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As the crackdown connected Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders continues successful West Bengal, different erstwhile Minister and elder enactment leader, Ujjal Biswas, was arrested on Tuesday (June 9, 2026) in Krishnanagar. Angry protestors successful the area vandalised his house and threw eggs astatine him.
Family members of Mr. Biswas claimed that the attackers were the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) supporters who came wrong his location and attacked him.
The former was held nether allegations of siphoning alleviation materials. Relief worldly siphoning is an allegation that has surfaced against respective leaders, councillors, and MLAs of the party. Many person been arrested, portion respective others faced protests.
Mr. Biswas was the erstwhile MLA of Krishnanagar South constituency and was a elder TMC person from the Nadia area. He had served arsenic the Minister for Correctional Administration of West Bengal.
In a video that went viral connected societal media, Mr. Biswas tin beryllium sitting connected his bureau seat wrong his home, and an aggravated mob lasting successful beforehand of his table threw eggs connected his face. His bureau was also vandalised and files thrown astir by the mob.
The mob raised “thief, thief” slogans as Mr. Biswas engaged successful a scuffle with them. After a agelong stand-off, the section constabulary removed him from the location.
“The tarpaulins that are supposed to beryllium distributed to radical arsenic alleviation during floods are stacked up successful his home,” a section BJP younker leader told media persons. However, a household subordinate of the erstwhile Minister said that the alleviation worldly was stacked successful his location arsenic portion of his Minister’s quota, and was stored to beryllium distributed among radical erstwhile needed.
Several incidents of ovum attacks connected elder Trinamool MLAs, MPs, section leaders, and erstwhile Ministers person been witnessed in West Bengal successful the past month after the enactment mislaid to the BJP. It started with an egg attack on party wide caput Abhishek Banerjee, aft which it has continued across the State.
