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“We need to be more vigilant”

Indrani Dutta

KOLKATA: There was need to be more cautious and vigilant to prevent incidents like abduction of policemen by Maoists , West Bengal Home Secretary Ardhendu Sen said.

Answering reporters’ queries at the Secretariat, he made this comment in the context of Friday’s abduction of a policeman near Lalgarh. “We need to be more cautious and vigilant,” he said. He has since been released by his captors.

When Mr. Sen’s attention was drawn to the anguish recently expressed by a section of CPI(M) leaders that their men were being killed even as the joint forces were carrying out their operations in Lalgarh and its vicinity, Mr. Sen said they could say this.

“After all quite a few of their men (CPI-M) have been killed by Maoists over the last seven days.”

On the Mangalkot incident, in which senior Congress leaders came under attack, Mr. Sen said that while the Human Rights Commission has visited the area they have not called for any report from the State government till now. “They have gone around the area and we have extended whatever assistance they had asked for”, he said.

Regarding the Maoist attacks, it may be mentioned that the Left Front has demanded that the West Bengal government takes administrative steps to restore peace at Lalgarh and protect Left workers from the terror let loose on them in Lalgarh and in other parts of the State.

“We have no party men in Lalgarh at present … It is for the administration to act. Fascist terror has been unleashed in Lalgarh and other parts of the State by the Maoists, the Trinamool Congress and, in some places, the Congress, all of whom have been engaged in the politics of vendetta ever since the results of the recent Lok Sabha elections were announced,” Left Front Committee chairman Biman Bose said.

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