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On a day, 20 February, the Trinamul Congress held a rally on Mayo Road, plumb in the middle of the city’s business district, plunging the traffic into chaos far and beyond, the chieftain’s goons organised an assault on Mamta Jaiswal, mayor of Howrah.
The shameless hoods also heckled, and attempted to molest a woman constable at Barasat. They had ganged up with ‘Maoists’ on the previous day, 19 February in Midnapore west to kill a CPI (M) worker. Is this the ‘change’ the parivartan-wallahs are shouting themselves hoarse about?
The heinous attack on Howrah mayor started when the mayor learnt that a Trinamuli councillor in ward 3 of the Howrah municipal corporation (HMC) had for some time been allowing, at a ‘cost,’ old and dangerous buildings to continue as they were. On Sunday morning, Mamta Jaiswal learnt that one of such building at Dharamtolla, Howrah had partly collapsed.
She made post haste to reach the spot and started the legal demolition work. The Trinamuli councillor who received notice of the demolition work chose, instead of cooperating, to gather together a bunch of villainous hoodlums who went to manhandle the mayor, snatching from her purse, and even trying to molest her.
When Mamta and the HMC personnel went to lodge an FIR at the local police station, the miscreants gave chase with iron rods, and sharp, cutting weapons. At least one carried and flourished a gun. They were brazen enough to attack a CPI (M) leader of long-standing Nemai Samanta right in front of the Thana. Several CPI (M) workers went down with hits on the head.
At the call of the CPI (M), a bandh was observed in protest, on 21 February, in north Howrah whiles a district-wide programme of condemnation has been successfully carried out throughout the industrial district.
Even as the mayor was subject to assault, the Barasat brethren of the Howrah hoods did something equally condemnable. A woman constable was looking after the flow of traffic at the colony crossing, and she saw several small trucks approaching recklessly fast, and along the wrong side of the road, packed with Trinamuli goons, waving flags as well as containers of the spirited kind.
An ambulance approached the crossing from the left, hooters a-blare, blue top-mounted light flashing, carrying a patient in serious conditions. The constable in her full dress uniform correctly put up her hand, signalled, and stopped the goonloads of trucks in order to let the ambulance have priority of way. This enraged the besotted villains. Dozens of them, wielding lathis, alighted and surrounded the constable.
She was set upon, heckled, beaten up mercilessly, and the attackers even tried to outrage her modesty even as she screamed out for help. She shrieked in desperation, as she was then fisticuffed, and dragged to the first of the two trucks -- dragged and pulled aboard. The people of the area rallied at her cry, and rescued her, whilst driving the attackers off and finally chasing them away, trucks abandoned, the drivers fled. Had it not been for the people, one shudders at the doom that awaited the woman constable.
On 19 January, elsewhere in Bengal at Lodhashuli in Midnapore west, the ‘Maoists’ with ready assistance and locational guidance of Trinamuli goondas brutally gunned down a CPI (M) worker, comrade Bablu Mahato. Comrade Bablu was a member of the Lodhashuli local committee. On Friday evening (18 February), comrade Bablu had been accosted by two dozen armed men who put blinders on him, bound his hands and feet, and dragged him away struggling into the dense of forestry. The criminals involved were known ‘Maoists.’
As comrade Bablu’s last remains, recovered on Saturday prove, he was subjected to heinous torture, and then shot twice in the back of the head, mafia execution style. The body of the martyr carried ‘Maoist’ posters on it, with disgusting claims in graffiti of having deliberately done the heinous deed. Comrade Bablu leaves behind a bereaved and aged mother, a piteously grieving wife, and an orphaned son-and-daughter.
Comrade Bablu’s murder, the attack on the Howrah mayor, and the assault on the woman constable, all signs and signals, worrying and ominous, of the ‘political’ goings on of the Trinamulis and their henchmen, have been sternly condemned by Bengal CPI (M) secretary Biman Basu.
The shameless hoods also heckled, and attempted to molest a woman constable at Barasat. They had ganged up with ‘Maoists’ on the previous day, 19 February in Midnapore west to kill a CPI (M) worker. Is this the ‘change’ the parivartan-wallahs are shouting themselves hoarse about?
The heinous attack on Howrah mayor started when the mayor learnt that a Trinamuli councillor in ward 3 of the Howrah municipal corporation (HMC) had for some time been allowing, at a ‘cost,’ old and dangerous buildings to continue as they were. On Sunday morning, Mamta Jaiswal learnt that one of such building at Dharamtolla, Howrah had partly collapsed.
She made post haste to reach the spot and started the legal demolition work. The Trinamuli councillor who received notice of the demolition work chose, instead of cooperating, to gather together a bunch of villainous hoodlums who went to manhandle the mayor, snatching from her purse, and even trying to molest her.
When Mamta and the HMC personnel went to lodge an FIR at the local police station, the miscreants gave chase with iron rods, and sharp, cutting weapons. At least one carried and flourished a gun. They were brazen enough to attack a CPI (M) leader of long-standing Nemai Samanta right in front of the Thana. Several CPI (M) workers went down with hits on the head.
At the call of the CPI (M), a bandh was observed in protest, on 21 February, in north Howrah whiles a district-wide programme of condemnation has been successfully carried out throughout the industrial district.
Even as the mayor was subject to assault, the Barasat brethren of the Howrah hoods did something equally condemnable. A woman constable was looking after the flow of traffic at the colony crossing, and she saw several small trucks approaching recklessly fast, and along the wrong side of the road, packed with Trinamuli goons, waving flags as well as containers of the spirited kind.
An ambulance approached the crossing from the left, hooters a-blare, blue top-mounted light flashing, carrying a patient in serious conditions. The constable in her full dress uniform correctly put up her hand, signalled, and stopped the goonloads of trucks in order to let the ambulance have priority of way. This enraged the besotted villains. Dozens of them, wielding lathis, alighted and surrounded the constable.
She was set upon, heckled, beaten up mercilessly, and the attackers even tried to outrage her modesty even as she screamed out for help. She shrieked in desperation, as she was then fisticuffed, and dragged to the first of the two trucks -- dragged and pulled aboard. The people of the area rallied at her cry, and rescued her, whilst driving the attackers off and finally chasing them away, trucks abandoned, the drivers fled. Had it not been for the people, one shudders at the doom that awaited the woman constable.
On 19 January, elsewhere in Bengal at Lodhashuli in Midnapore west, the ‘Maoists’ with ready assistance and locational guidance of Trinamuli goondas brutally gunned down a CPI (M) worker, comrade Bablu Mahato. Comrade Bablu was a member of the Lodhashuli local committee. On Friday evening (18 February), comrade Bablu had been accosted by two dozen armed men who put blinders on him, bound his hands and feet, and dragged him away struggling into the dense of forestry. The criminals involved were known ‘Maoists.’
As comrade Bablu’s last remains, recovered on Saturday prove, he was subjected to heinous torture, and then shot twice in the back of the head, mafia execution style. The body of the martyr carried ‘Maoist’ posters on it, with disgusting claims in graffiti of having deliberately done the heinous deed. Comrade Bablu leaves behind a bereaved and aged mother, a piteously grieving wife, and an orphaned son-and-daughter.
Comrade Bablu’s murder, the attack on the Howrah mayor, and the assault on the woman constable, all signs and signals, worrying and ominous, of the ‘political’ goings on of the Trinamulis and their henchmen, have been sternly condemned by Bengal CPI (M) secretary Biman Basu.
