A day after an eight-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress was barred from leaving the Silchar airport in Guwahati, six of them on Friday returned to Kolkata. Two others are expected to leave later today, reported news agency PTI. The delegation had arrived in Assam to participate in a convention against Assam’s recently-released draft National Register of Citizenship published last month on July 30.
“We are going back. The police have not allowed us to go out. We requested them several times but they refused. We spent the night in three rooms at the airport,” Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy was quoted as saying by PTI. He has left Assam along with MPs Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna De Nag and Nadimul Haque, and West Bengal ministers Firhad Hakim and MLA Mohua Moitra.