TEN DEAD IN KOLKATA TORRENTIAL RAIN

Record rain in four decades left Kolkata inundated as ten people die, nine of them due to electrocution, CM blames lapses by private power utility CESC for deaths

- AGENCIES

With large parts of Kolkata thoroughly inundated, public life brought to its knees and at least seven people electrocuted in the wake of widespread and torrential overnight downpour, a political slugfest broke out on social media between the BJP, the state’s prime opposition, and its ruling dispensation, the Trinamool Congress.

While the saffron party took to its social media handles to post pictures and videos of waterlogged streets of Kolkata and accused the TMC-run Kolkata Municipal Corporation of indulging in corruption, the ruling party slammed the BJP for “weaponising pain to spread hate”.

Kolkata struggling to regain normalcy just days before the grand Durga Puja festival.