Mukul does not face security threat: Partha

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Press Trust of India Kolkata
Last Updated : Nov 01 2017 | 6:48 PM IST
Trinamool Congress secretary general Partha Chatterjee today declined to make any comment on the media reports that expelled TMC leader Mukul Roy is being provided security by the Centre, but said that Roy did not face any security threat.
"What can I do", Chattterjee retorted when asked about reports that Roy is being provided 'Y' category security cover by the Centre.
"Not even an ant will attack him. I don't want to make any personal comment against him. If he (Roy)wants to have the security, it is his wish", he said.
On Roy's expulsion from the TMC, Chatterjee said, "We have found that within the party he was involved in anti-party activities using his position. Now everybody can see that the charges levelled against him are true."
Asked if he was satisfied that the central forces were partially withdrawn from Darjeeling Hills, he said, "we are not satisfied. We are asking for more companies of paramilitary forces to be posted in the hills."
Last week the Supreme Court had allowed the Centre to withdraw seven of the 15 companies of Central Armed Paramilitary Forces (CAPF) from strife-torn Darjeeling and Kalimpong districts of West Bengal for being used for election duties in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat.

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First Published: Nov 01 2017 | 6:48 PM IST

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