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Academicians Lead Charge Against Trinamool For Post-Poll Violence, Write To President And Supreme Court For Probes
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Many areas of Bengal witnessed violence after the Assembly poll results were declared (File)
New Delhi:
The Centre for Social Development and over 100 academicians have written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his immediate intervention for the security of Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) communities following the post-poll violence in West Bengal.
The memorandum said after the results of the Bengal Assembly polls were declared, the state-sponsored activists of Trinamool Congress in collaboration with the state police have targeted the SC/ST community and spread the violence of killing, looting, raping, and occupying their land. More than 11,000 people, most of them belonging to SC and ST community have been rendered homeless and over 40,000 affected in the 1,627 incidents of brutal attacks, it said.