A Dhaka court today sentenced an incumbent official of Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakka (Rajuk) to six years imprisonment in a case filed for amassing wealth worth Tk 1.36 crore through illegal means and concealing information of Tk 56.87 lakh in his wealth statement.
Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar faced protests in multiple locations of Cooch Behar district on Thursday when he visited some areas that saw post-poll clashes.
His convoy faced black flags, “go back” slogans and questions on why he was silent on the Sitalkuchi deaths.
Dhankhar did not meet the families of four youths of Sitalkuchi who had fallen to CISF bullets on April 10 during polls. Neither did he meet the kin of Ananda Barman, a youth shot on the same day in a clash in another poll booth.
“The governor has always crossed his brief..His visit to Cooch Behar is nothing but a BJP-conceived plan (to further a lopsided version of post-poll violence),” said senior Trinamul leader Sougata Roy.
Born in the pandemic, these libraries in Bengal run with meagre resources but get people reading
One of them is in Kolkata, and the other, in a village. Both were set up to keep schoolchildren amidst books. A class in progress at the Ashina Gramin Library.
The distance between the posh neighbourhood of Patuli in Kolkata and the dusty meandering roads of Ashina village is over 50 kilometres. The villagers of Ashina most likely have never seen the towering housing complexes near the Satyajit Ray Park in Patuli. Similarly, most of the residents of Patuli may have never set foot near Ashina.