Kolkata, May 5 (ANI): Congress Party activists burnt the effigy of West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee here on Thursday to protest allegations by the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Government that the former government in West Bengal was involved in the 1995 Purulia arms drop case.
Congress Party's youth wing leader Pradip Prasad blamed the CPI-M leaders for unnecessarily raising the issue, when the assembly polls were underway in the state.
"It has been 16 years since the Purulia arms drop case happened, in 1995. Now the Communist Party of India -Marxist is blaming the Congress for it and has demanded the government to step down. We condemn this. Why is the CPI-M raising the issue after 16 years? he asked.
Dismissing CPI-M's allegations as a politically motivated tirade, Prasad asserted that the Left Front fears defeat in the polls, which is why they are digging up inconsequential issues.
"The CPI-M had never raised this issue. Now when the elections are near, they have expressed their concern. They know that they will be defeated in the poll and that is why they have raised this issue now. That is why we are protesting today," said Prasad.
The CPI-M has demanded a judicial probe into the Purulia arms drop case of 1995.
The Purulia arms drop case was an infamous incident in which unauthorised arms were dropped from an Antonov An-26 aircraft in West Bengal"s Purulia District on December 17, 1995.
A Latvian aircraft dropped a large consignment of arms including several hundred AK-47 rifles and more than a million rounds of ammunition over a large area in Jhalda, Ghatanga, Belamu, Maramu villages of Purulia district on the night of December 17, 1995.
Several days later, when the plane re-entered Indian airspace, it was intercepted by the Indian Air Force MiG-21 and forced to land in Mumbai. (ANI)
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