Veteran Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, the Congress candidate from the Baharampur Assembly constituency, was on Saturday (April 5) morning heckled allegedly by Trinamool Congress supporters during his campaign near the BT College in ward 19 of Behrampore town.
The five-time Lok Sabha MP cut short his campaign and left. In 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Adhir Chowdhury was defeated by TMC nominee Yusuf Khan Pathan, a former cricket star who incidentally hails from Gujarat.
Now this is a test case on what should Rahul Gandhi tweet next about Secularism and Vote-chori politics in West Bengal.
The incident, which unfolded around 10am, took a confrontational turn when a group of Trinamool Congress supporters, reportedly led by party councillor Bhiswadeb Karmakar, raised slogans of “Adhir Chowdhury go back”. The sloganeering escalated into a face-off between supporters of the two rival camps, culminating in a clash-like situation despite the presence of central forces.
NIA team and EC likely to submit a report on Malda violence and gherao of judicial officers on Monday
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NIA reconstructs hostage situation; Central agency to scan CCTV footage, Mothabari remains peaceful
The team, which arrived in Malda on Friday, began its day by revisiting the BDO office in the Mothabari Assembly constituency around 10.30am.
The judicial officers, including three women, were detained for hours on Wednesday while they were hearing cases related to “under-adjudication” voters as part of the SIR drive.
A 40-member team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday fanned out across Malda district to probe into the detention of seven judicial officers at the Kaliachak 2 block development officer’s (BDO’s) office on Wednesday.
The team, which arrived in Malda on Friday, began its day by revisiting the BDO office in the Mothabari Assembly constituency around 10.30am. The judicial officers, including three women, were detained for hours on Wednesday while they were hearing cases related to “under-adjudication” voters as part of the SIR drive.
Although NIA officials refrained from speaking to the media, sources in the BDO office said the investigators reconstructed the sequence of events in detail.
“They sought a minute-by-minute timeline of the protest and blockade, enquired about CCTV coverage and collected footage from cameras installed in and around the premises,” a source said (reports The Telegraph).
The team later visited the office of the Malda superintendent of police, where senior officers were questioned about deployment and response mechanisms in the Mothabari and Kaliachak police station areas.
The investigators also inspected the district police control room and wireless communication systems to assess coordination during the incident.
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| Goondaism at Malda |
In the evening, the NIA officers met district magistrate Rajanvir Singh Kapur at the administrative building. Officials remained tight-lipped about the discussions.
The probe comes amid scrutiny over the handling of the situation. Additional director-general of police (north Bengal) K. Jayaraman had on Friday acknowledged delays in rescuing the detained judicial officers.
The affected judicial officers had since been relocated to a hotel on K J Sanyal Road in Englishbazar, from where they are currently discharging their duties.
Malda is the sixth largest city or urban agglomeration in West Bengal
It consists of two municipalities, viz. English Bazar Municipality and Old Malda Municipality, under Malda Metropolitan Area.
The city is located on the banks of the Mahananda River.
Malda was an undeveloped city which was enlarging from 1925 to 1930. The city is growing rapidly nowadays with its population inching towards half a million.
On the arrest of Mofakkarul Islam, the mastermind of the Malda incident, Union Minister and BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar said:
"The NIA investigation going on. Before that, the state CID arresting him felt suspicious to me. Whether this arrest was done for the sake of arrest or to protect him will be known after the investigation. TMC is behind the Malda episode".
Mamata caught in Rahul Gandhi-syndrome how ???
A few days back, addressing an election rally TMC chief Mamata Banerjee asked the gathering ... "How many of you stood in long line for SIR". She expected people would raise hands in large numbers.
She repeated her statement and at one point even said - "What happened, why so silent".
Then what's called Rahul Gandhi-variety of wisdom gripped her. She asked - "How many of you stood in long line during denomination (note-ban of 2016)". And people did respond.
The moral of the lesson - the populism is no longer working. And perhaps more importantly - she is loosing the touch of a maestro in the ability to read crowd's mind.
This comes in the life of demagogues and quite often and all that is happening in West Bengal polity of 2026.
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| 2014 - New Delhi : Empty chairs greeted Mamata in Ram Lila Ground |
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