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The Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari visited Sandeshkhali on Tuesday morning after court's intervention. Adhikari was earlier stopped twice from visiting the area.
Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government and main opposition in the state BJP engaged in a political slugfest over the Sandeshkhali stir. The ruling TMC accused the BJP of defaming the state, while the saffron party attacked the government over the law and order situation in the state.
Some villages in Sandeshkhali community development block II in North 24 Parganas district have been witnessing protests over allegations of sexual abuse of women by some local TMC leaders and their associates and also land grabbing from villagers.
Several women in the Sandeshkhali accused the local TMC strongman Shajahan Sheikh and his supporters of land-grab and sexually assaulting them under coercion. Shajahan has been absconding after a mob attacked ED officials who has gone to search his premises in connection with a corruption case.
In March 2022, Suvendu Adhikari and four other BJP MLAs were temporarily suspended from the House for creating a disturbance during the budget session. The suspension was later rescinded by the Speaker.
"I have written to the ED director as well the principal director general of the Income Tax Department and the Secretary in the Union Health Ministry seeking a central agency probe in the matter," Suvendu Adhikari said.
The TMC has alleged that the Centre withheld the funds of some of the central schemes in West Bengal. Its leaders staged a protest in the national capital against the BJP-led Centre. Suvendu Adhikari has demanded a CBI probe into the alleged "corruption" of the Mamata Banerjee government.
Responding after Dharmendra Pradhan's comments on Abhishek Banerjee, TMC Minister Dr. Shashi Panja said that Abhishek has no fear, the CBI has not found anything against him.
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The Odisha train tragedy turned into a political agenda for the both TMC and BJP as they engaged in a usual political slugfest over such a human tragedy in which over 250 people lost their lives.
West Bengal panchayat polls: BJP leader Adhikari had filed a PIL against this which was dismissed by the division bench of the Calcutta High Court's Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bhardwaj on March 28.
Dearness Allowance Hike: BJP's Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday claimed that the difference in DA between employees of the Centre and the state government now stands at 36 per cent.
West Bengal Stampede: A senior police officer claimed that several local BJP workers, who attended the event, had their homes raided, and six of them were later detained in Asansol at various locations.
West Bengal stampede: The stampede broke out as people rushed to the stage in an effort to collect blankets after the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP left the venue in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman district.
West Bengal panchayat polls: Adhikari, who was addressing a party workers’ meeting in Nandigram constituency in Purba Medinipur district, said this time, the situation will not be similar to that of the 2018 polls.
CAA in West Bengal: Suvendu Adhikari stated during a meeting in the Matua-dominated Thakurnagar neighbourhood of North 24 Parganas District that the CAA does not imply that anyone's citizenship will be revoked if one is a bonafide resident with proper documentation.
Suvendu Adhikari, through his letter to Piyush Goyal, took a dig at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Festive Schemes.
Mominpur violence: With the BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's letter for CRPF deployment in Kolkata, the political battle has intensified between BJP and TMC in West Bengal. It seems Mominpur violence became the latest flashpoint between the two embattling sides.
BJP's protest march in Kolkata: To prevent the procession, the West Bengal Police had turned the 5-kilometre radius around Nabanna into a fortress.
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