The ruling dispensation in the state had on August 3 objected to the West Bengal government's move to paint the dam in shades of white and blue.
Ranchi/Kolkata: Two days after Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha activists resisted workers of the West Bengal government from painting the Massanjore dam's walls, Jharkhand minister Louis Marandi on Sunday threatened to “gouge out eyes” of those who dared to look at the barrage. Marandi, who holds the minority welfare and women and child development portfolios, also said that she would not “tolerate any misdoing” on the part of the Bengal government.
“If someone dares to look at the Massanjore dam, we will gouge out his eyes. (Agar koi ankh uthake dekhenga, hum uska ankh nikal lenge),” said the minister, who is the BJP MLA from Dumka. The ruling dispensation in the state had on August 3 objected to the West Bengal government's move to paint the dam in shades of white and blue as it was located in Jharkhand. In respo-nse, Bengal minister Som-en Mahapatra, he said the dam was maintained by his government, and “nobody had any right” to stop its workers.
