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Kolkata: Trinamool Congress main Mamata Banerjee connected Sunday called disconnected a scheduled gathering with her party's legislators aft lone 20 of 80 MLAs turned up, with the enactment blaming the wide lack connected a "sudden and emergent crushed situation" triggered by attacks connected elder functionaries and respective arrests statewide.Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, speaking extracurricular Mamata's residence successful southbound Kolkata's Kalighat, insisted the absentee MLAs were "stuck managing the crushed concern and assisting arrested workers" aft constabulary enactment against enactment members protesting attacks connected nationalist wide caput Abhishek Banerjee and, later, his MP workfellow Kalyan Banerjee."All our legislators person said they basal firmly with the enactment during these hard times," Ghosh told reporters, adding that TMC called disconnected the gathering "for the clip being" aft the absent MLAs made a "legitimate request" for postponement.Sources said Mamata informally spoke to the 20 legislators who did attend. Ghosh announced block-level and municipal ward rallies Monday to "decry the attacks connected Abhishek Banerjee, Kalyan Banerjee and each our workers who are victims of BJP's post-poll terror".Mamata volition pb a daylong sit-in Tuesday astatine the Rani Rashmoni Road protestation tract successful cardinal Kolkata's Esplanade against what Ghosh, MLA from Beleghata, described arsenic "ongoing post-poll unit and inhumane hawker evictions being carried retired with bulldozers".
The scrapped gathering and protestation plans coincided with the apprehension of 3 erstwhile MLAs, aggregate councillors and 2 section strongmen connected charges ranging from corruption to information successful the 2021 post-poll violence, including effort to execution and obstruction of nationalist servants.Purbasthali North ex-MLA Tapan Chattopadhyay was arrested aft a 7am raid connected charges of alleged corruption involving alleviation materials.
Police said they confiscated 300 tarpaulins, alleviation blankets and sports equipment, including footballs, volleyballs and jerseys, from his house.Former Burdwan South MLA Khokon Das was arrested from Handi successful UP successful transportation with an extortion lawsuit and a 2021 post-poll unit charge. Das stands accused of intimidating a masonry idiosyncratic connected May 12 portion allegedly claiming to beryllium a "future BJP office-bearer".Former Chinsurah MLA Asit Mazumder was arrested alongside Hooghly-Chinsurah municipal president Saumitra Ghosh, vice-chairperson Partha Saha and 3 councillors - Samir Sarkar, Ranjan Raha and Nirmal Chakraborty - for allegedly obstructing constabulary during a blockade to protestation the onslaught connected Abhishek.In West Midnapore, Kotwali constabulary arrested Midnapore municipality councillor Bishwanath Pandab, his lad Prosenjit and his nephew connected attempt-to-murder charges.Police besides arrested Azizul Hossain Mondal, erstwhile councillor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, aft a pistillate accused him and his member of assaulting her.
