West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee to visit Birbhum on Thursday

On Wednesday while addressing a government program Bengal Chief Minister announced that she will visit Birbhum district on Thursday.

This announcement comes after eight people were burnt to death in West Bengal’s Birbhum district on Tuesday.

She further accused the opposition parties, including the BJP, Congress and CPI(M), of using the incident to malign the state government.

Mamata Banerjee condemned the incident and said that she had already dismissed the sub-divisional police officer.

“The Birbhum, Rampurhat incident is unfortunate. I have immediately dismissed the sub-divisional police officer. I will go to Rampurhat tomorrow,” said Mamata Banerjee.

She compared the incident with the Hathras case in Uttar Pradesh in 2020 and said, “Few parties are going today (to Birbhum). It’s not like UP where no one was allowed to enter Hathras after the rape. We don’t do these things.”

This comes after Bengal Governor wrote a letter to CM Mamata Banerjee in which he accused her of taking an accusatory stance in the incident.