West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee came down heavily on party leaders, MLAs, ministers and councillors on Thursday and said that no one would be spared if found to be engaged in land grabbing and the illegal sale of government land. Her warning came after a Trinamool leader and two others connected with illegal land dealings were arrested from Siliguri.
Debasish Pramanik, the Dabgram-Fulbari block president, who had reportedly been grabbing government land, was nabbed on Wednesday night. Pramanik had allegedly sold off several pieces of government land. Two more persons engaged in the illegal land business were nabbed on Thursday.
“I have directed the arrest of the Trinamool leader of Dabgram-Fulbari,” Banerjee said. “You cannot sell government land by taking money. We must take stock of the land transfers that have happened in the past seven years,” Banerjee told officials.
“First, you are allowing people to settle and then uproot them with bulldozers. The councillors and leaders in areas where such encroachments and illegal grabbing of government land happens will be arrested. Even the police will not be spared,” she said.
