The CPM on Wednesday issued a seven-point “chargesheet” against police, alleging that Bengal had been turned into a police state during the 11-year chief ministership of Mamata Banerjee.

The charges were made a day before the Martyrs’ Day rally, ruling Trinamul’s event to remember police atrocities on July 21, 1993, when Bengal was ruled by the Left. Thirteen people had died in police firing that day in a protest led by Mamata Banerjee, then a Youth Congress leader.

“The police administration has practically become the slave of the ruling dispensation…We have highlighted some of the issues of the last eleven years from ‘Police State’ Bengal to chargesheet the police-administration,” the press release issued by the CPM read.

“It is time to say ‘Get Out’ to this government, this police administration,” the CPM’s “chargesheet” states.

The CPM “chargesheet” alleges multiple incidents of law-and-order deterioration in Bengal.

It implicates the police in the recent murders of student and youth activists such as Anis Khan, Sudipto Gupta and Moidul Islam Midya.

To substantiate its claim of Bengal turning into a “police raj under the present regime”, the CPM “chargesheet” also mentions two incidents of violence in which cops played a key role to allegedly save ruling party members.

In a 2018 incident, two CPM activists — Debaprasad Das and Usharani Das — were charred to death allegedly by members of the ruling party. The police had said the fire was a result of a short circuit.

In the second incident which happened around eight years ago in Pingla of West Midnapore district, more than 12 persons had been killed in an explosion. While the Opposition claimed that the explosion happened at an illegal bomb manufacturing unit, chief minister Mamata Banerjee had said it was a cracker factory.

“From Anis to Bogtui, Sudipto to Moidul — the chief minister herself had charge-sheeted the cases even before investigations,” the press release read, implying that Mamata gave an opinion on each of the incidents prior to probes.

While the CPM slammed the Mamata regime for being a police state, the Left Front took to the streets on Wednesday to slam the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre to protest against inflation and imposition of GST on certain products of daily use.

The CPM’s state secretary Md Salim led the rally from Shyambazar to Rajabazar in Calcutta.

Another protest march in Gariahat was led by Left Front chairman Biman Bose and CPM leaders Sujan Chakraborty and Surjya Kanta Mishra.

Similar rallies were taken out in several other districts as well.

A press release issued by the Left Front said that the rallies were organised to protest against the Narendra Modi government’s conspiracy to lead the poor towards starvation by inflating the price of products of daily use.