Solicitor General Tushar Mehta denies meeting West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari
The Hindu
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta has denied meeting West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari at his official residence in New Delhi after the Trinamool Congress wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seek
Solicitor General Tushar Mehta has denied meeting West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari at his official residence in New Delhi after the Trinamool Congress wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking his removal over the issue. The letter to the Prime Minister was written by TMC MPs Derek O’Brien, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Mahua Maitra stating that the alleged meeting between Adhikari and the law officer “reeks of impropriety” as the BJP MLA is an accused in Narada and Saradha cases which are being investigated. ”Shri Suvendu Adhikari did come to my residence cum office on Thursday at around 3:00 p.m., 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 building and offered him a cup of tea.A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.