In his letter, Chowdhury highlighted the hardships faced by passengers, especially from backward districts like Murshidabad, calling the lack of toilet facilities on these trains an "egregious act of inhumanity" by the railway authorities.
"The intention of the ruling side to pass this bill using its majority is not right. This will be used as a tool to target the opposition. This is a draconian act," Adhir Ranjan said.
This comes after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the Delhi Police of describing Bengali as a "Bangladeshi language", calling it scandalous, anti-national and unconstitutional.
A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and Augustine George Masih expressed disapproval of Gandhi's remarks, saying how does he know the Chinese occupied 2000 square kilometres of land and said that a true Indian wouldn't say such a thing.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has written to the President of India, expressing grave concern over the ongoing harassment, illegal detention, and physical abuse of Bengali-speaking migrant workers in states like Odisha and Maharashtra.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court allowed the Election Commission to continue with its exercise of conducting a Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls in poll-bound Bihar.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday criticised the West Bengal government over the alleged gangrape case of a law student in Kolkata's South Calcutta Law College. Chowdhury stated that the incident demonstrates the deteriorating law and order situation in Bengal, which has
"His predecessor - Pranab Mukherjee, regretted the issue of the imposition of Emergency in public in 2008. Once the Emergency was lifted, Indira Gandhi herself admitted that it was a mistake. On several occasions, Congress repeatedly expressed regrets, but now the ruling party is trying to t
The former Congress MP mentioned that at one point, there was violence in the state. In contrast, the state government is offering "freebies." However, Chowdhury noted that "communal polarisation" remains at the top in West Bengal.
Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday held protest against West Bengal government after a 13-year-old girl died in a bomb explosion at the Trinamool Congresss' victory procession organised after the party swept Kaliganj Assembly bypoll.