KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday requested the Centre to maneuver the United Nations to hunt deployment of peacekeeping forces in Bangladesh the place minorities have come below assault.
The chief minister additionally demanded that the exterior affairs minister ought to apprise Parliament of India’s stand on the present state of affairs.
Banerjee additionally hit again at state leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) for threatening to carry protests close to the Petrapole worldwide border in North 24 Parganas district and disrupt commerce between the 2 international locations, saying the settlement was between the 2 international locations and it was for the Centre to take any motion.
“Why don’t they ask their central management to pursue the Centre to proactively intervene within the Bangladesh state of affairs? As an alternative, their leaders are demanding closure of products motion alongside our land borders,” she mentioned.
“There’s a border settlement between the 2 international locations. If solely the Union authorities points any advisory to cease commerce, solely then we will do it. It’s not inside our jurisdiction,” she instructed the state meeting on Monday.
The chief minister requested the Centre to take the problem up with the Bangladesh authorities and, if needed, with the United Nations. “The Union authorities ought to take up the matter with the UN in order that they will ship the peacekeeping pressure to Bangladesh and rescue our individuals. That is my request and submission,” Banerjee mentioned whereas talking on the state legislative meeting.
Banerjee mentioned there was an pressing must rescue persecuted Indians and rehabilitate them on this aspect of the border. “If the current state of affairs prevails, the Centre ought to take steps in order that our individuals might return. There received’t be any downside about meals and lodging. We are going to share our ‘one roti’ with them however we don’t need any Indian to be tortured,” she mentioned.
Chief of Opposition within the state meeting Suvendu Adhikari, who was headed to Petrapole border to take part in a protest demonstration of Hindu monks, mentioned, “She has her MPs who ought to elevate the matter in Parliament as a mirrored image of her proper political will. This isn’t a political problem, however an existential disaster of the Bengali-speaking Hindus, and the chief minister ought to rise above politics to face beside them”.
In line with information company PTI, Adhikari, nonetheless, welcomed Banerjee’s name for UN peacekeepers’ deployment in Bangladesh, claiming it was he who had made the identical demand a few days in the past.
Amit Malviya, the get together’s co-in-charge for Bengal, requested Mamata Banerjee to “shedding crocodile tears for Hindus in Bangladesh”. “Not too way back, she had personally focused monks and Hindu non secular organisations just like the Ramakrishna Mission, Bharat Sevashram Sangha and ISKCON in West Bengal, to consolidate her Muslim vote financial institution. 1000’s of saffron-clad sadhus and lakhs of Hindu devotees had hit the streets in Kolkata, in protest,” he added.
