Accusing a government official of maligning a party legislator, Trinamool Congress leadership said on Monday that the party was mulling legal action against the official who had accused the legislator of threatening him for removing posters of party chairperson Mamata Banerjee.
Dinobandhu Gayen, the Block Development Officer of Habra II in North 24 Parganas district, had filed a police complaint alleging that the Trinamool Congress legislator Dhiman Roy had threatened him over telephone after a Model Code of Conduct enforcement team had removed posters with Ms. Banerjee's pictures from public places.
Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy rubbished Mr. Gayen’s allegations instead accusing the officer of maligning the party legislator.
“It is clear that he is working with an ulterior motive and at the behest of some political party he has lodged the complaint to malign the Trinamool and its legislator Dhiman Roy. We are exploring legal actions against him,” Mr. Roy said adding that nobody has the right to malign anyone in public eye. Mr. Gayen, in his complaint has also alleged that about 20 miscreants barged into his room and insulted him, threatening that if the posters were not put up again he and his team would be “beheaded and their legs chopped off”.
Following the complaint, ten Trinamool Congress workers were arrested on Sunday. Five persons were arrested on Monday said an official of Election Commission. Meanwhile, State Food Minister Jyotipriya Mallick said “There is no doubt he is acting at the behest of rival political parties. I wonder how he came to know about the names of the 25 Trinamool workers whom he has mentioned in the complaint.”
