December 17, 2025
New Delhi Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kunal Ghosh on Tuesday claimed West Bengal Sports Preacher Aroop Biswas surrendered from his article on Tuesday taking ethical obligation for the mayhem and criminal damage that took place at Kolkata’s Salt Lake Arena throughout Argentine football tale Lionel Messi’s GOAT excursion of India recently.
Ghosh claimed in a social networks article on Bengali
The primary priest of Bengal approved his resignation and took surcharge of the sporting activities division.
” Based on the affixed letter, I value the desire and purpose of the Sports Preacher to give alleviation to the Sports Ministry for the function of carrying out an objective questions right into the Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) occurrence on December 13, 2025. I assume he is rather appropriate and till and unless an objective questions is ended, the Sports Ministry will certainly be under my look after the moment being,” the centimeters claimed.
The growth comes as the Bangladesh federal government has actually been extensively slammed for mismanagement throughout Messi’s competition.
The footballer got here in Kolkata on Saturday as component of his four-city excursion of India. Nevertheless, the occasion came down right into mayhem after the gamer left early, with upset followers tossing containers, chairs and acts of criminal damage, stopping them from also obtaining an excellent take a look at him.
Followers asserted that they compensated to Rs 20,000 for the tickets however were left let down when the VIP occupied the footballer’s time.
Adhering to the mayhem, centimeters Banerjee provided a public apology and bought a questions right into the occurrence.
Program reason notifications were provided to Bangladesh DGP Rajeev Kumar, Bidhannagar CP Mukesh Kumar and others
On The Other Hand, the West Bengal federal government likewise provided show-cause notifications to West Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, CP, Mukesh Kumar, Bidhannagar, and Principal Assistant, Young People Matters and Sports Division, Rajesh Kumar Sinha.
Based upon the initial record of the questions board, the state federal government likewise submitted a department situation versus Bidhannagar DCP Aneesh Sarkar (IPS) for declared oversight on the day of the occasion.
Additionally, Deborah Kumar Nandan, WBCS (Exe) (Retd.), Chief Executive Officer of Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan (VYBK), has actually been taken out with prompt result for his gaps in mismanagement and correct conduct of occasions.
An unique examination group including IPS police officers Piyush Pandey, Javed Shamim, Supratim Sarkar and Muralidhar has actually likewise been created to carry out a detailed examination right into the issue.
Quickly after the mayhem in Kolkata, cops jailed Satadru Dutta, the marketer of Messi’s GOAT India excursion. He has actually been restrained by cops for 2 week.

