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Raktima Bose
KOLKATA: Less than a week after the West Bengal Assembly election results were declared, the killing of six persons in incidents of post-poll violence and the regularity with which illegal firearms are being recovered from certain parts of the State have raised serious questions about the law and order.
Even as all major parties have reiterated the need for maintaining peace irrespective of the outcome, reports of political activists being shot at or beaten up and their houses and party offices ransacked or torched are pouring in almost every hour.
Blame game
The political parties, meanwhile, are blaming each other for the violence.
A Left Front delegation met Governor M.K. Narayanan on Monday and alleged that planned attacks were being mounted on its activists by Trinamool Congress supporters even as Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee was harping on her Badla Noi, Badal Chai (no revenge, we want change) slogan.
But the Trinamool Congress rubbished the charges and alleged that its activists were being attacked by Left Front supporters to avenge their defeat.
However, it is the recovery of more than 400 illegal firearms as well as ammunition and explosives over the past few days that has set the alarm bells ringing in the State administration.
Arms fights and killing are no new skills for both CPM & TMC.
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