{"id":1567,"date":"2018-06-28T12:47:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T07:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:07","slug":"dilip-ghosh-terms-encounters-as-a-government-tool-claims-every-government-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/dilip-ghosh-terms-encounters-as-a-government-tool-claims-every-government-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilip Ghosh terms encounters as a \u201cgovernment tool\u201d, claims every government does it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to justify his comment on \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/be-ready-for-encounter-while-beating-bjp-workers-threatens-west-bengal-bjp-president-dilip-ghosh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">encounters<\/span><\/a>\u201d, West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh <span data-term=\"goog_1317102125\">on Wednesday<\/span> termed extra-judicial killings as a government tool to maintain peace in the society.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosh told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/bengal-bjp-chief-dilip-ghoshs-shocker-on-encounters-calls-them-a-governance-tool-1874363?pfrom=home-topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NDTV<\/a> , \u201cAll governments do it in their states, from Uttar Pradesh to Bengal &#8230;. Uttar Pradesh is the champion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He even added that \u201cwhen things go out of control, encounters have to be done to save the society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last week in Jalpaiguri district while speaking at the protest rally held against the district administration Ghosh had given a call to \u201cencounter TMC leaders and workers\u201d while protesting the \u201cTrinamool Congress-sponsored terror\u201d in the state. The police had filed a complained against him for the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosh <span data-term=\"goog_1317102126\">on Wednesday<\/span> also claimed that the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal had killed Maoist leader Kishenji in 2011 in an encounter. \u201cHe 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,\u201d he told NDTV.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Uttar Pradesh is the champion of encounters&#8221;, said Dilip Ghosh <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1567","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}