Suvendu Adhikari hands over to Amit Shah list of ‘30 false FIRs’ against him

KOLKATA: BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari had a one-on-one meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah at his Parliament chamber on Tuesday.
Adhikari, during the 40-minute meeting, handed over a list of “30 false FIRs” lodged against him in various police stations in Bengal to bring to the Union home minister’s notice how the Bengal government was “misusing” the state machinery against the opposition. Adhikari, while leaving, gifted Shah a booklet named “1956”, that denotes the votes by which he defeated Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram in the 2021 assembly polls.
The Bengal opposition leader also chanced to speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament.
The meeting with Shah and the exchange of words with the PM came as a major boost for Adhikari before his Kanthi public meeting on Wednesday.
According to BJP insiders, Shah took organizational updates from Adhikari ahead of the panchayat polls and also gave him instructions on how to improve cohesion within the BJP, particularly with Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar and BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh.
Adhikari later called on BJP president J P Nadda and vice-president of India Jagdeep Dhankhar and briefed them about the developments in Bengal.
The BJP opposition leader along with Majumdar met Union rural development minister Giriraj Singh and briefed him about the “misuse” of the Prime Minister Awas Yojana (PMAY) and “fake job cards” issued for NREGS (100-day work). The Union rural development ministry in its report had pointed out that the number of job cards issued were more than the population in some blocks of Bengal.
The Bengal BJP leaders wanted the Union rural development ministry to order a probe into the fake job cards and ensure that the fruits of central schemes reached the target beneficiaries.