Suvendu Adhikari "Harbouring Criminals", Trinamool Writes To Poll Panel

The party has also written another letter to the Commission, in which it asked for the arrest of all anti-social elements in Purba Medinipur district -- an area controlled by Suvendu Adhikari and his family

The Trinamool Congress has written to the Election Commission, alleging that Suvendu Akhikari -- Mamata Banerjee's rival in Nandigram -- is harbouring criminals and anti-socials and putting them up in different hotels and guesthouses of the state. Senior party leader Derek O'Brien, who wrote to the Commission, claimed that in spite of the local police being apprised of this, no action had been taken. The letter names series of locations, alleging that Mr Adhikari has put up criminals who are not residents of the state, in those places. "Locally, police have been informed of this, however, no steps have been taken yet. We call upon you to immediately intervene and direct necessary steps to be taken by the police under your supervision to forthwith apprehend all the outside criminals hired and harboured by Suvendu Adhikari at the above locations," the letter read. The party has also written another letter to the Commission, in which it asked for the arrest of all anti-social elements in Purba Medinipur district -- an area controlled by Mr Adhikari and his family.