Trinamool MLAs barge into CM's chamber

By Our Special Correspondent

KOLKATA, AUG. 20. A group of Trinamool Congress MLAs today barged into the Chief Minister, Mr. Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee's chamber in Writers' Buildings, the State Government headquarters, and later staged a dharna in front of his office demanding a meeting with him to lodge a protest against the Government's failure to check the ``deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal.''

At around 11.30 a.m, 18 Trinamool legislators assembled at Writers' Buildings to seek an audience with the Chief Minister. But, they could not meet Mr. Bhattacharjee as he had left the office to participate in the CPI(M)'s state committee meeting in Alimuddin Street, the party headquarters.

The disappointed MLAs stormed into the Chief Minister's chamber and occupied the chairs in the room for over two hours. Mr. Tamonash Ghosh, a Trinamool MLA, sitting in the chair next to the Chief Minister's, commented that there was a complete breakdown of law and order in Bengal and the Chief Minister should tell the MLAs today about the steps taken by the Government to check it. A helpless police watched the MLAs. Later, the legislators came out of the room and staged a dharna outside it raising slogans. Additional police contingents were soon sent to the Writer's Buildings.

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