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| 'Is This Emergency?' Mamata Banerje |
| 'Is This Emergency?' Mamata Banerjee Now Objects To Army At Toll Booths
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| INDIA
, 1-December-2016
11:39:2 AM |
| West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee opened another front in her battle with the centre today, this time objecting to the presence of Army soldiers at two toll booths on a national highway that runs through her state, saying her permission should have been sought.
"I want to know if, besides the financial emergency, the attack on democracy and the federal structure, is there an emergency?" Ms Banerjee asked. "Why were soldiers out at Dankuni and Palsit, the two poll booths on National Highway 2? Even for mock drills, the army has to take the state's permission," she said, adding "they did not."
The Chief Minister has now refused to leave office till the army moves. "Very unfortunate. Army stationed in front of Nabanno, the Bengal State Secretariat in a high security zone, inspite of Police objection... I am waiting here at the Secretariat and watching, to guard our democracy," she tweeted.
The Chief Minister said she has asked Chief Secretary Basudeb Banerjee, the state's top bureaucrat, to complain to the centre.
Derek O'Brien, a lawmaker from Ms Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, tweeted a video that showed armymen in fatigues at a toll plaza and asked whether "Besides Financial Emergency" the centre had "also imposed General Emergency," the former a reference to the Modi government's notes ban against which Mamata Banerjee is leading a campaign.
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