ED Team Attacked In Bengal: Guv Asks For TMC Leader's Arrest As Congress, BJP Trade Barbs — Top Points

Bose also expressed concern that Sheikh may have 'crossed the border' and asked authorities to investigate his alleged connections with terrorists.

West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose has instructed authorities to arrest Trinamool Congress leader Sahajahan Sheikh, the prime accused in the case of assault on ED officials during a raid at his residence in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas. Bose also expressed concern that Sheikh may have "crossed the border" and asked authorities to investigate his alleged connections with terrorists, as reported by news agency PTI.

Congress slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party over the issue and said that the "where were they all this time?". West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday said that the "BJP keeps harping about Rohingyas. But where were they all this time?". The Congress leader further stated that the saffron party has started politics of polarisation now when the matter is in the news.

The Congress leader reacted to the lookout circular issued by the Enforcement Directorate against Sheikh and said that the probe agency is itself an idiot. "What will ED do?" he asked.

Here Are Top Points:

• Chowdhury slammed the TMC and said that the ruling party in the state works to protect dangerous people in the party, and this is a 'look-after' government.  


• On Saturday, Chowdhury had demanded that presidential rule should be imposed in disturbed areas of the state.


• Reacting to the Congress leader's demand for  President's rule, BJP leader Shehzad Poonawalla said, "TMC means 'Talibani Mindset and Culture' and this has been confirmed by no less than the tallest leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha and in West Bengal - Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury...He has demanded the president's rule in West Bengal. On one hand, Congress allies with TMC and on their hand, their tallest leader says that democracy is in peril in West Bengal...But the Congress party's central leadership has nothing to say...Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi must tell whether they agree with Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury or they do not agree with him. What kind of alliance is this?..."


• West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party president and MP Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday met Governor Bose and expressed urgent concern over the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal. This comes two days after a mob assaulted Enforcement Directorate officers during a raid at his residence in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas.


• Speaking on the attack, BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "Why hasn't the WB Police taken action against the culprits? This was a deadly attack on the ED...Crores of rupees have been recovered from a TMC minister which was supposed to be used for providing free ration to the poor... Has any corrupt been given relief by the court till now?... This is because they don't have answers."


• The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday issued a lookout notice against Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh a day after a mob assaulted ED officers during a raid at his residence, news agency PTI reported, citing an official.


• According to PTI, the move from the probe agency comes amid apprehensions that he might flee the country following the incident on Friday in which three officers of the central agency sustained injuries and several vehicles were damaged by a mob at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district, which is close to the Bangladesh border.


• On the attack on the ED team, TMC leader Kunal Ghosh said that It was an unfortunate incident. "It was an unfortunate incident...Central agencies faced this situation in many states. This is not a new thing. BJP will be out and the INDIA alliance will form the government," ANI reported.