State government takes away TMC ex-MLA's security

The state government withdrew the security for Dr Santanu Sen, former Rajya Sabha MP, hardly four days after Dr Sudipto Roy, Trinamul Congress MLA and the president of the West Bengal Medical Council (WBMC), wrote to Narayan Swaroop Nigam, principal secretary in charge of health department, requesting that the government nominate a new member to the WBMC to replace Dr Sen.

Dr Sen used to get security with deployment of two armed police constables, round-the-clock, since he was made MP in 2018. The party didn't nominate him again in the RS after his term ended during April this year. But the government had been providing him the security though he was not the MP.

He would no more get the security cover arranged by the state government with effect from Thursday. He refused to comment when The Statesman contacted him on Tuesday.