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Ever since the alteration of authorities successful West Bengal, respective Trinamool Congress leaders person recovered themselves connected the incorrect broadside of the law, facing charges ranging from corruption to engagement successful violence.
The constabulary successful Krishnanagar arrested Sarajit Biswas, a panchayat functionary, connected charges of extorting wealth from respective factories and workers. Over the past 7 days, aggregate Trinamool Congress leaders astatine the gram panchayat level person been arrested. Another enactment leader, Rajdeep De, the pradhan of Kamarpukur panchayat successful Hooghly district, was arrested from Tarakershwar connected charges of extortion. While some leaders claimed governmental vendetta, constabulary said they had received circumstantial complaints against them.
Raju Panrui, a councillor from Baidyabati successful Hooghly district, was arrested connected charges of threatening BJP supporters during the precocious concluded Assembly polls. Other arrests see panchayat pradhan Smritikana Mondal and her hubby Anil Mondal from Billaimari successful Ratua artifact of Malda district, accused of misappropriating ₹13 crore from a section co-operative bank. The constabulary besides arrested Saddam Sheikh, a Trinamool commercialized national leader, connected charges of extorting wealth from e-rickshaw drivers.
In Falta, South 24 Parganas, wherever re-elections are scheduled for May 21, the constabulary arrested Saidul Khan, vice-president of Falta Panchayat Samity and adjacent adjutant of Jahangir Khan, the Trinamool campaigner successful the elections.
From Cooch Behar successful the northbound to South 24 Parganas successful the south, arrests person been made successful astir each districts of West Bengal. The crackdown intensified aft Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari connected Saturday (May 16, 2026) urged radical to record complaints against those who had allegedly extorted wealth from them during the erstwhile Trinamool Congress regime.
In Howrah district’s Amta, a ample radical of aggravated villagers, peculiarly women, protested and tried to vandalise the location of Kachmuli panchayat pradhan Anjali Dalui. Locals claimed that they had lodged aggregate complaints against Anjali Dalui and her husband, Tarun Dalui, an influential section Trinamool leader, implicit allegations that they were compelled to wage bribes to the panchayat pradhan to entree funds nether the Awas Yojana and unafraid enactment nether the ‘100-day’ agrarian employment scheme.
In different incidental successful Birbhum’s Nanoor area, 2 Trinamool leaders of Kankalitala gram panchayat — Mamoon Sheikh and Alef Sheikh — returned wealth allegedly collected arsenic “penalties” from BJP supporters aft the 2021 Assembly polls. Eleven BJP supporters reportedly received refunds.
Addressing a nationalist gathering successful Falta connected Sunday (May 17, 2026), State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said that the Trinamool Congress would cease to beryllium arsenic a enactment successful the years to come.
In different development, a ample fig of Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) were recovered scattered successful a tract successful Kirnahar village, Birbhum district, connected Sunday (May 17, 2026). The tract is adjacent to the residence of a erstwhile Booth Level Officer (BLO), Hiranyaprabha Mete Maji. The ex-BLO, who earlier served successful Purba Bardhaman district’s Ketugram block, was questioned by constabulary implicit the matter.
Meanwhile, implicit a 100 Aadhaar cards, on with PAN cards and land-related documents, were recovered from a Trinamool Congress enactment bureau successful Bidhannagar.
BJP leaders person alleged connected respective occasions that Trinamool leaders had collected Aadhaar cards and different documents similar MGNREGA occupation cards and stored them successful section offices. Following the alteration of authorities aft the precocious concluded 2026 Assembly polls, respective Trinamool enactment offices person reportedly been opened by locals and BJP workers, with immoderate adjacent occupied by BJP supporters, contempt elder enactment leaders similar Samik Bhattachrarya urging enactment supporters not to instrumentality implicit Trinamool Congress enactment offices.
