QKolkata: 'Didi Ke Bolo' Gains Pace; Birbhum Reporter Attacked

1. Mamata Outreach Drive Gains Pace

Over 1.5 lakh calls and digital responses were received in the first 24 hours of the launch of Mamata Banerjee’s “Didi Ke Bolo (Tell Didi)” outreach initiative.

The official Twitter handle of the initiative — being handled by a team of over 250 from poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) — posted on Tuesday that the resources mobilised for handling the calls and digital responses were being enhanced.

“In the last 24 hours, more than 1 lakh people have called on the #DidiKeBolo phone number. Currently, 250+ people are working round the clock on this. We are further ramping up our resources to handle the overwhelming response. We thank you for your patience!” it tweeted after complaints that calls to the number, 9137091370, were not going through.

(Source: The Telegraph)

Also Read: Mamata Kicks Off 2021 Poll Campaign With ‘Didi Ke Bolo’ Phone Line

2. Bombs Hurled At Birbhum Reporter Home

Crude bombs were hurled at the house of ABP Ananda

correspondent Gopal Chatterjee in Birbhum’s Suri early on Tuesday, with the journalist suspecting that illegal sand-miners were behind the attack.

Within two hours of the incident, unidentified miscreants threw similar bombs in front of the bungalow of district magistrate Moumita Godara Basu in Suri.

Chatterjee said he had reported on illegal stocking of sand recently and mentioned such miners in his police complaint.

The police have started probes into both the incidents. “We have started investigations into both incidents. No one has been arrested so far,” district police chief Shyam Singh said.

(Source: The Telegraph)

3. MP Satabdi Roy Keen To Return Cash

Trinamool Congress MP Satabdi Roy has written to the Enforcement Directorate, saying she would like to return Rs 29 lakh that she had received from Saradha as part of a contract with the fund mobilising firm.

Roy has been interrogated by central investigating agencies in connection with Saradha and Rose Valley cases and ED sleuths said they were verifying the amount she had mentioned in her letter.

In 2015, former Trinamool Rajya Sabha member Mithun Chakraborty had returned the money he had received from Saradha. Chakraborty returned over Rs 1.19 crore to the ED through a bank draft.

The ED had summoned Roy for questioning, but she didn’t turn up.

(Source: The Telegraph)

Also Read: How Ex-Kolkata Top Cop Rajeev Kumar Got Embroiled in Ponzi Schemes

4. Elderly Couple Brutally Killed In Bansdroni Home

A middle-class locality in Bansdroni woke up to the murder of a septuagenarian couple, who had been staying in the area since the 1970s, on Tuesday morning. Cops suspect the killers were after the cash the couple kept in their two-storeyed house but are also probing a property angle after the housemaid said they got threat calls from a developer.

A plumber and a male attendant were the first to see the bodies of 78-year-old Dilip Mukherjee and his 71-year-old wife, Swapna. The latter’s body was lying on the landing, throttled with a rope. Dilip’s lifeless body was kept on a chair in the bedroom, a towel stuffed in his mouth. A pillow lying next to the body could have been used to smother him, cops said. The couple did not have children, cops said, and so it was not clear who would inherit the five-cottah plot with the house, the only old two-storeyed property in a neighbourhood chock-a-block with apartment buildings.

(Source: The Times Of India)

5. Property Owners Can Apply Online For Mutation

The Kolkata Municipal Corporation was set to start a facility, under which property owners could apply online for mutation, announced deputy mayor Atin Ghosh on Tuesday.

He made this announcement in response to a query by RSP councillor Debasish Mukherjee on long pending mutation cases at KMC borough offices.

Ghosh, who is also in charge of the KMC revenue department, said the KMC assessment department officials would track the applications and a timeline would be given within which the mutation process would be complete. The exercise, according to Ghosh, aimed at sparing property owners unnecessary delay. He pointed out the simplified process would nudge more property owners to get their mutation done and that, in turn, would fetch the KMC revenue.

(Source: The Times Of India)