BJP demands Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe into Anandapur warehouse fire

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Seven radical   were identified arsenic  dormant   aft  a occurrence  broke retired  astatine  2  warehouses successful  Anandapur successful  the aboriginal  hours of January 26.

Seven radical were identified arsenic dormant aft a occurrence broke retired astatine 2 warehouses successful Anandapur successful the aboriginal hours of January 26. | Photo Credit: The Hindu

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) connected Saturday (January 31, 2026) demanded a Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the Anandapur warehouse occurrence successful West Bengal, accusing the Trinamool Congress authorities of not taking enactment against the “main culprits”.

At a property conference, BJP spokesperson Guru Prakash Paswan said that 27 radical had mislaid their lives truthful acold and that respective others were inactive missing. “However, neither Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee nor immoderate State Minister has visited the site. They are soundless implicit the full issue,” helium alleged.

Mr. Paswan further alleged that the main enforcement serviceman of Wow Momo had precocious accompanied Ms. Banerjee connected her sojourn to Madrid and questioned wherefore the State authorities had not taken enactment against him. He said the apprehension of the warehouse manager and lawman manager was a specified “token action”.

Describing the incidental arsenic a “man-made disaster”, helium alleged that basal occurrence information norms were not enforced. Mr. Paswan said the Leader of the Opposition successful the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on with BJP workers, staged protests successful Kolkata, condemning the Mamata Banerjee authorities for procedural lapses.

“If we look lone astatine January 2026, incidents specified arsenic mill fires successful West Bengal, the Anandapur mill inferno, the Digberia overgarment mill fire, the Burrabazar chemic fire, the Gangasagar campy fire, and the Nonadanga slum fire, had caused immense suffering to mediocre people... contempt this, the West Bengal authorities appears to beryllium wholly indifferent,” helium said.

“The concern successful West Bengal is nary longer hidden from anyone. As yet different illustration of misgovernance, the information of span operation successful the State has besides travel to light. Structures specified arsenic Majerhat Bridge, Vivekananda Flyover, Ultadanga Flyover, Manganj Canal Bridge, and Kakdwip Bridge are successful an highly mediocre and unsafe condition,” the BJP spokesperson added.

Published - January 31, 2026 10:48 p.m. IST

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