{"id":301068,"date":"2018-08-02T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301068"},"modified":"2019-06-19T06:24:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:24:51","slug":"six-member-trinamool-congress-delegation-detained-at-silchar-airport-in-assam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/six-member-trinamool-congress-delegation-detained-at-silchar-airport-in-assam\/","title":{"rendered":"Six-member Trinamool Congress delegation detained at Silchar airport in Assam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-301076 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/tmc-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tmc-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tmc-276x420.jpg 276w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/tmc.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>A six-member Trinamool Congress delegation was detained by Assam police at Silchar Airport <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1599531254\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span>. The delegation comprises six MPs and one MLA arrived in Assam\u00a0to attend a public convention on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) final draft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">TMC MPs Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna De Nag, Nadimul Haque, Arpita Ghosh, Mamata Thakur and MLA Mohua Moitra, was led by West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim, landed at Silchar airport <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1599531255\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Thursday<\/span><\/span> afternoon.\u00a0They were detained and not allowed to exit the airport.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The delegation was scheduled\u00a0to attend a public convention organised by the local citizens forum in Silchar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to TMC MPs, \u201cThey were beaten up and not allowed to exit the Airport&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP\u2019s Bengal unit president Dilip Ghosh blamed TMC members for the incident. He said, \u201cThey have no business going to Assam\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP national secretary Rahul Sinha said, \u201cIf they try to create unrest in Assam, the management will take action. They should be forced out of the state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Assam Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_1599531256\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Wednesday<\/span><\/span> advised people not to harbour any trepidations about the updation process of the NRC. He also said, \u201cHe will not accept the provocation statements about NRC from the outsiders\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A six-member Trinamool Congress delegation was detained by Assam police at Silchar Airport on Thursday. The delegation comprises six MPs and one MLA arrived in Assam\u00a0to attend a public convention on the National Register of Citizens (NRC) final draft. TMC MPs Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna De Nag, Nadimul Haque, Arpita Ghosh, Mamata [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2459,2030,1801,2014],"tags":[1758,453,2320,2316,38,3971,1486,2530],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301078,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301068\/revisions\/301078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}