Bengal Guv Directs Red Cross To Help Murshidabad Violence-Hit People

Kolkata: Amid the continuing tension in pockets of West Bengal, which witnessed violent protests against the Waqf Act, Governor CV Ananda Bose's office has directed Indian Red Cross Society (IRCS) to provide immediate relief to the people in the riot-affected areas, particularly in Murshidabad and Malda districts and other disturbed areas.

The chairman of IRCS, S.K. Pattanayak, and the chief nodal officer of the rapid action cell of Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, have been appointed as the nodal officers for the same.

Meanwhile, no fresh report of violence from the troubled pockets in the Murshidabad district has been reported since Sunday night till the time the report was filed.

The Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) personnel have been conducting route marches frequently in the troubled areas in the district, namely Suti, Suti, Jangipur, Dhulian, and Samserganj, among others, the areas that were most affected by violence and riot-like situations. Sources from the district administration said that now the process has also started to bring back the families who became homeless following the violence that started on the night of April 8.