Demand to implement AFSPA in border districts of West Bengal, MP said - Hindus are being targeted

West Bengal is under grip of violence as there are protests going against Waqf Act. BJP MP, on the other hand, has written to the Union Home Minister Amit Shah seeking imposition of AFSPA law in border districts across Bengal. BJP MP Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato has made this demand. In the letter, he has written that border districts across Bengal be declared as disturbed areas under AFSPA law as Hindus are being targeted again and again there.

Jyotirmay Singh Mahato, MP from Purulia Lok Sabha seat of West Bengal, wrote in a letter to the Home Minister that 'the situation in many districts of Bengal, especially in Murshidabad, is very worrying. Law and order have collapsed and Hindus are being targeted. Due to the politics of appeasement, the TMC government is not taking any action. The MP claimed that 'more than 86 shops and houses of the Hindu community have been looted and vandalized in Murshidabad district alone. Similar incidents have happened in Malda, Nadia and South 24 Parganas. Communal riots are happening repeatedly here. Opposition leaders are not being allowed to go to the violence-affected areas. The Calcutta High Court has intervened and after that central forces have been deployed in the violence-affected areas. From this, the law and order situation in the state can be easily gauged.'

The MP wrote that 'Bengali Hindus are facing the same fear and violence as Kashmiri Pandits faced in 1990. If we do not take steps now, history can be repeated again, but this time it will not happen in the valley but in Bengal.' The MP demanded the implementation of AFSPA Act 1958 in the border districts of the state, especially Murshidabad, Malda, Nadia and South 24 Parganas.

Under the AFSPA law, armed forces are deployed in disturbed areas. Under this law, the armed forces get the right to kill any person violating the law, make arrests and search any premises without a warrant. And it also ensures protection from prosecution and legal cases without the approval of the central government.