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Bengal: Govt relief materials, condoms found from MLA's party office

Durgapur, June 5 (UNI) An angry crowd on Friday raided a Trinamool Congress party office in West Bengal's West Burdwan district and recovered hefty volume of government relief materials in presence of police.
The office is said to be controlled by the former MLA of Pandaveswar Narendranath Chakraborty
The crowd also raided the party office of former Katwa MLA Rabindranath Chatterjee. Chatterjee was the TMC district president of East Burdwan till the party dismantled the entire committees across the state. Narendranath also was the West Burdwan district president of the party.
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