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CPM Asks Centre, Why Trinamool Ministers Visited Lalgarh?

The CPM has accused the two Trinamool Congress leaders – minister in central government – who recently visited Lagarh, of “inciting violence” and asked the Centre to explain why they were permitted to visit the place despited Home Ministry directives against such trips.

“At a time when joint operations to contain Maoist violence is going on, they visited the area yesterday, incited violence and provoked confrontation with security forces, thereby giving sustenance to Maoist violence and endangering the unity and integrity of the country,” CPM leader Sitaram Yechury told reporters in New Delhi.

Basudeb Acharia, CPM leader, claimed that the two ministers, Mukul Roy and Shishir Adhikari, violated Section 144 CrPC by addressing a public meeting and “spoke against the presence of central forces in the area and the joint operations carried by them and the state police.”

Maintaining that the Cabinet Committee on Security had decided to send central forces to Lalgarh, he asked “how can Ministers speak against a decision of the Cabinet? Isn’t it the collective responsibility of the Ministers to go by these decisions.”

Noting that the Home Ministry had earlier directed that no central minister should visit Lalgarh when anti-Maoist operations were on, Mr. Acharia and Mr. Yechury demanded that the Centre should clarify why the two Ministers were allowed to visit the area and take “necessary action”.

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