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Bengal: Suvendu accuses TMC of backing Rohingya Muslims for electoral gains

Kolkata, July 16 (UNI) Countering West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's allegation that BJP was "anti Bengal", the Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari today charged the state's ruling Trinamool Congress with sheltering the Rohingya Muslims as part of its vote bank politics.
He also accused the Trinamool of changing the demography of the border state by bringing in Bangladeshi infiltrators.
Demanding a fresh intensive revision of voter lists like what is being done in poll-bound Bihar, he sought a door to door search to detect Rohingya infiltrators.
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Twenty rebel TMC MPs announce merger with NCPI, seek separate seating in Lok Sabha

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Bihar higher education minister discusses educational reforms with Dharmendra Pradhan

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CID questions Abhishek Banerjee for over eight hours in assembly signature forgery case

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Kolkata, June 14 (UNI) Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was questioned by officers of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for nearly eight-and-a-half hours on Sunday in connection with the alleged Assembly signature forgery case.

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Arunachal's Mebo, Sikkim's Temi forge Sister Constituency partnership to promote tourism

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