The tension between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) flared in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday with Congress president Sonia Gandhi thumping her desk while MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury demanded a court-monitored CBI probe into the death of the party’s councillor in West Bengal.
During Zero Hour, Mr. Chowdhury raised the issue of the murder of Congress councilor Tapan Kandu and the mysterious death of 18-year-old student activist Anis Khan. A four-time Congress councillor of Jhalda municipality in West Bengal’s Purulia district, Mr. Kandu was shot dead on Sunday. Mr Chowdhury alleged the ruling TMC was involved in the murder of Mr. Kandu in collusion with a section of the police.
He also raised the death of the student activist last month and claimed that elections can no longer be held independently in the State amid the prevailing “lawlessness”.
