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Mamata Sets Date for Murshidabad Visit Amid Oppn Heat

Financial Express Lucknow

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April 23, 2025

While several leaders in West Bengal from various Opposition parties, including the BJP, CPI(M), and Congress, have made a beeline to the riot-torn Murshidabad, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has yet to visit the district.

- Sweety Kumari

The state Opposition has raked up Mamata's "absence" from Murshidabad to hit out at the TMC government, pointing out that she also holds the Home portfolio. The district was rocked by communal violence on April 11 in the wake of protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act.

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