Kolkata: A day after a ruling Trinamool Congress leader stirred up controversy by exhorting his party workers to hurl bombs at police and damage houses of independent candidates in the West Bengal panchayat polls, intellectuals and opposition politicians yesterday lashed out at the regime for “terrorising” and “inciting violence.”
“They (Trinamool) are doing it to terrorise and confuse the people in the rural areas. I have been to the rural areas and the situation there is markedly different from that in the metro. As a creative person, I am afraid of what might happen in the future,” noted theatre actor Kaushik Sen said.
He said Trinamool was carrying forward the Communist Party of India-Marxist’s legacy of inciting violence among people.
Renowned painter Sameer Aich deplored the language ruling party members were in the habit of using.
Congress leader Om Prakash Mishra said Mandal’s comments undermined the democratic process. “It is an ugly attempt to subvert the democratic processes and the constitutional order,” he said.
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