CM Suvendu Adhikari blames TMC for warehouse collapse: ‘Turned city of joy into city of death’
The death toll in the warehouse crash in Kolkata’s Garden Reach climbed to nine on and four among the injured were in critical condition in hospital, the Bengal chief minister said in the Assembly.
Waving a bunch of documents, Adhikari blamed the previous Trinamool Congress government and Kolkata former mayor and Kolkata Port MLA Firhad Hakim for the disaster.
“The building plan was sanctioned on January 17 this year. We have got all the documents. This [incident] is a consequence of your sins. With bribes you have turned the city of joy into the city of death. Despite multiple incidents you did not learn any lessons, you did not take corrective measures,” Adhikari said.
“A faulty plan with structural defects, faulty designs was cleared by the former mayor. How many similar plans have been sanctioned we do not know.”
“These documents are signed by the former mayor Firhad Hakim.” Adhikari said addressing the Trinamool chief whip Akhruzzaman. “No one will be spared. The engineers who did not discharge their duties, we have got their names,” the chief minister said.
Adhikari said five people have been arrested so far and more arrests will follow.
“We do not know what happened in the KMC. Once Kali (Kalicharan Banerjee, OSD to former mayor Hakim] is arrested everything will become clear,” Adhikari said.
West Bengal's first BJP Govt ready with uniform civil code
The UCC bill will seek to end polygamy and child marriage, the anti-crime bill will allow long-term preventive detention and confiscation of suspects’ properties.
The UCC draft law has been passed by assemblies in Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Assam.
A uniform civil code remains the BJP’s lone unfulfilled “core issue” following the building of a Ram temple in Ayodhya and the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir in 2019.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union home minister Amit Shah had promised a UCC in Bengal during the recent poll campaign.
Multiple sources said the state’s law department spent Wednesday and Thursday working on the drafts of both the bills to secure speedy sanction from chief minister Suvendu Adhikari.
“The government’s floor managers are already clearing the decks for both bills to move to a vote with minimal fuss. It will be a clinical, precision strike,” a source said. “The UCC is happening… unless there is a last-minute need to press the pause button on it until the next session.”
The UCC draft for West Bengal replicates an Assam legislation by enforcing statutory gender parity in matters of ancestral property, outlawing polygamy entirely, and introducing a legal shield against child marriage by invalidating underage unions regardless of customary religious sanctions.
The UCC is enshrined in the Constitution of India under Article 44, which falls under the Directive Principles of State Policy. It suggests the State shall endeavor to secure a UCC, though it is not legally enforceable.
Historically, India’s diverse population has been governed by community-specific personal laws (e.g., The Hindu Marriage Act, Muslim Personal Law).
Uttarakhand Passed the Uniform Civil Code of Uttarakhand Act, 2024, becoming the first state in India to actively implement a statewide UCC.
It addresses marriage age, bans polygamy, and mandates the registration of live-in relationships.
It also stipulates the registration of live-in relationships with local district magistrates, with prison terms for non-compliance, the sources added.
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