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Bengal Cong. leaders have ISI links: CPI(M)

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KOLKATA NOV. 20. West Bengal's ruling CPI(M) has alleged that a section of the Congress in Murshidabad district has close links with suspected ISI agents who were picked up in Kolkata on Sunday.

The CPI(M) daily, Ganasakti, today front-paged a report which said the Jalangi Youth Congress president, Samsuzzaman Biswas, alias Happy, had links with the suspected ISI agents and was absconding.

On Sunday, nine Bangladeshis, two of them suspected ISI agents, were arrested from the New Market area in central Kolkata. At least four persons, including a woman, were picked up from Murshidabad for allegedly supplying information relating to the Army to Pakistani intelligence.

The CPI( M) has claimed that certain Congress leaders in districts, such as Ziauddin Biswas, had close links with the arrested persons. The CPI(M) has also accused him of running unlawful business activities.

His son, Happy, too, was a participant in such activities, it said. Officers from the State and Army intelligence have reached Murshidabad to interrogate the arrested persons.

The report also alleged that Afazuddin Biswas, Congress leader from Bidhupur, in Murshidabad, had close links with the arrested persons and he, too, was absconding.

Significantly, this is the first time ``Al Qaida-trained terrorists'' have been picked up from the heart of the city. Terrorists had so far been operating from Kolkata's eastern fringes.

Liaquat Hussain Liaquat and Arman Khan had taken shelter in Garia Gardens in south Kolkata, a part of the city terrorists had avoided so far.

The Home Ministry had informed the West Bengal Government some time ago that members of the Al Qaida, which had created its operational base in the neighbouring Bangladesh, were crossing over to the State to conduct subversive activities.

Meanwhile, police are looking for Jayanta Gupta, who had allegedly provided shelter to Liaquat and Arman.

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