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Jangalmahal a peace model under TMC govt: Mamata

The West Bengal Chief Minister says Jangalmahal is a success story, model for the entire country.

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Mamata Banerjee at Jhargram. (Source: PTI)

The “success story” of restoration of peace in Jangalmahal, erstwhile a Maoist hotbed, has become a ‘model’ in the entire country, claimed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

“It is a success story. What has not happened in any other part of the country, happened in West Bengal. Peace has returned to Jangalmahal,” Mamata said during a programme here in Jhargram in West Midnapore district which is one of the three districts making up Jangalmahal, the other two being Bankura and Purulia.

“I thank the people of Jangalmahal for their support in bringing peace,” she said.

While distributing prizes to the winners of the Jangalmahal Cup football tournament and kabaddi competition winners, the Chief Minister announced that six hundred police stations in the state would be given a grant of Rs 1 lakh each for development of sports. She also inaugurated the first edition of the three-day “Jangalmahal Utsab” (Festival) here.

Claiming that hundreds of people were killed every year (during the former Left Front regime), she said, “Now there is no death. People want development and peace and not violence,” and added that the Trinamool Congress government has unleashed a tide of development.

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