Kolkata:
West Bengal Governor Gopal Gandhi has issued a statement in Kolkata on Tuesday expressing anxiety and regret about post-poll clashes across the state. A series of clashes have occurred over the last few days between CPM, the Trinamool and Congress supporters.
On Tuesday, the Trinamool observed a 12 hour bandh at Khejuri near Nandigram after guns and bombs were recovered from the homes of CPM supporters.
A CPM office was ransacked during a Trinamool bandh called to protest an arms haul from the homes of CPM supporters near Nandigram. The tension in East Midnapore comes days after a Trinamool worker was killed at Khanakul in Hooghly district.
Prompted by a spate of post poll violence, Governor Gopal Krishna Gandhi issued a statement appealing for peace.
"In a mature democracy like ours, neither vengeance and vendetta nor bragging and bravado can be allowed either by the victorious or by the defeated," said Gopal Krishna Gandhi, Governor, West Bengal.
In a mature democracy like ours, the statement says, neither vengeance and vendetta nor bragging and bravado can be allowed either by the victorious or by the defeated.
The CPM blames the Trinamool for the post-poll clashes.
Some of the ugliest clashes have been between rival student unions, apparently over admission to colleges but springing from political rivalry that has turned bitter after the election results in the state.