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Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar

Trinamool leader sparks row with social media post, issues clarification

Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, the new Chief Whip of Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha and four-time MP from Barasat constituency in North 24 Paragans district of West Bengal, has sparked a row by making a controversial social media post a day before the state is set to celebrate the four-day Durga Puja festival.

Deploy more Central Forces in Midnapore (E): TMC to EC

Later, Trinamul Rajya Sabha MP and party’s national spokersperson Derek O’Brien and Barasat MP Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar after meeting the officers at Election Commission said, “We have asked the Election Commission to deploy more forces in Egra, Contai (north), Contai (south), Patashpur, and Khejuri as local sources have already intimated local state police that outsiders especially from Uttar Pradesh and other states are being mobilised in these constituencies by BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari to foil free and fair poll.”