Left trying to create strife, says Trinamool Congress
7 Jan 2013 6:44 AM IST
The Trinamool Congress on Sunday rubbished claims of the CPI-M that one of its legislators allegedly led an attack on a Left Front leader and said the CPI-M was trying to create disturbances in the state.
The opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday demanded the arrest of Trinamool Congress legislator Arabul Islam who, it alleged, had led an attack on CPI-M leader and former minister Abdur Rezzak Molla.
Molla was admitted to a hospital here with injuries after he was allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress members led by legislator Arabul Islam at South 24 Parganas’ Bhangar Sunday morning.
The CPI-M immediately issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the state government to arrest Islam.
Terming the incident as a mere ‘scuffle’, Trinamool Congress leader and urban development minister Firhad Hakim said the brawl was provoked by the CPI-M leader and he was now ‘resting’ in hospital after creating a ‘drama’.
‘Police advised Molla not to go to Bhangar, where the Trinamool Congress was holding a public rally. He forcibly tried to enter the area and abused our party leadership. That led to the scuffle,’ Hakim told a media conference.
Rejecting the CPI-M’s demand for Islam’s arrest, Hakim said: ‘If someone is arrested for a scuffle, then all the people present, including Rezzak Molla, should have been arrested.’
Hakim added that ‘there has been a continuous process by the CPI-M to create disturbances at different places. Today’s incident was part of that’. Earlier, CPI-M leader Surya Kanta Mishra accused Islam of leading the attack on Molla at Bhangar.
The opposition Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Sunday demanded the arrest of Trinamool Congress legislator Arabul Islam who, it alleged, had led an attack on CPI-M leader and former minister Abdur Rezzak Molla.
Molla was admitted to a hospital here with injuries after he was allegedly attacked by Trinamool Congress members led by legislator Arabul Islam at South 24 Parganas’ Bhangar Sunday morning.
The CPI-M immediately issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the state government to arrest Islam.
Terming the incident as a mere ‘scuffle’, Trinamool Congress leader and urban development minister Firhad Hakim said the brawl was provoked by the CPI-M leader and he was now ‘resting’ in hospital after creating a ‘drama’.
‘Police advised Molla not to go to Bhangar, where the Trinamool Congress was holding a public rally. He forcibly tried to enter the area and abused our party leadership. That led to the scuffle,’ Hakim told a media conference.
Rejecting the CPI-M’s demand for Islam’s arrest, Hakim said: ‘If someone is arrested for a scuffle, then all the people present, including Rezzak Molla, should have been arrested.’
Hakim added that ‘there has been a continuous process by the CPI-M to create disturbances at different places. Today’s incident was part of that’. Earlier, CPI-M leader Surya Kanta Mishra accused Islam of leading the attack on Molla at Bhangar.
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