Army proves Mamata wrong
posted on Dec 2, 2016 @ 5:07PM
The Indian Army proved the Mamata Banerjee led Trinamool government wrong, in the raging controversy over its exercise in West Bengal. A letter written by the Kolkata Police proves the Army's claim that the West Bengal government had been intimated about its routine exercise in the state. These contradict Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's charge that the Army was deployed without informing the state government. The routine Army exercises in West Bengal were given a political flavour as Mamata Banerjee herself stepped in to protest at the Secretariat next to the toll plaza in Kolkata where the Army exercises were carried out. Kolkata's Additional Commissioner of Police Supratim Sarkar wrote to Colonel Surinder Mahani, Station Cell, Administrative Commandment, Head Quarters Bengal Area, Kolkata, a letter dated November 26. It acknowledged the Army's memo dated November 24 "in connection with the intimation of the Impressments Exercise for Civil Hired Transport on and from November 28 to November 30 at Vidyasagar Setu Toll Plaza".