TMC'S 'MUSCLE NO STRANGER TO MAN' ANUBRATA CONTROVERSIES

‘TMC is zero without Mandal in Birbhum district and that is why everyone is ensuring that he should not be arrested by the CBI’.

- DIBYENDU MONDAL

Controversy is no stranger to Anubrata Mandal, the Birbhum district president of Trinamool Congress. From threatening opposition leaders, senior police officers to arranging "muscle men" for the party, to his name being embroiled in illegal activities like sand, stone and cattle smuggling, Mandal is accused of all such things.

Recently, Mandal is once again in the midst of a controversy where his closest aide and bodyguard Saigal Hussain suffered a massive car accident earlier this week, killing Hussain's sixyear-old daughter and leaving him severely injured.

The car accident had taken place in Birbhum district's Ilambazaar area at around midnight when Hussain and his family were returning from Durgapur.

Opposition leaders of Bengal raised suspicion over Anubrata Mandal being one of the suspects behind this accident as the CBI had summoned Hussain for questioning in the cattle smuggling case, after Anubrata Mandal skipped multiple CBI summons for questioning in the same case, citing poor health issues. BJP's national general secretary and Bengal leader Anupam Hazra also raised suspicion over the timing and the place of the accident and said that he would write a letter to the Prime Minister's office requesting for a CBI inquiry into the "untimely" accident of Saigul Hussain. But people in TMC refute all such allegations as murky politics.