SILCHAR, April 29: Tension over Tuesday’s incident of mob attack on district Congress general secretary scaled a new height today as the local residents of Malini beel, who were accused of the mob violence, openly declared that they would not surrender to the land grabbers what may come.
On the other hand, a delegation of Congress workers and some residents of Tarapur led by district Congress president today asked the district administration to evacuate the illegal dwellers of Malini beel.
Meanwhile, police have arrested five miscreants yesterday morning but after that there has been no arrest. A police source said they had no instruction from the administration for making any raids to evacuate anybody from Malini beel.
Meanwhile, a Congress source said that some BJP workers were seen in Malini beel area and they were allegedly instigating the local residents.
It is to be noted that a mob of at least 300 people from Malini beel, a slum area, attacked the Tarapur residence of district Congress general secretary as well as the chairman of Silchar Development Authority Partha Ranjan Chakraborty and ransacked his entire house, beating him and his brother Sujay.
Both Partha Ranjan and Sujay had been admitted in the ICU of Silchar Medical College and Hospital with multiple injuries.
The mob attacked the house reportedly to release a youth allegedly held by Partha Ranjan on the pretext that he was a thief. But today the local residents of Malini beel area told the mediapersons that Partha Ranjan and his goons had been regularly harassing them and pressuring them to evacuate the land with a motive to sell it to some private builders.
Rasmani Das, mother of Aditya Das who was held by Partha Ranjan, accused that she was even beaten by the Congress leader.
They said, all the male members of the locality have been forced to flee as the followers of the Congress leaders were allegedly threatening them.
Meanwhile a group of local people of Tarapur area who yesterday blocked the road demanding immediate arrest of the culprits who attacked the house of one of their neighbours today charged district Congress president Karnendu Bhattacharjee with the allegation that the ruling party has completely failed to provide protection to its own general secretary. They even apprehend that slum dwellers might any time attack the other residents of Tarapur.
Bhattacharjee later took the local residents to the Deputy Commissioner as well as to the police officials and asked them to immediately evacuate the illegal dwellers of Malini beel.
District administration has reportedly not taken any decision in this regard. But a source informed that dwellers of Malini beel could not be branded as illegal.
The source said the epicenter of the entire episode was selling of vast land to builders and some Congress workers were pressurizing the slum dwellers, most of them were either rickshaw pullers or small time vendors, to evacuate the land.
Meanwhile a source said that seven bighas of khas land were allegedly sold to a travelling company by Partha Ranjan and at least 40 families were forcefully evacuated using bull-dozers six months back. But at least four families refused to leave the place.
A youth Congress leader as well as SC Board office bearers was given a hefty amount of money to persuade those four families. Tension started to brew since then.
However there had been no incident of fresh violence today. But interestingly police did not enter in to Malini beel area, only a picket of CRPF had been posted near the area.
A good number of rickshaw pullers and vegetable vendors were from this area and they could not be seen today in the town, indirectly affecting the normal life of the town. THE SENTINEL
On the other hand, a delegation of Congress workers and some residents of Tarapur led by district Congress president today asked the district administration to evacuate the illegal dwellers of Malini beel.
Meanwhile, police have arrested five miscreants yesterday morning but after that there has been no arrest. A police source said they had no instruction from the administration for making any raids to evacuate anybody from Malini beel.
Meanwhile, a Congress source said that some BJP workers were seen in Malini beel area and they were allegedly instigating the local residents.
It is to be noted that a mob of at least 300 people from Malini beel, a slum area, attacked the Tarapur residence of district Congress general secretary as well as the chairman of Silchar Development Authority Partha Ranjan Chakraborty and ransacked his entire house, beating him and his brother Sujay.
Both Partha Ranjan and Sujay had been admitted in the ICU of Silchar Medical College and Hospital with multiple injuries.
The mob attacked the house reportedly to release a youth allegedly held by Partha Ranjan on the pretext that he was a thief. But today the local residents of Malini beel area told the mediapersons that Partha Ranjan and his goons had been regularly harassing them and pressuring them to evacuate the land with a motive to sell it to some private builders.
Rasmani Das, mother of Aditya Das who was held by Partha Ranjan, accused that she was even beaten by the Congress leader.
They said, all the male members of the locality have been forced to flee as the followers of the Congress leaders were allegedly threatening them.
Meanwhile a group of local people of Tarapur area who yesterday blocked the road demanding immediate arrest of the culprits who attacked the house of one of their neighbours today charged district Congress president Karnendu Bhattacharjee with the allegation that the ruling party has completely failed to provide protection to its own general secretary. They even apprehend that slum dwellers might any time attack the other residents of Tarapur.
Bhattacharjee later took the local residents to the Deputy Commissioner as well as to the police officials and asked them to immediately evacuate the illegal dwellers of Malini beel.
District administration has reportedly not taken any decision in this regard. But a source informed that dwellers of Malini beel could not be branded as illegal.
The source said the epicenter of the entire episode was selling of vast land to builders and some Congress workers were pressurizing the slum dwellers, most of them were either rickshaw pullers or small time vendors, to evacuate the land.
Meanwhile a source said that seven bighas of khas land were allegedly sold to a travelling company by Partha Ranjan and at least 40 families were forcefully evacuated using bull-dozers six months back. But at least four families refused to leave the place.
A youth Congress leader as well as SC Board office bearers was given a hefty amount of money to persuade those four families. Tension started to brew since then.
However there had been no incident of fresh violence today. But interestingly police did not enter in to Malini beel area, only a picket of CRPF had been posted near the area.
A good number of rickshaw pullers and vegetable vendors were from this area and they could not be seen today in the town, indirectly affecting the normal life of the town. THE SENTINEL
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