The committee was formed by the party’s national president J P Nadda to probe the alleged incidents of sexual harassment and violence against women in Sandeshkhali.
A day after Lok Sabha privileges committee summoned Chief Secretary BP Gopalika, DGP Rajeev Kumar and other officials, a six-member BJP s Fact-Finding team, comprising two Union Ministers and four MPs, were stopped at Rampur, on their way to Sandeshkhali on Friday. The Committee urged the police to allow them but the area was barricaded and cordoned off.
Congress state president Asish Kumar Saha said, “A meeting has been called on August 22 at the Congress office from where the membership drive will start in different tribal belts of the state. The process will be offline."
The 15-kilometer-long Agartala-Akhaura railway line will link Bangladesh’s Akhaura through an international immigration station at Nischintapur along the India-Bangladesh border