Assembly elections in Bengal are still some way off. But Trinamool Congress, in anticipation of a regime change, has already begun flexing muscles.

On Wednesday, naming individual IPS officers at a rally in Chinsurah, Hooghly, Trinamool leader and Union Minister of State for Shipping Mukul Roy sent out a strong warning to the state police: act impartially or face heat when the party comes to power.

“Remember IPS officers like Gourab Dutta, Basudeb Bag? Where are they now? Things have not been well for them, things will become hard for them,” the minister said. “I am asking Satyajit babu (Satyajit Bandopadhyay, SP Hooghly) to act neutrally. The CPM is continuing its terror rule in Goghat, Arambagh, Dhaniakhali and other areas of Hooghly. Please take action. I give you 72 hours or else we will stage a protest.”

According to Roy, the party is monitoring action of various IPS officers. “Please read the writing on the wall,” he said. “It is clear that we will come to power in Bengal and Mamata Banerjee will become the Naming cops under scanner, Trinamool minister issues warning chief minister. All IPS officers who are not acting impartially will face very hard times after we sit in Writers’ Buildings.”

On Tuesday night, clashes had broken out inside the Hooghly Imambara Hospital, where three persons were injured.

He praised former DSP headquarters Tathagata Basu, who, according to him, was transferred as the SDPO of Mathabhanga in North Bengal after he lathicharged CPM cadres during Mamata’s recent rally in Hooghly.

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