Six individuals, including a forest guard, were slain in the early morning fighting after forest guards from Assam stopped a truck...
Digital Desk: Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of the Trinamool Congress, expressed his sorrow over the violence that occurred at a disputed Assam-Meghalaya border location on Tuesday, which resulted in the deaths of six people. Banerjee said the incident demonstrated the "ineptitude" of the Meghalaya government.
Six individuals, including a forest guard, were slain in the early morning fighting after forest guards from Assam stopped a truck that was carrying illegally cut timber.
Expressing shock over the incident, Banerjee tweeted, “I am shocked and deeply saddened by the extremely unfortunate firing incident at Mukroh, Meghalaya which took away lives of five innocent civilians and a forest guard from Assam.” “For how long will CM @SangmaConrad allow @himantabiswa to take Meghalaya for granted? For how long should Meghalayans live in fear and insecurity? For how long will this injustice go on,” Banerjee, the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, said.
Banerjee tweeted his outrage over the incident.
In an apparent jab at the Conrad Sangma administration in Meghalaya, he said on the microblogging site, "Today's episode demonstrates the ineptitude of the MDA (Meghalaya Democratic Alliance) Govt, failing its own people."
Visiting the survivors of the Mukroh fire incident at the Jowai Civil Hospital and the family members of the deceased, senior TMC leader and former chief minister Mukul Sangma assured them of his unwavering support, the party stated in another tweet.
Conrad Sangma, the chief minister of Meghalaya and a member of the BJP, complained that Assam police and forest guards "entered Meghalaya and resorted to unprovoked firing" in a tweet that included the names of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, and Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
However, Assam Police officials said that the vehicle was halted in the state's West Karbi Anglong district by a team from the forest department and that after a Meghalayan mob attacked the state's forest guards and cops, Assam fired to subdue the situation.
According to Conrad Sangma, five of the six people slain in the conflict were inhabitants of Meghalaya, while one was an Assam Forest guard.
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