West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday led a team of security personnel involved in a search operation at Raj Bhavan in the wake of allegations by a TMC MP that arms and ammunition were stacked within its premises, an official said.

Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee had on Saturday accused Bose of “sheltering BJP criminals” inside Raj Bhavan and “arming them with bombs and guns”.

“Governor Bose is leading the team of personnel, comprising the Kolkata police officers and central forces, the bomb squad and dog squad to find out whether there are arms and ammunition stacked inside,” the official said.

Bose, who was on a short trip to North Bengal, cut short his tour to spearhead the operation, which started from the ground floor of Raj Bhavan around 2.15 pm, he said.

“There was

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