Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The ninth Chief Minister of West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, will chair an administrative review meeting with bureaucrats, senior police officers and elected public representatives from three districts of Kolkata, Howrah and South 24 Parganas at the state secretariat Nabanna later on Wednesday, which will be attended by some elected Trinamool Congress legislators from these districts.

As of now, the attendance of two expelled Trinamool Congress MLAs, namely Ritabrata Banerjee from Uluberia (Purba) Assembly constituency in Howrah district and Sandipan Saha from Entally constituency in North Kolkata, was confirmed by Ritabrata Banerjee.

He also said that some other elected Trinamool Congress legislators from these three districts, especially from Howrah, have also confirmed their presence at the administrative review meeting to be conducted later in the day.

In the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly polls, of the 31 Assembly constituencies in South 24 Parganas, Trinamool Congress bagged victories in 21 constituencies, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s tally standing at 9 and All India Secular Front (AISF) at one.

At the time the report was filed, it was uncertain whether the lone AISF legislator from the district as well as from the entire state, Nawsad Siddique from Bhangar Assembly constituency will be attending the administrative review meeting or not.

Of the 11 Assembly constituencies in Kolkata, BJP’s tally stood at six and Trinamool Congress at five.

Both Ritabrata and Sandipan were suspended on Monday afternoon from the Trinamool Congress and the announcement on this count was made within minutes after the Chief Minister informed media persons that a probe by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of West Bengal Police in the case of mismatches in signatures of Trinamool Congress legislators in a crucial Assembly-related document was started after these two expelled legislators informed the office of the Speaker, Rathindra Bose about these mismatches.

Since then both Ritabrata and Sandipan have launched scathing attacks against the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and the Trinamool Congress General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee.

Both held Abhishek Banerjee responsible for the landslide defeat of Trinamool Congress because of his running the party in a corporate-management style depending totally on the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC).

–IANS

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