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Two Trinamul Congress MPs will meet President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday to demand the removal of solicitor-general Tushar Mehta from his post over the controversy surrounding the visit of BJP legislator Suvendu Adhikari to the law officer’s residence-cum-office in New Delhi on Thursday.
“Our Rajya Sabha member Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra will meet the Honourable President on Monday at 12.30pm. They will draw the President’s attention to the matter and seek Mehta’s removal,” a Trinamul leader said.
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The decision to meet President Kovind comes a day after three Trinamul MPs Derek O’Brien, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Mahua Moitra wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking Mehta’s removal as solicitor-general.
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One of the abiding mysteries of the modern-day Delhi Durbar has been what lies in store for very important persons who drop in “unannounced” at the ubiquitous bungalows in the capital.
An insight has now been provided by Tushar Mehta, who as solicitor-general is the second-highest law officer in the country.
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Mehta said in a statement on Friday: “Sh Suvendu Adhikari did come to my residence cum office yesterday at around 3pm, unannounced. Since I was already in a pre-scheduled meeting in my chamber, my staff requested him to sit in the waiting room of my office and offered him a cup of tea.
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