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Tripura insurgency : Minister quits over rebel nexus

	April 21, 2008

The newly appointed Tripura food and civil supplies minister Shahid Chowdhury resigned on April 17 after police blew the lid off his nexus with a Bangladeshi criminal and suspected Harkat-ul-jihad-Islami (Huji) activist. Chowdhury, the MLA from Boxanagar and a first time minister, landed in a soup after West Bengal CID arrested Mafizur Rahaman alias Mamun Mia alias Suman Mazumder from his home in Agartala on March 28. Mamun was wanted in a bomb blast case in Shibpur in Calcutta in January. ...