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Bhangar protest casts shadow on Bengal Global Business Summit

Around 10,000 people in Bhangar have been protesting against the construction of the power grid

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Avishek Rakshit Bhangar
Three days later West Bengal will try to attract investors at its Global Business Summit, but the protests Bhangar might play spoilsport.

About 40 km from state capital, Kolkata, residents of this village want industry out of their area. In an embarrassment to the state government, supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) have embarked on a major protest to push out a nearly completed Power Grid Corporation of India project.

The protestors are demanding that the state government pulls off the project and returns the land for agricultural use.

“Mamata Banerjee (chief minister of West Bengal) should exemplify what she did in

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