Kolkata, July 5 (TIWN) A two-member team of the All India Trinamool Congress including the party's Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Lok Sabha MP Mohua Moitra met President Ram Nath Kovind on Monday and sought the removal of the Solicitor General of India Tushar Mehta. They alleged that the senior lawyer met Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator Suvendu Adhikari in violation of established norms.

In their letter to Prime Minister Modi, party MPs Derek O’Brien, Mr. Ray and Ms. Moitra had alleged that the meeting between Mr. Mehta and Mr. Adhikari was in violation of established norms and “reeks of impropriety”.  Mr. Adhikari, once a Trinamool Congress heavyweight, is an accused in 2016 Narada tapes case, and Mr. Mehta is representing the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Supreme Court and the Calcutta High Court in the agency’s probe against senior TMC leaders in the case.