Three days after the Friday’s attack on the ED officials during a raid at the house of Trinamool Congress strongman Shahjehan Sheikh’s house at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday spoke up saying there were attempts at defaming Bengal on the question of law and order.
“People have started raising questions on the law and order situation of the State which is wrong … I do not mind people calling me names because I am used to it and I have been suffering such attacks from my very childhood … but I feel hurt when they give my State bad name,” Banerjee told at a government function organized for students.
“Very recently Serampore Police Station in our State has been adjudged the best police station in India … and Kolkata has been adjudged the safest city in the country … if the State’s law and order situation had been bad then how would we get such accolades … so this attempt at defaming the State must be stopped and the people of the State must unite against this disinformation campaign,” she said adding how the Centre had stopped funding the fast track courts and how her Government had to bear the costs of running them. “The Centre has not been giving funds for these fast track and POSCO courts but as we are committed to the purpose we are still funding from our meager resources,” Banerjee said. She would not however directly raise the issue of Friday’s attack on the ED officials.
