Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday declared “zero tolerance” towards vandalism and attacks on police personnel, warning of the strictest legal action and asserting that if such incidents recur, “no one will be worse than me as the home minister”.
Drawing a parallel with Jammu and Kashmir, where stone-pelting had ended, Adhikari said such a “culture” would no longer continue in West Bengal either, as he issued a “final warning”, a day after protests against a bulldozer drive linked to action against “illegal structures” turned violent in Kolkata’s Park Circus-Tiljala area.
Addressing reporters after visiting the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Southeast) and meeting police officers and injured personnel following Sunday’s violence in the Muslim-majority Park Circus area, Adhikari projected a tough law-and-order stance while drawing a sharp contrast with the functioning of earlier administrations.
