Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal on Monday asserted that the law and order situation in West Bengal is “not good at all”. The newly appointed union minister of state for Law and Justice was on an official visit to the city.
Asked by reporters about some recent incidents in the state, including a blast at Egra in Purba Midnapur district claiming 12 lives, he said, "I feel that the law and order situation in West Bengal is not good at all. But I will survey that first and then will be able to speak (more) on that."
On Tuesday's scheduled meeting between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal at ‘Nabanna’, the state secretariat here, Meghwal said he was trying to drum up support over his opposition to an ordinance brought by the central government.
The BJP-led government at the Centre has brought an ordinance related to the transfer and posting of officers in the Delhi government. Meghwal claimed that Kejriwal, who had an interaction with Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Sunday, is meeting non-BJP chief ministers over the ordinance.
"The ordinance has been brought in accordance with constitutional provisions. Those who are in power can bring an ordinance and we have done that," he said at the airport here. Meghwal, who is also the MoS in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, said that a debate can always be held in Parliament since it has to be tabled before the House. He claimed that Kejriwal is upset that allegations of corruption against him are coming out in the open.
