BJP report on Birbhum killings will interfere with CBI probe, says Mamata Banerjee

On Wednesday, the five-member fact-finding committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), formed after the Birbhum violence in West Bengal, submitted its report to party chief JP Nadda.

Reacting to the report Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the BJP fact-finding panel’s report which is submitted to the party president J P Nadda, will weaken and interfere with the CBI probe into the incident. Banerjee told reporters that she condemns this kind of attitude from the saffron party.

She said that there should not be interference from any political party into the investigation.

Banerjee that the report mentions the name of TMC Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal, which shows the vindictive and biased attitude of the BJP.

She said that “how they can mention my district president’s name? It means they want to arrest him. That is a personal vendetta.”

She alleged that BJP wants to arrest everyone who opposes them.

On Friday, 25 March, the Calcutta High Court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to take over the case regarding the violence in Birbhum district of West Bengal, in which eight people were burned to death following the murder of TMC panchayat leader Bhadu Sheikh at a crossroad near the village of Bogtui.