walkout

amid Guv’s address in Assembly

Kolkata: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda

Bose on Wednesday addressed the state assembly for the first time, amid protests by BJP MLAs against “corruption” by the ruling TMC.

The BJP legislators shouted slogans against the Mamata Banerjee government and staged a walkout during the governor’s address. Within a few minutes, after Mr Bose began his address to the House ahead of the state budget

The governor’s speech has no relation with reality. This is one of the most corrupt govts. We staged a walkout as there is no mention of corruption & arrest of TMC leaders.

—Suvendu Adhikari, Leader of the Opposition next week, BJP MLAs led by Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari started shouting slogans against the state government. They also protest- ed against the governor for reading out a speech prepared by the state government, which “has no relation with reality”.

“This is one of the most corrupt governments in the state. We staged a walkout as there is no mention of corruption cases and arrest of TMC leaders in the speech,” Adhikari said.

TMC chief whip Nirmal Ghosh accused the BJP of trying to disturb the assembly proceedings.

Coal scam: ED recovers Rs 1 cr from businessman’s office

New Delhi: Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths, probing the multi-crore coal-smuggling case in West Bengal, reportedly recovered an amount worth Rs 1 crore from the office of a Kolkata-based businessman after a marathon raid and search operation at his residence and office on Wednesday.

Although the ED sleuths have refused to disclose the name of the businessman concerned, they said they have got specific clues that the money recovered from his office was part of the coal scam proceeds which the said business was supposed to divert to different channels. As per the latest report, the ED sleuths have detained the businessman for questioning. Sources said that the said businessman was involved in multiple business activities - the prime of which were real estate and food chain. He is also an owner of a popular dhaba in Kolkata.

It is learnt that the team conducting raid and search operations on Wednesday at the residence and office of the said businessman was led by three special officers of the ED who arrived from New Delhi specially for this purpose. Sources said that the name of the businessman in question came from the examination of different documents & statements given by different witnesses in connection with the coal smuggling scam.