Mamata to parade them before Chidambaram and press for Article 356

Seeking to put the beleaguered state government on the mat and press for the imposition of Article 356 in the state, Trinamool leader and Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal Partho Chatterjee left for Delhi today along with the family members of the policemen who were reportedly abducted by Maoists in Lalgarh in July.

The Trinamool wants to parade the family members before Union Home Minister P Chidambaram so that they could recount their woes and alleged apathy on the part of the state government.

While Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee left for Delhi by air, Chatterjee, the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, boarded the Howrah-Delhi Rajdhani Express along with the family members of Kanchan Gorai and Sabir Mollah, the policemen missing since July 10.

“We will expose before the Union government how the CPM-led state government is doing nothing for the missing cops. I demand Article 356 be imposed in Bengal as the state government has failed to maintain law and order. In fact, the CPM and Maoists have a secret pact here,” Banerjee said at her Kalighat residence before leaving for Delhi.

Chatterjee is escorting Basudeb Gorai and Minati Gorai, parents of missing constable Kanchan Gorai, as well as Sabir Mollah’s brother, Sharif Mollah, and his wife, Dalia, in the train.

“It’s been nearly three months since the cops have been missing. The state government is yet to find them or give any concrete information on them. How can such a thing happen in Lalgarh despite Section 144 there? The family members will themselves express their trauma in Delhi,” Chatterjee said at Howrah station.

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