Amid a full-blown political battle between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP over the violence in West Bengal’s Birbhum districtCongress chief in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, urging him to invoke Article 355 of the Constitution to make sure that the state authorities capabilities in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.
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“The law-and-order scenario in West Bengal has utterly damaged down. It may be very unhappy to notice that over the past month itself there have been 26 political murders in West Bengal. Poll violence and submit ballot violence has claimed many lives. The complete state is within the grip of worry and violence,” Chowdhury mentioned in his letter to the President.
Chowdhury had raised the difficulty in Parliament Monday.
Pointing out that he raised the difficulty in Parliament to attract the eye of the nation concerning breakdown of the constitutional equipment in Bengal, Chowdhury in his letter mentioned, “In view of the deteriorating regulation and order scenario in West Bengal, I request you to invoke Article 355 of the Constitution to make sure that the Government of West Bengal is carried on in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution.”
Article 355 of the Constitution offers with an emergency provision by which the Center can intervene and defend a state towards exterior aggression or inner disturbance.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
