Trinamool wants discussion on Dhaka attack
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress yesterday raised the issue of the July 1 terror attack in Dhaka at an all-party meeting convened here ahead of the monsoon session of parliament beginning today.
Sudip Bandopadhyay, leader of the party in Lok Sabha, and Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, chief whip of Trinamool Congress in Rajya Sabha, told the meeting that the Dhaka incident should be discussed by parliament along with the terror attack in Nice, France. Because terrorism is a pressing issue not only in South Asia but the world at large.
Bandopadhyay and Roy flagged the Dhaka terror attack issue in the context of its demand for a discussion in parliament on internal security.
The raising of the Dhaka terror attack by the Trinamool Congress leaders came a day after Mamata told representatives of Kolkata-based media here that the federal Indian government should share with her administration information about terror suspects who allegedly sneaked into West Bengal after the July 1 incident.
Mamata had also charged that the federal government was not sharing information on terror suspects with West Bengal.
Her remarks at the media interaction set the tone and tenor of what is going to be Trinamool Congress' lawmakers' stand in parliament proceedings starting today.
Mamata had said that the federal government should also apprise the West Bengal authorities about other terrorist activities that have trans-national ramifications.
In her condemnation of the Dhaka terror attack, Mamata had earlier tweeted that “terrorism has no boundaries and has no religion” and called for a united fight against terror. She had also decried BJP West Bengal unit's call for stopping movement of Dhaka-Kolkata Moitree Express train in the wake of the July 1 incident, saying it has nothing to do with the train service.
Trinamool sources said at yesterday's all-party meeting convened by the federal government to discuss issues to be raised and debated in the monsoon session of parliament, the party broached the subject of Dhaka terror attack and its implications not only for West Bengal in particular but India in general.
At the meeting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged all the political parties to keep national interests above any other considerations. He said that ''we represent both the people and parties and there is a need to keep national interests above anything else”.
Briefing the media after the meeting of leaders of parties in both the Houses of parliament, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Ananth Kumar said the government assured the leaders of an open-minded approach and would facilitate discussion on issues raised by various parties during yesterday's meeting.
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