Chowdhury urged the minister to treat the ongoing erosion as a national disaster and release funds for urgent mitigation efforts. He also called on the minister to seek the support of the central government in this regard.
Riverbank erosion is widespread throughout the course of the Ganges in West Bengal. Very large chunk of fertile land has been completely wiped out and thousands of people have been displaced in Shamsher Ganj.
Earlier on Wednesday, the Enforcement Directorate questioned his daughter Sukanya Mondal for nearly nine hours in connection with the cattle smuggling scam.
Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday conducted searches at nearly one dozen locations in West Bengal and Jharkhand in a money laundering case against those illegally occupying Indian Army lands, sources said.
The incident took place in Setai area of Cooch Behar on Thursday afternoon when a mob is seen carrying sticks while Pramanik's convoy was passing through the area.
Terming Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) supremo MK Stalin as her "brother", West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the two leaders did not discuss politics during their meeting in Chennai.
CBI had registered a case in April 2022 on the orders High Court at Calcutta in connection with killings that happened in a village in Birbhum district where ten people were killed.
Mondal reached the Enforcement Directorate headquarters here around 10 am following summons of the federal agency to face questioning and left around 7 pm.