TMC neta in net after dramatic escape bid in Bihar

Howrah: A Trinamool neta from Howrah climbed up a coconut tree and then jumped into a pond to escape the police in Madhubani, Bihar. According to sources in the detective department of Howrah City Police and Howrah Rural Police, Kailash Misra, a very close associate of Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, former councillor of Howrah Municipal Corporation and the 2026 Trinamool candidate for the Bally Assembly constituency in Howrah, fled this year right after the election results were declared, first to the house of a Trinamool leader in Kolkata, and then to his ancestral home in Madhubani, Bihar.

A senior officer of Howrah City Police said, “Kailash, a resident of Agrasen Street in Liluah, has been arrested on multiple charges, including extortion, beating up and evicting poor people for promoting, running a building materials syndicate, hurling bombs, physically assaulting police, and filling up ponds for promoting.” According to cops, on Saturday afternoon, when a team of Howrah City Police along with Bihar Police raided Kailash’s house in Madhubani, Kailash, on seeing the police, climbed up a coconut tree beside a pond. Later, when the police pointed guns at him and asked him to come down, he jumped into the pond. The police also jumped into the pond and caught him.

According to local sources, Kailash earlier lived in north Kolkata, where he did politics under the leadership of former Trinamool leader Sonali Guha. After creating trouble somewhere in Kolkata, through Sonali Guha’s source, he came to Liluah with the help of the then Trinamool district president Arup Roy in Howrah. Later, during the Trinamool era, he became a “strongman”. Howrah District Trinamool chairman, MLA and former minister Arup Roy said, “Kailash did not listen to me; instead, he used to order me around. He is a very close follower of Abhishek himself. Abhishek used to keep watch on everyone in the Howrah party through him. The law will now do whatever it has to.”