Beeline for Kolkata's Bangladesh Mission

kolkata: reacting to the refugee influx from bangladesh, mainline political parties in the city are making a beeline to the bangladesh deputy high commission with their deputation. all of them have the same agenda: atrocities on minorities in bangladesh. on tuesday, state's main opposition party trinamul congress will send a delegation of its legislature party to submit a memorandum to the deputy high commissioner tauhid hussein.a day earlier, it will be the turn of the bjp on monday. a strong delegation of the party led by state president asim ghosh will visit the deputy high commission. ghosh will be accompanied by bjp state vice-president muzaffar khan. pradesh congress president pranab mukherjee also expressed his concern over reports of attacks against minorities in bangladesh. "this is bangladesh's internal matter. anyone can come to power but minorities should not be attacked," mukherjee said in kolkata on saturday. speaking to newsmen in kolkata, trinamul spokesman and leader of opposition in state assembly pankaj banerjee said that after the change of government in bangladesh, reports of atrocities on minorities were pouring in. and now refugees have started to arrive. "we thought that the state government will look into the matter. but they seem to have no concern. we hope the khaleda zia government will take appropriate measures to ensure the safety of minorities," banerjee said. mamata's room develops cracks: serious cracks developed in trinamul supremo mamata banerjee's house late last night, forcing banerjee to spend wee hours of the morning inside the police camp posted outside her house. "the cracks were there for a few years now. but last night i was quite scared," banerjee said. when contacted, kolkata mayor and senior trinamul leader subrata mukherjee said that he himself had inspected the dilapidated room where the trinamul mp stays. "there is no other alternative but to break the room and reconstruct it," was mukherjee's prescription.