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Last Update: June 17, 2023, 5:40 PM IST
BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari and Mamata Banerjee. (PTI)
Demanding the Income Tax Department to initiate an inquiry into this alleged suppression of financial facts, the officer also accused Shahjahan Sheikh of killing several local BJP leaders in Basirhat sub-division in North 24 Parganas sub-division after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Was accused.
Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Shubhendu Adhikari on Saturday demanded an inquiry into the unusually high number of nominations filed by the ruling Trinamool Congress for the state panchayat elections on June 14 within a short span of time.
He tweeted, “It should be probed that TMC filed around 40,000 nominations within 4 hours on 14th June and 36,000 nominations within the stipulated time period of 11am to 3pm on 15th June, while their The candidates were not in queue at the enrollment centres.”
In the same message, he accused Trinamool Congress candidate Shahjahan Sheikh from North 24 Parganas district of suppressing financial facts in the affidavit attached with his nomination.
“Whereas, this person, who owns and operates a number of fish farms, fish processing plants and allied businesses; brick kilns and a shopping complex at Saraberia Mor; It is written in the nomination paper that his annual income is only 19 lakh 83 thousand only! The person who has many buildings, many acres of land and has recently built a new house in Park Circus Kolkata; Whose valuation is in several crores as mentioned in their nomination papers that the value of their land and building is only about 5 crores,” read the message.
Demanding the Income Tax Department to launch a probe into this alleged suppression of financial facts, the officer also accused Shahjahan Sheikh of killing several local BJP leaders in Basirhat sub-division of North 24 Parganas after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
“In 2019, after the Lok Sabha elections, Basirhat sub division witnessed the worst kind of post-poll violence. Shahjahan Sheikh masterminded the attacks on BJP workers after a significant number of voters in several gram panchayat areas voted in favor of the BJP. Pradeep Mandal and Sukant Mandal; Several other BJP leaders and workers were killed in Sandeshkhali; North 24 Parganas District. Since he had the highest level of protection, the law could not catch up with him,” the BJP leader’s message claimed.
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