Kolkata Apr 21 PTI Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take action against an IAS officer of West Bengal for allegedly flouting service rules by renaming three central projects in an official orderSharing his letter to the PM on Twitter the BJP leader claimed that Uttar Dinajpur District Magistrate Collector Arvind Kumar Mina a central cadre officer has renamed the central schemes to make them look like those of the state government and tried to steal undue creditAdhikari also posted a copy of that April 20 order on his Twitter handle after digitally marking the renamed schemesThe ruling Trinamool Congress claimed that Adhikaris post exposes his ignorance about governanceThis order exposes political leaning misplaced prejudice to promote the agenda of the ruling party of WB ie to rebrand central government schemes as their own and try to steal undue credit the Nandigram MLA tweetedHe said the IAS officer had referred to Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana as Bangla Awas Yojana Swachh Bharat Mission as Mission Nirmal Bangla and Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana as Bangla Gram Sadak YojanaIn these projects the cost is shared between the Centre and state governments in the ratio of 6040 in most statesI believe that you would look into the matter and if you feel my concern is genuine then you would ask competent authorities to take proper action the letter readThe district magistrate could not be contactedTMC national spokesperson Sukhendu Sekhar Roy told PTI Such comments by him Adhikari reveal his ignorance about governance There is little point in rebutting Suvendu Adhikaris arguments and giving him undue importance PTI SUS NN NN

Kolkata April 18 PTI The hearing into Mukul Roys disqualification as an MLA will begin again in West Bengal assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee who had earlier dismissed a petition on it said on Monday Assembly sources said the hearing in the case is likely to begin this Friday The honourable court has sent a reminder I will look into it legally I will call both parties and hold a hearing Banerjee told reporters here Calcutta High Court had last week set aside the speakers order dismissing a petition by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari seeking disqualification of TMC lawmaker Mukul Roy as a member of the House on the ground of defection and restored the matter for fresh consideration Roy a former BJP national vice-president had defected to the ruling TMC from BJP in June 2021 after winning the assembly poll in West Bengal on a BJP ticket In February this year Banerjee had dismissed Adhikaris petition of June 17 2021 seeking Roys disqualification as an MLA under the anti-defection law for switching sides after the election BJP MLA Ambika Roy had moved the HC in July last year challenging Roys election as chairman of the Public Accounts Committee PAC and prayed for the nomination of an opposition member to the post as per tradition PTI PNT KK KK KK