No government aid for 14 homeless families

KORAKATI: Eight houses that were torched leaving 14 families homeless at Korakati village in Sandeshkhali, North 24-Parganas is yet to get any aid from the government.
To add to their woes, the police have virtually imposed a curfew forcing the ill-fated family members to live in their gutted houses.
Korakati village panchayat is controlled by the BJP.On Friday evening, CPM leader Harshit Mondal was murdered near the house of Manimohan Mondal.
Next day, the house of Bijoy Krishna Mondal was torched. Wife of Bijoy Krishna complained that the miscreants asked them whether they would leave the BJP. "When we retorted, ''why should we?'' they sprinkled kerosine oil and set our house on fire."
The situation turned worse on Sunday, November 3. A gang of about 12 persons, brandishing the CPM party flag, torched the houses of Manimohan Mondal, Prabhas Roy, Olipada Mondal, Thakurdas Mondal and Kalipada Bawlia in broad daylight.
"We are all starving, including my twoyear-old son and my seventy-year-old ill father-in-law," sobbed Basanti, daughter-in-law of Thakurdas Mondal.
They even tried to set sub-inspector Biswajit Ghosh of the Sandeshkhali PS on fire when he tried to resist. After the houses were torched, more people joined the gang and marched through the village with CPM flags, informed several villagers. He refused to comment though.
A BJP team visited the spot last Sunday.
Party emergency cell convener Anindya Gopal Mitra and vice-president Sushanta Ghosh informed that they would send this enquiry report to the Union home ministry as directed by state party chief Tathagata Roy.