According to the President of the North Dinajpur TMC committee, Kanaiyalal Agarwal, they came to know of Mr Mahanta's anti-party work and that he was expelled from the teachers' union. "We have expelled a total of 22 TMC leaders from the party in Islampur and Dalkhola municipalities for anti-party activities," Mr Agarwal said.
"For a long period, people had appealed to us to stop such animal sacrifice. So this year, in a meeting of our temple committee, we unanimously banned animal sacrifice on the temple premises,"
"Two miscreants reached near the house of Mithun Ghosh at around 10 pm last night and called him. As Mithun came out of his house at their call, they shot him and fled. Relatives and local people took him to the Raigatnj Medical College and Hospital where the doctors pronounced him dead,"
"My grandfather told me that around 400 years ago, a monk from Sindhu Pradesh in Punjab came here. He stayed in our village for years for meditation, and that it was this monk who first started the Durga Puja in our village,"
"In addition to that, water from the Bihar areas nearby also flood the villages, destroying standing crops in the fields," one villager said.
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