KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress welcomed West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi''s statement on the post-Lok Sabha poll political violence in the state which, it said, was justification enough for central intervention. Party chief Mamata Banerjee said she agreed with the Governor''s description of the violence in the state as "tandava".
This, she said, was the worst possible criticism that could be made of a state government and an echo of Union home minister P Chidambaram''s recent description of many districts as "killing fields". "What stronger words can be employed than these to describe what is going in West Bengal? This only showed the extent of violence CPI(M) has been indulging in to terrorise opposition parties after its drubbing in the Lok Sabha elections," she told a Bengali news channel in Delhi.
Without directly referring to the Article 355, she said West Bengal was a fit case for Central intervention. "The Centre should intervene.
It is the responsibility of the Centre to protect the people belonging to the minority communities, Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes who were being tortured in Bengal". "There is no rule of law in West Bengal and this government has no moral right to continue in office," she said.
