A delegation of opposition CPI (M) led by party secretary Jitendra Chaudhury on Tuesday afternoon met Chief Minister Dr Manik Saha and urged him to take concrete steps to protect democratic rights of opposition and legal action against all law-breakers irrespective of any party.CPI(M) team also urged the Chief Minister to instruct police administration to maintain their impartial role.

While, CPI(M) during their deputation with the Chief Minister submitted a memorandum highlighting a series of political violence and other incidents, in which opposition parties were targeted by ruling party workers and attacked on them.

CPI(M) in their memorandum said that “It is most unfortunate and disturbing that, at the moment while being in charge of Home Affairs, Dr Manik Saha are admiring the state’s law and order situation to be quite normal and satisfactory, some miscreants , mostly patronized by BJP and Tipra-Motha, have been desperately ridiculing his claim by unleashing one after another dastardly attacks on the opposition campaign programme, as if the so called ‘Sushashan’ proclaimed by the Chief Minister is really the ‘Sushashan’ on the law-breakers taking the advantage of inaction of section of the police officers.”

Mentioning one after one political violence, the CPI(M) team said that sum up of all the incidents recently help in different parts of the state, conclusively establishes that law and order of the state at this moment is not in the hands of the police, rather it lies at the whims of some miscreants patronized by ruling BJP and Tipra-Motha. They also alleged that ‘this apathetic attitude of the police giving free hand to suppress opposition and disrupt their activities also percolated to the general law and order which is also deteriorating to an alarming extent.’

CPI (M) state committee hoped that the Chief Minister would let the police to be non-partisan, to act freely to take legal action against the law-breakers irrespective of their political colour and religious identity.