Slamming the EC for removing “good police officers” at the instance of the CPI(M), Congress and BJP, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that it would not affect the electoral prospects of the Trinamul Congress. “There will not be any benefit by removing OCs and ICs. Do they bring vote It is the people who give the vote,” she said, while addressing election rallies in Chapra and Habibpur in Nadia district.
Remaining defiant, Ms Banerjee wondered why the EC did not take similar measures in Assam, Kerala and TN where Assembly elections are being conducted at around the same time as in Bengal. She blamed the Opposition parties’ constant complaints to the EC for the removal of police officers. “Only a month ago, they had removed the OCs of Bolpur and Mayureswar and they were removed again last nigh,” she said.
She said the transfer of the police officers by the EC “at the drop of a hat” may demoralise the force. She reminded the EC and the Opposition that when the TMC came to power, she did not remove the state chief secretary, home secretary and DG. She said, “Those who were removed and those who were appointed in their place are all members of our family.”
Even if you replace A with B and B with C then it will turn out to be an exercise in futility because all police officers are our men,” she added.
Taunting the Opposition, Ms Banerjee said the CPI(M), BJP and Congress have created what she described as the “syndicate of the complaints”. She claimed that from the morning till the night the opposition merely indulged in Mamata-bashing. “They will keep on complaining till one day their throats will turn dry,” she added.
Ms Banerjee said after 2019 Lok Sabha election Trinamul Congress will influence the politics in Delhi.
