While talking to the media on Sunday, she said, "Mere candle light marches and tall claims will not help the soldiers' kin survive. In September 2014, one CoBRA jawan Bikash Sutradhar died in a Maoist attack in Chekam jungle. Deputy commandant of CRPF Alok Kumar also got seriously injured in the attack. I remember that at that time, CM of West Bengal promised to give ₹2 lakhs and a job to his family. However, nothing has matured till date."
Martyrs' kin should get respectable not reasonable compensation: BJP leader
New Delhi: Former Indian Police Services (IPS) officer who recently joined the BJP, Bharati Ghosh demanded that the families of the martyred soldiers should not just get "reasonable but respectable compensations".
Former IPS officer Bharati Ghosh recently joined the BJP. (File photo)
Commenting on the CBI versus Kolkata police row, she said that the West Bengal Police was lying that they were being colluded in false cases. She blamed the ruling Trinamool Congress for the entire episode.
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