CM Suvendu gives 'free-hand' to police, says 'stone-pelting' will be eradicated like Kashmir

Chief Minister and Home Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday paid a high-profile visit to the Deputy Commissioner’s office in Kolkata to personally meet the police personnel injured during the recent violent clashes at Park Circus. Standing at the site of the unrest, Adhikari issued a fierce, uncompromising warning to rioters and anti-social elements who engaged in mass stone-pelting and public vandalism. He stated that just as stone-pelting was successfully eradicated in Jammu and Kashmir, it will be completely wiped out from West Bengal under his watch.

This comes a day after the chaotic demonstration at the Park Circus Seven Point crossing, where local mobs heavily pelted bricks at security forces and vandalized multiple police vehicles. Infuriated by the blatant disregard for law and order, Adhikari explicitly announced that the state police department has been granted a complete 'free hand' to deal with street violence and unlawful assemblies.

He made it clear that his administration will not tolerate targeted aggression against uniform personnel, vowing to mobilize the full punitive might of the state machinery to protect law enforcers. Sending a clear political message to the perpetrators, Adhikari emphasized that the era of political appeasement and administrative leniency has concluded with the recent change of guard in Bengal.