By IANS
Kolkata : Alarmed over Maoist posters being plastered on the gate of the state secretariat, the West Bengal government Friday formed a task force to monitor the activities of the rebels and also suspended four Kolkata Police constables on charges of dereliction of duty.
“A task force has been formed to monitor the activities of the Maoists in West Bengal,” state Home Secretary Prasad Ranjan Roy told reporters.
The posters, which were reportedly pasted late Thursday night, blamed Chief Minster Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, Left Front chairman Biman Bose and Communist Party of India-Marxist politburo member Binoy Konar for the March 14 firing in Nandigram.
Roy said four Kolkata Police constables who were posted outside the gate of state secretariat Writers’ Buildings Thursday night have been suspended for dereliction of duty.
“An official in the rank of deputy commissioner will investigate the case,” he said.
Security personnel found the posters pasted on the gate No.1 of the state secretariat and immediately removed them. Police have taken a photocopy of the posters for further investigation.
Maoists posters were also found on the walls of a popular cafeteria, Coffee House, in central Kolkata.
Fourteen people had died in the March 14 police firing in Nandigram.
Nandigram, about 150 km from here in East Midnapore district, flared up over proposed land acquisition for a special economic zone (SEZ), including a chemical hub – a plan that was scrapped by the state government later in the face of stiff resistance.
Thirty-five people have died altogether in the escalading violence in Nandigram since January this year. A fresh bout of violence broke out in November after ruling CPI-M cadres allegedly recaptured their lost bases in the area by launching a massive onslaught on the rival anti-land acquisition BUPC.