Church authorities write to CM Mamata Banerjee against TMC councillor’s alleged intimidation

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], July 12 (ANI): The Diocese of Calcutta, Church of North India in Kolkata, has written a complaint letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against TMC Councillor Sudip Polley.

“Recently we have undertaken some necessary repairs in College campus i.e. removal of old & dilapidated asbestos sheets of the Girls’ Hostel and replacing them with TATA Tin and repairing of the pathway for the benefit of the student and improvement of the hostel life,” Diocese of Calcutta Church of North India wrote in a letter to the CM Banerjee.

“Unfortunately, before we could complete the work, the local KMC Councilor of Ward No 123, Mr Sudip Polley’s people barged into the Girls’ Nursing College Compound, forcibly stopped the work and threatened the contractor and the laborers with abuses and dire consequences if they dare to continue with the repair work. They even went to the extent of saying that they would not hesitate to bring down the College, Girls’ Hostel and even the adjoining Shanti Nivash (Old-age Home) if their words are not paid heed to by the College and Old-age Home authorities,” they said in the letter.

“They also threatened that they will find minute faults in these Institutions and make it a big issue and bring local people and they would do “vang-chur’ and close the Nursing College, old-age home, HIV Hospice and orphanage. They will neither allow Oxford Mission to do any Social Work,” Diocese of Calcutta Church of North India alleged in the letter.