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Central team leaves Kolkata without visiting affected areas
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Team satisfied with briefings of officials and felt no need to go to districts: Home Secretary
Trinamool submits memorandum, requests the team to visit trouble-affected areas
KOLKATA: The three-member Central team that had come here to discuss the law and order situation in West Bengalleft the city on Wednesday after talks spreading over two days with State and district officials and without visiting any of the “affected areas” as sought for by the the Opposition party, the Trinamool.
While the ruling Left Entrance had made clear its displeasure over the move to send the Central team,
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The Central team’s decision against visiting any of the violence-affected areas that, according to the Trinamool , are evidence of the total breakdown in the administrative machinery, has comeas a major disappointment for the party and its chief, Mamata Banerjee who described the move to send the team to the State as a “victory for the people”. Rather, the Left Front’s opposition to the Central officials visiting only certain specific areas seems to have been vindicated.
The Central team,
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The districts are ones where there have been incidents of inter-party clashes as well as those affected by Maoist activities, tribal turmoil and political unrest stemming from the demand for a separate Gorkhaland.
On the Central team’s decision not to visit the districts,
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“The team made no comment on the law and order situation. It discussed matters with us and came up with specific suggestions on situation in the Maoist-affected areas but not on that in areas where there has been political violence,” he added.
“They (the team members) have not given any recommendations besides making a mention of the need for better technology for information gathering in Maoist-affected areas,
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The Central officials will be submitting a report to the Union Home Ministry on its return to New Delhi.
Earlier, a delegation of Trinamool that declined an invitation to meet the central officials at Writers’ Buildings did so at an alternative venue in the morning.
Submitting a memorandum containing a list of incidents of violence allegedly perpetrated against its workers, the leaders reiterated their request that the team visit some of the trouble-affected areas and speak to the families of the victims.
A Left Entrance delegation had met the Central team at Writers’ Buildings on Tuesday.
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