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    Bengal: Opposition parties make moves to extract mileage over Bhangar killings

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    Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress and their government have launched a damage control exercise after killings of two Bhangar residents.

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    KOLKATA: Key opposition parties like CPIM and Congress are making all possible moves to extract political mileage over the Bhangar incident in which two persons were killed on Tuesday. CPIM polit bureau has already issued a statement on Wednesday condemning killings of two locals of Bhangar. State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury had visited Bhangar and demanded a CBI investigation into the killings.

    CPIM polit bureau, in a statement on Wednesday has condemned police repression at Bhangar. " The local people have been protesting against the acquisition of land for a power grid project. The Trinamool Congress government should stop using force against the protesters. It should open talks with the people to settle the issue. There can be no forcible acquisition of land," the CPIM has said.

    State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury blamed chief minister Mamata Banerjee for not visiting Bhangar even three days after violence broke out in the area and two persons had died in the locality. "Mamata Banerjee used to visit Singur and Nandigram frequently. She blocked Durgapur Expressway for more than two weeks. But she is yet to visit Bhangar where two persons were killed. Killings of these persons have taken place during her regime as the chief minister. Why she is not visiting Bhangar to meet the local people?," asked Chowdhury.

    Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress and their government have launched a damage control exercise after killings of two Bhangar residents. Mamata held a high-level meeting with senior state police and CID officials on Wednesday and asked the police to handle Bhangar incident in a restrained manned. It is learnt that the chief minister has asked the police not to harass the local people of Bhangar and try to identify the outsiders who had managed to sneak into Bhangar and had reportedly used fire arms on the local people.

    Bengal police, on the other hand, denied that they had opened fire on Bhangar villagers and held some miscreants, mostly outsiders, responsible for deaths of two local people. The state administration is also not ruling out possibility of involvement of the Maoists in Bhangar massacre.


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