Dilip Ghosh terms encounters as a “government tool”, claims every government does it

In an attempt to justify his comment on “encounters”, West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday termed extra-judicial killings as a government tool to maintain peace in the society.

Ghosh told NDTV , “All governments do it in their states, from Uttar Pradesh to Bengal …. Uttar Pradesh is the champion.”

He even added that “when things go out of control, encounters have to be done to save the society.”

Last week in Jalpaiguri district while speaking at the protest rally held against the district administration Ghosh had given a call to “encounter TMC leaders and workers” while protesting the “Trinamool Congress-sponsored terror” in the state. The police had filed a complained against him for the threat.

Ghosh on Wednesday also claimed that the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal had killed Maoist leader Kishenji in 2011 in an encounter. “He was picked up from one place, and killed elsewhere by security forces. What was it? It was an encounter and was considered justified by the government,” he told NDTV.