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| Mamata Banerjee Got Maoist Leader |
| Mamata Banerjee Got Maoist Leader Kishenji Killed, Says Her Minister
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| INDIA
, 11-February-2016
8:15:26 AM |
| Six months after her nephew and Trinamool MP publicly said it, a minister in West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's government has claimed she got Maoist leader Mallojula Koteswara Rao, better known as Kishenji, killed in 2011.
"The TV and newspaper reporters were always talking to Kishenji. He could be seen. But he couldn't be caught," said Rachpal Singh, minister for planning, while speaking at a public rally at Hooghly's Balagarh on Wednesday.
"Mamata Banerjee, when she became chief minister, knew the police alone wouldn't be able to catch him. So she took the issue of gathering intelligence on Kishenji into her own hands and, in three months, had him killed in an encounter."
His statement is an embarrassment for the Trinamool and the Bengal government. They have always claimed Kishenji had died in an encounter with joint forces. But Mr Singh's comment suggests the encounter may have been "fake".
Ms Banerjee's nephew and Trinamool parliamentarian Abhishek Banerjee had said the same thing last July.
Speaking at a rally at Belpahari, which used to be a Maoist hotbed, Mr Banerjee had said, ""One of the biggest success of the Mamata Banerjee government is that we have killed Kishenji. If any takes up arms for violence, he shall be treated this way. One should only lift arms to protect one's own country."
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