clashes with the police had been reported from numerous elements of Bengal from the north to the south in one of the intensive electoral workouts within the state for the reason that meeting polls final 12 months.

Opposition BJP had dubbed the ballot course of as a “mockery of democracy” and referred to as a 12-hour shutdown on Monday to protest the violence. The TMC dubbed the allegations as baseless and stated opposition events are looking for excuses sensing defeat.

The votes might be counted on March 2.