Just over six months ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) has found a new line of attack against the BJP-led Centre. Once again raising the issue of the Centre’s “step-motherly treatment” towards West Bengal, the TMC is targeting the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), the Central agency that oversees dams along the Damodar river, for releasing water into the state and creating a “man-made flood”.

Though the corporation has denied the allegations, the TMC is set to gherao the DVC office in Kolkata after Lakshmi Puja on Monday, looking to escalate the issue to put the BJP on backfoot ahead of the Assembly polls.

What is the DVC?

A statutory body set up in 1948, the DVC manages the larger Damodar Valley Project that was the first multipurpose river va

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