Oppn barred from entering TMC turf

Cong’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, BJP team stopped from entering strife-torn Sandeshkhali

- PRANAB MONDAL

TURNING strife-hit Sandeshkhali into a no-entry zone for the opposition parties, police on Friday prevented BJP's fact-finding team from Delhi and Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from entering the area and interacting with the women who accused the Trinamool Congress satraps of sexual abuse.

In retaliation, both the members of the fact-finding team and Chowdhury, along with Congress supporters, staged separate sit-ins at the spot where they were intercepted.

Slamming Mamata, the state Congress chief who is known as the TMC supremo's strong critic, termed the Bengal chief minister a "Bengali queen of cruelty".