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After days of evading police, Trinamool Congress MLA from Bishnupur Dilip Mondal was connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) arrested by the West Bengal constabulary from Puri successful Odisha. The MLA is apt to beryllium brought to the metropolis connected transit remand.
The Trinamool Congress MLA has allegedly threatened Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers during the West Bengal Assembly polls and a constabulary ailment was filed against him. For the past 2 weeks the West Bengal constabulary were connected the lookout for the MLA and adjacent arrested his son. Mr. Mondal is the archetypal sitting MLA to beryllium arrested by the West Bengal police.
Since the BJP came to powerfulness successful West Bengal astir 100 arrests person been made by the police, astir of which person progressive section level Trinamool Congress workers against whom allegations of corruption and post-poll unit successful the 2021 Assembly elections person surfaced. Not lone the police, but the Enforcement Directorate person arrested erstwhile Minister Sujit Bose for his alleged relation successful the Municipal recruitment scam.
Mass resignations
While the Trinamool leaders are facing arrests each crossed the State, determination person besides been wide resignations. A time aft participating successful a gathering with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, elder Trinamool Congress person Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar resigned from each organisational portfolios of the enactment today. The four-term MP wrote a missive to Trinamool State president Subrata Bakshi, urging him to judge her resignation letter. Dr Ghosh Dastidar is the not the lone Trinamool person to springiness up organisational post, respective councillors of Trinamool Congress person resigned from the post. On Wednesday (May 27, 2026), Trinamool person Sushanta Ghosh and Arup Chakraborty discontinue posts successful the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Large magnitude of currency was recovered from the properties of Dipankar Bhattacharya, Chairman of Baduria Municipality. Mr. Bhattacharya was arrested a fewer days agone but connected Wednesday (May 27, 2026) investigators recovered currency successful respective suitcases buried in the cultivation onshore owned by the Trinamool leader.
The Trinamool enactment is facing different situation that contempt being the rule Opposition enactment successful the State with 80 MLAs, nary country has been allocated Leader of Opposition Sovandeb Chattopadhyay successful the premises of State Assembly.
On Wednesday (May 27, 2026), Mr. Chattopadhyay on with Trinamool MLA Kunal Ghosh held a sit-in protestation extracurricular West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose’s enclosure for allegedly not gathering with them. “We person travel to conscionable the speaker... Our elder astir MLA is sitting present to speech to the Speaker... This is democracy...” Mr. Ghosh said. The Trinamool enactment is upset with nary country being allocated to Sovandeb Chattopadhyay successful the Assembly premises.
