Bengal Government restricts vehicle movement along inter-state border with Jharkhand, lifts restrictions after 12 hours

He past added, “Mamata Banerjee, nowadays, has gotten successful the wont of taking 1 measurement guardant and going 4 steps backward. It started from the RG Kar incident, each measurement taken by her arsenic an Administrator and arsenic TMC Supremo person backfired. It is lone the beginning, from present connected Mamata Banerjee has to support retracting and retreating.”

CPI(M) person Sujan Chakraborty said, “Chief Minister Banerjee abruptly said that she volition chopped disconnected each relations with the DVC (Damodar Valley Corporation). After that, she realised it was intolerable to proviso capable energy to the authorities without the DVC. She past stopped conveyance question on the Bengal-Jharkhand border. Then the medication realised specified a measurement would wounded West Bengal’s interests. Naturally, she retracted again.”

While visiting flood-affected areas successful the state, CM Banerjee connected Thursday termed the caller flood successful Bengal arsenic a ‘man-made’ one. She said, “It is simply a planned flood. We repeatedly told the DVC not to merchandise h2o but they are continuously releasing water. Even connected Thursday morning, they released water, and caller areas got flooded… we person to chopped disconnected each connection with the DVC. We volition commencement a large question against this.”

After the Bengal Government lifted the restrictions connected goods vehicles, Sajal Ghosh, General Secretary, Federation of West Bengal Truck Operators Association, said, “Closing the borderline without announcement is illegal. The Union Government wrote a missive to the authorities authorities astatine 4 pm. We besides warned the authorities authorities that if it did not assistance the ban, we would spell connected an indefinite strike. After that, the authorities authorities lifted the restrictions.”

Reacting to the controversy, a authorities location section authoritative said, “We stopped proscription due to the fact that of the flood situation. The concern improved, truthful we person allowed vehicles to again ply done the Bengal-Jharkhand border.”