Siliguri/Chopra: CPM’s Sankar Ghosh, who left the party two days ago, has joined BJP. Congress’ Ashok Roy, from Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur, too took the BJP flag from Bengal BJP minder Kailash Vijayvargiya on Friday.
While Ghosh, once a confidante of Ashok Bhattacharya, was upset over selection of candidates, Roy was aggrieved with Congress’ decision to give the Chopra seat to the CPM.
The CPM-turned-BJP leader trained his guns on party veterans who had refused to bring about a change within. “One candidate is winning from Siliguri (Ashok Bhattacharya) while the other candidate (Dilip Singh) is losing from Dabgram-Fulbari. There has been no change in candidate list. How can there be development without change? No one is allowed to raise his voice,” Ghosh said while dumping CPM.
Sanoj Sahani, brother of fire victim RPF jawan Sanjoy Sahani, at SSKM Hospital on Tuesday.
KOLKATA: Sanjay Sahani (36) from Railway Protection Force was not even slated to be in the fire- ravaged Strand Road building on Monday had his senior - Partha Sarathi Mondal, deputy chief commercial manager (database) of Eastern Railway - not come to the New Koilaghat Building from his Sealdah office around late afternoon.
But as fate would have it, both Sahani and Mondal suffered a horrific death inside a lift - asphyxiated and charred - after they had possibly reached the 13th floor accidentally while trying to go down from the second-floor office.
Colleagues of the deceased firemen at the fire brigade HQ
KOLKATA: Twenty three-year-old Biman Purkait had joined the fire services at the headquarters on Free School Street. A resident of the Dhakuria Panchanantala, he was merely 15-years-old when he joined his brother Suman Purkait as part of the local effort to stop the raging AMRI fire. Both of them had resolved to be firefighters. Suman had joined six-and-a-half years ago and Biman joined the fire services three years later in 2018 and got posted with the headquarters. This was supposed to be one of his last assignments before he took a break - he was set for a registry marriage next week with his school sweetheart. He had left home on Sunday evening saying he would be back after 24 hours. Instead, we found him in such a pitiable condition that his devastated father - who runs a tea stall nearby - had to even agree to undergo a DNA test if required, recalled his cousin Ravi Haldar.