While pointing out that violence was affecting politics in West Bengal, Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Wednesday asserted that strong action will be taken in connection to violence in Joynagar in the State’s South 24 Parganas district.
A local Trinamool Congress leader Saifuddin Laskar was shot dead at Joynagar on November 13, and one of accused was lynched to death by locals. The family members of the deceased Trinamool leader, as well as the local party leadership, had blamed a local leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for being involved in the murder. Canning Purba MLA and Trinamool leader Saukat Molla publicly alleged at the local CPI(M) leader were involved in the Mr. Laskar’s murder. Hours after the incident, the house of local CPI(M) supporters were ransacked and set on fire.
