Bengal

XKolkata: West Bengal Congress president Subhankar Sarkar on Tuesday demanded that the devastations caused by the recent incidents of landslide in North Bengal should be declared as a national disaster and both the Centre and the state should work in tandem to address the crisis. Sarkar, who on Tuesday morning led a delegation of party leaders to landslide-hit areas of North Bengal to assess the situation on the ground, also opined that the Centre should declare a special package for the landslide-ravaged areas of North Bengal. "Only then, proper rehabilitation and compensation packaged could be extended to the affected", he said. The state Congress president said an all-party meeting should be called by the West Bengal government in this regard. "The Centre must declare this deva

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