Minister faces Trinamool women demonstration

Women activist of the Trinamool Congress today demonstrated against West Bengal forest minister Ananta Roy at a function in Mathabhanga in Cooch Behar district today.

The minister went to attend a joint programme organised by the Forest department and the Mathabhanga Municipality at Melar Math Mukta Mancha when a group Trinamool Congress women supporters appeared at the scene and started demonstrating against the minister.

It went on for about an hour. During the agitation they threw off chairs of the pandal and also threw a saree to the minister on the dais. The police then arrived at the scene and nabbed three agitators.

CoochBehar District Trinamool Mahila Congress chairperson Kalyani Poddar said Ananta Roy got elected from Mathabhanga Assembly constituency but did nothing for the people of this constituency.

Poddar alleged that the people of Mathabhanga are suffering, as there has been no bridge on Sutunga river for a long time. Foundation for a new one was done about two years ago but the minister took no initiative to construct the much-awaited bridge. In the name of Sabujayan there is a plan to evict roadside traders from Shani Mandir to Madan Mohan Bari in the town, she alleged.