TMC files FIRs against Assam CM Sonowal
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress delegation after returning to Kolkata on Friday from Silchar lodged two FIRs against Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal.
Two TMC MPs — Mamata Bala Thakur and Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar lodged an FIR at Airport police station while MLA Mahua Moitra has filed an FIR with the Alipore police station alleging harassment and illegal detention by police at Silchar airport.
The six Trinamool Congress MPs along with an MLA and state Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister Firhad Hakim returned from Silchar on Friday morning.
Hakim said: "We will fight till the end in protest of exclusion of the names of people from the National Register for Citizens (NRC). What will happen if their name doesn't appear in the final list? Do they will be thrown out of the country as it happened with the Rohingyas?"
He added that the Centre has no concrete plan and they take up such "foolish steps" without considering its outcome. "We will go to Assam again following instructions from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. I am the party's observer for Assam and I will go there again within the next 10 days to talk to our party workers."
Narrating their experience in Silchar, Dastidar added: "It was like there is 'Super Emergency' in the country."
Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress will observe Black Day on August 4 and 5 to protest against the "undemocratic confinement" of the party workers by the Assam government on Thursday, Partha Chatterjee, the Trinamool secretary general said on Friday.
Chatterjee said on both the days, the party workers and leaders will wear black badges throughout the state. In every block, party workers will hold meetings to condemn the highhandedness of the BJP government in Assam.
"The people's representatives were stopped in the most undemocratic manner. They had gone to meet the people whose names have been dropped from the NRC. Everywhere the BJP is trying to coerce people," he alleged.
Of the eight-member delegation which had gone to Assam on Thursday, six members have come to Kolkata. Two members of the team — Arpita Ghosh and Mamata Bala Thakur — have left for Delhi.
Calling the BJP as a "party that indulges in riots", Firhad Hakim said: "The BJP is trying to flex muscles everywhere and the arrogance of the party leaders has crossed every limit." The Trinamool Congress delegation was put up in a dharamsala and was "forced" to board a Kolkata-bound flight on Friday morning.
