Angry over car delay, Mamata says guards must be ‘whipped’
Chief
minister Mamata Banerjee's public outburst against her security officer
"apnakay chabkano uchit" (you should be whipped) on Wednesday night at
the Kolkata Book Fair for being made to wait for her car, has made APDR
move the West Bengal Human Rights Commission.
KOLKATA: Chief minister MamataBanerjee's public outburst against her security officer "apnakaychabkanouchit" (you should be whipped) on Wednesday night at the Kolkata Book Fair for being made to wait for her car, has made the Association for Protection of Democratic Rights
(APDR) move the West Bengal Human Rights Commission. Ironically, the
officer, Kusum Kumar Dwivedi, was awarded a seva medal by Mamata only a
month back, in December last year.
APDR's branch secretary Ranjit Sur wrote to West Bengal Human Rights Commission chairperson Justice (retired) Asok Kumar Ganguly on Thursday. "Police personnel are government employees. No one has the right to misbehave with them in that manner and thus destroy their dignity and social prestige. Moreover, they are not in a position their service condition may not allow them to lodge complaint against the chief minister. So, we as a human rights defender organization appeal to you to intervene and do the needful to protect the dignity of the policemen on VIP duty."
APDR also pointed out the case of suicide by an officer of Park Street police station few months ago after his superiors allegedly misbehaved acted inhumanly with him.
"We have urged the commission to protect the rights of policemen humiliated by the chief minister and also other police personnel in general. If such incident is not checked now, this will percolate further to all layers of administration. And the worst sufferers will be those in the lower strata of the administration," said Sur.
Union minister But it was Deepa Das Munshi was also vocal. who pointed the disconnect.
"What wrong did the officer do? Wasn't he the one whom the chief minister had awarded only a month back? All these, for a few minutes for which she was made to wait.
Is this the culture of Bengal? Or is this the frustration over something else?" she quipped.
Opposition leader Surjya Kanta Mishra, now in Tripura, told reporters: "The chief minister should keep her cool. She isn't in the opposition anymore.", but the head of the state government. She should behave like one. If this continues, I wonder how they are going to continue for their complete five years. This might trigger a constitutional crisis." BJP leader Tathagata Roy termed this as a dangerous precedent..
