KOLKATA: A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, gave clear instructions to both West Bengal Police and Kolkata Police to ensure absolute security for public political programmes of elected representatives from the opposition parties.
The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari approached the Calcutta High Court in October last year seeking the court’s intervention for a permanent solution to ensure that the public political programmes of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s legislators and parliamentarians, which include a couple of Union ministers of state, do not face unwarranted hostility and resistance from the ruling Trinamool Congress activists.
After the hearing in the matter, the division bench of Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen directed the Kolkata Police and West Bengal that they should ensure absolute security for public political programmes of elected public representatives from the opposition parties.