IBNLive: New Delhi: Wednesday, February 13, 2013.
Political
violence has been rising in West Bengal under the government of Chief Minister
Mamta Banerjee. There have been 642 cases of violent clashes related to
students politics in the first five months of Mamata Banerjee's tenure. While
27 people have lost their lives at least 926 political workers and 128 students
have been injured in the clashes.
Statistics
reveal that there are 100 clashes every month in West Bengal. The State Crime
Records Bureau (SCRB) has made the disclosure in reply to a RTI query by Singur
resident Shyamal Mitra. Mitra had sought details of violent clashes which took
place between May 13, 2011 and October 31, 2011 through RTI in the state.
The RTI
statistics has revealed that 5 Trinmool supporters and 10 CPM activists have
died in the clashes. In the violence clashes 2 Congress activists and 10 others
have also lost their life. In response to the RTI SCRB informed Mitra that 586
cases of political violence and 56 clashes between student groups took place in
different places of the state.
According to
the RTI report 789 political activists, which does not include students, were
injured. The injured included 446 Trinmool supporters, 274 from the CPM, 37
Congress activists and 41 from other parties like the RSP, Forward Block,
Samajwadi Party and BJP. During the same period 128 students were injured in 56
cases of clashes.
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