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The newly elected government of West Bengal has announced the biggest and all-round action ever against corruption and syndicate rule in the state. On Friday, senior state minister Dilip Ghosh issued a very aggressive statement and made it clear that corruption will no longer be tolerated in Bengal. He has warned that in the coming days, the central investigating agencies (ED and NIA) and the local police together are going to launch the biggest attack on the corrupt so far. Not only this, on the lines of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, ‘bulldozer policy’ has also been started in Bengal, which has given sleepless nights to the opposition.
“ED, NIA and Police… no one will be left”, sharp attitude of Minister Dilip Ghosh
On Friday morning itself, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had raided the premises of former police officer Shantanu Sinha in the extortion racket case in Kolkata and Murshidabad. Speaking to the media soon after this major action, Minister Dilip Ghosh said:
“Now there will be ED raids in the state, NIA raids and our local police will also conduct vigorous raids. All the corruption that has taken place here – be it sand mafia, coal mafia, mega scam of government land or the case of looting of property of common people, all these things will be investigated in every detail. You can see that bulldozers have started in the state. All this is not going to stop now, it will continue continuously.”
Crackdown on MP Abhishek Banerjee, KMC issues property notice
Meanwhile, another big news is coming out which has created panic in the TMC camp. According to sources, an official notice has been sent by Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to Diamond Harbor MP and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. In this notice, Abhishek Banerjee has been asked to submit complete details of all his properties and related information to the corporation as soon as possible. This step is being seen as the beginning of tightening the administrative noose on Abhishek Banerjee.
TMC will take to the streets against “bulldozer policy”, Mamata Banerjee calls a meeting
Due to this aggressive stance of the government and bulldozer action, Trinamool Congress (TMC) has become fully active. TMC has made it clear that it will take to the streets and launch a big protest against this ‘bulldozer policy’ of the BJP government.
In this connection, an emergency meeting of top party leaders was also held at the residence of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In the meeting, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee expressed strong objection and said that the livelihood of small shopkeepers and the poor is being destroyed through bulldozers. He alleged that the new government is openly making fun of the country’s constitutional ideals and democratic values by taking such unilateral action.
Marathon interrogation of IAS Ansar Shaikh in sand mining scam
Central agency ED is currently tightening its grip not only on politicians but also on corrupt officials. On Wednesday, ED officials rigorously interrogated 2016 batch IAS officer Ansar Shaikh for hours at the CGO Complex in Salt Lake.
This inquiry has taken place in the case of large-scale illegal sand mining and smuggling from the rivers of Jhargram and its surrounding areas. According to the investigators, strong evidence has been found of illegal transactions worth crores of rupees and suspected financial irregularities in this scam, on the basis of which the IAS officer was summoned by a second summons.
Remand of ‘Sona Pappu’ extended by 10 days, strings attached to former DCP and builder
The main kingpin of the land grabbing and extortion racket, Biswajit Poddar alias ‘Sona Pappu’, was again sent to ED custody for 10 days by the court on Tuesday. ED lawyers argued in the court that Sona Pappu is the most important part of the big syndicate, under which former Kolkata Police DCP Shantanu Sinha Biswas and renowned builder Jai Kamdar have already been sent behind bars. The agency is now preparing to expose the faces of the other white collar helpers of this syndicate by putting Sona Pappu in front.
New rule on Bangladeshi infiltrators: Now no jail, Shubhendu government will send them directly across the border
Apart from corruption, the new government has also completely changed its policy on illegal infiltration from across the border. While giving a very strict and historic decision on Thursday, Chief Minister Shubhendu Adhikari said that Bangladeshi infiltrators caught in the state will not be allowed to waste long time in the legal process by producing them in Indian courts.
The Chief Minister announced, ‘The new rule has come into effect from tomorrow. Now instead of sending the infiltrators to jail or court, they will be directly handed over to the Border Security Force (BSF) on the India-Bangladesh border, so that they can be deported back immediately. Political experts believe that this decision of the Shubhendu government has been taken under the strict provisions of the ‘Immigration and Foreigners Act, 2025’ passed by the Parliament last year.