Former IPS Bharati Ghosh, Who Called Mamata Banerjee ‘Mother’ of Maoist Areas, Returns Awarded Medals to West Bengal Govt
Controversial IPS officer Bharati Ghosh returned the medal and certificate awarded to her for commendable service by the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, stating that she doesn’t need the ruling dispensation to prove her worth.
Kolkata, March 8: Controversial IPS officer Bharati Ghosh returned the medal and certificate awarded to her for commendable service by the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, stating that she doesn’t need the ruling dispensation to prove her worth. The State government had awarded Ghosh for her service on August 15, 2014.
Informing more about the fringe between Banerjee, she said, as reported by the Hindustan Times, “The chief minister’s office declined to accept them when I sent the medal and certificate through a messenger. So I dispatched them through Speed Post.” Stating more, she added that she should have returned them ‘much earlier’. FIR Must Be Lodged Against Mamata Banerjee for 'pro-Pakistan Remark': Kailash Vijayvargiya.
Ghosh wrote in her letter, “My work speaks in Jungle Mahal, and such medals are not needed. I hope other officers, be it in administrative service or police service, will follow my example and return their medals when they become victims of state repression or injustice.”
“I would have returned the said Medal much earlier, but the damage and loot by CID officers on 01.02.2018 in my matrimonial residence at Naktala left my residence in a shattered condition,” she wrote, adding the medal was dumped by CID officers “under a pile of wreckage.”
The fringe between the former IPS officer and Mamata Banerjee kicked off when Ghosh had described the state CM as the ‘mother’ of the former Maoist-dominated areas of West Bengal. Ghosh was later transferred to a less significant post and faced CID investigation on charges of extortion, after which she resigned from her post.
Earlier on February 4, Ghosh February 4 joined the Bharatiya Janata Party, and during her visit in West Midnapore, she had alleged that the rule of thugs had replaced democracy in her home state. She had further stated that she joined BJP to work and not for any position.
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