BJP's fact-finding team on the violent incident that took place in Birbhum district in West Bengal on March 21 has recommended Central intervention for the restoration of law and order and alleged that there was "mafia rule" in the State.
The BJP had constituted the five-member team in the aftermath of the violence in which eight people were burnt alive in Bogtui village near Rampurhat, while one more succumbed to injuries a week later, after a mob set a group of houses ablaze following the killing of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Bhadu Sheikh on March 21. The dead included six women and a child.
The five members on the panel — Rajya Sabha MP and former Uttar Pradesh director general of police (DGP) Brajlal, Lok Sabha MP and former Mumbai police commissioner Satyapal Singh, Rajya Sabha MP and former IPS officer KC Ramamurthy, national spokesperson of the party and former IPS Bharati Ghosh and West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar — met BJP president J.P. Nadda and presented the report on Wednesday.
