Revoke suspension, Kunal writes to didi
Kolkata: A day after he was suspended from the Trinamool Congress for anti-party activities, Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh on Sunday wrote to party supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, seeking revocation of the suspension order. Ghosh said he was ready to face an intra-party inquiry into the allegations made by him. “I have written a letter to Mamata Banerjee seeking revocation of the order of suspension from TMC that I have been served with. I am ready to face any intra-party inquiry over allegations that I had made,” Ghosh said.
Rajnath to walk 5 km
on plight of farmers
Beed: BJP president Rajnath Singh will walk five kms as part of a ‘padyatra’ (march) organised by the party to highlight the plight of farmers, specially those producing sugarcane, cotton and soyabean. Announcing this at a Press conference on Sunday, senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde said Singh would participate in the last leg of the 375-km rally, which began from lodga in latur district.
Terrorists operating
from Bangladesh: BSF
Agartala: Terrorists of Indian insurgent outfits are operating from 22 ‘hideouts’ in border areas of Bangladesh, a top BSF official said on Sunday. The ultras are carrying out anti-India activities from 22 ‘hideouts’ in Bangladesh, mostly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Inspector General (IG) of BSF, Tripura Frontier, RK Mishra said. “The hideouts are mostly in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of the country. Five to six of them are within five km from the international border,” Mishra said.
Manipur: Jawan hurt
in attack by militants
Imphal: An Assam Rifles jawan was seriously injured when armed insurgents attacked an AR post at Indo-Myanmar border in Manipur’s Ukhrul district, the police said on Sunday. About 100 insurgents, who allegedly crossed Indo-Myanmar international border, attacked the post of 44th AR Battalion (D-Coy) at Komkang area by opening fire from different directions while the jawans were participating in a drill.