The New Indian Express ·
Padma Shri awardee singer Purna Das seeks Bengal CM's intervention over alleged land grab involving TMC leader
KOLKATA: Purna Das Baul, the 93-year-old internationally acclaimed Baul singer and Padma Shree awardee, on Wednesday met West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari at the latter’s outreach programme, Janata Darbar, at Salt Lake, seeking his intervention to reclaim his farmland in Birbhum district, which has allegedly been forcibly occupied by a former Trinamool Congress strongman and his associates.
Besides alleging that his farmland in Ilambazar in the district was forcibly occupied, the nonagenarian Baul singer also lodged a complaint with the chief minister on Wednesday alleging that his residence in Kolkata had been demolished.
Purna Das Baul, accompanied by his son Dibyendu Das and daughter-in-law Aditi Das, was among more than 100 people who attended the ‘Janata Darbar’ organised by Suvendu at the Bengal BJP office and submitted grievances seeking redressal.
