CM expresses fear of violence in N Bengal
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed apprehension of violence a day before the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections in North Bengal.
Leader of the Opposition, Abdul Mannan today contradicted chief minister, Mamata Banerjee’s contention that “dengue-carrier” mosquitoes from Bangladesh are flying into this state and spreading the dreaded disease which the state government is hard-pressed to combat.
In a letter to the chief minister who also holds the health portfolio, Mannan has written that a portion of a plot outside the male ward of Habra State General Hospital is a breeding ground of mosquitoes.
“We were doubly sure that mosquitoes causing outbreak of dengue in Habra have not come from Bangladesh as you have recently identified them but from the breeding grounds of Habra municipality which has no elected body for the past 10 months or so as a result of your government’s undemocratic policy of having municipal bodies without guardians of the people’s representatives,” the leader of the Opposition pointed out in a two-page letter.
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The sub-divisional officer, Barasat as administrator of the municipality have not been able to do justice to his new assignment may be because of the shortage of time and distance from his place of work, the letter stated.
A member of the state Cabinet from Habra has miserably failed to look after the interest of the electors though he is supposed to have played a crucial role, the leader of the Opposition pointed out. The people of Habra are in fear of an attack of dengue any time, he said.
The leader of the Opposition continued to pour ridicule on the Trinamul Congress-run state government. During the visit to the hospital as partof a joint delegation of Congress and Left Front MLAs, Mannan said while some of the patients in the male ward have mosquito nets, such nets are few in the female ward.
On being asked, the hospital superintendent told the delegation that a few notes are available “but somehow not have been fixed.”
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