Demanding a Central probe into the armed attack on a paramilitary force camp at Sildha in West Midnapore district, railway minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee today blamed intelligence failure of the state government for the incident.
"Centre should probe the attack to determine if it was the handiwork of the Maoists or the Marxists that caused the biggest-ever attack on camp of security personnel at Sildha," Banerjee told a TV channel from Delhi.
She said that Centre should probe all aspects of the attack and exemplary punishment should be given to the attackers.
"I can't understand why the state intelligence had no prior information that led to armed attack, blasting, setting fire to the camp, opening fire on personnel and looting all arms... I want to know whose responsibility was there to protect the camp?," she said.
Banerjee alleged that chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's "provocative speeches" in the recent past might be responsible for the incident, adding "the state government can't shirk its responsibility."
"Centre should seriously look into the incident and ask the state government as to why it did not take any preemptive measure to protect the jawans," she said.
