{"id":25474,"date":"2026-08-22T15:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/?p=25474"},"modified":"2026-08-22T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T15:22:01","slug":"khowai-mla-seeks-probe-into-alleged-use-of-government-cement-by-bjp-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/khowai-mla-seeks-probe-into-alleged-use-of-government-cement-by-bjp-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Khowai MLA seeks probe into alleged use of government cement by BJP leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Agartala: Aug 22:<\/strong> Khowai MLA Nirmal Biswas on Saturday urged the administration to verify allegations that government-supplied cement was allegedly used in the construction of Khowai Panchayat Samiti chairman Tinku Bhattacharya&#8217;s house in the Barbil area.<br><br>Addressing a press conference at the CPI(M) district office, MLA Biswas said reports had appeared in various media outlets and on social media alleging that cement from a government warehouse was being used in the construction. He demanded a proper inquiry to establish the facts.<br><br>Biswas also questioned the absence of any public response from Bhattacharjee during the 48 hours following the allegations. He said there had also been no response from the Khowai Block administration, the BJP or the organisation associated with the chairman.<br><br>The MLA alleged that the reported irregularity could not have occurred in a single day and claimed it might have been continuing for some time. However, he called for the allegations to be properly investigated rather than treated as established facts.<br><br>Biswas appealed to the Khowai administration and Block authorities to examine the matter and take appropriate action if any wrongdoing is established. He also urged the media to highlight the issue so that the administration takes notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agartala: Aug 22: Khowai MLA Nirmal Biswas on Saturday urged the administration to verify allegations that government-supplied cement was allegedly used in the construction of Khowai Panchayat Samiti chairman Tinku Bhattacharya&#8217;s house in the Barbil area. Addressing a press conference at the CPI(M) district office, MLA Biswas said reports had appeared in various media outlets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":25473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[301,23,735,73],"tags":[6775,6776],"ppma_author":[2519],"class_list":["post-25474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-events","category-politics","category-tripura","tag-khowai-mla-nirmal-biswas","tag-khowai-panchayat-samiti-chairman-tinku-bhattacharya"],"authors":[{"term_id":2519,"user_id":194,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amit-debbarma","display_name":"A Kalai","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/5ddbf850a65ce104c59e4db2c4f613874a56a842e9441a8547a0210e0c53e78b?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Faguli.in%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F07%2FPHOTO-2023-09-14-08-30-32-3.jpg&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25475,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474\/revisions\/25475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25474"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aguli.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=25474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}