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BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, posting screenshots of international reports, said the episode was an \u201cinternational embarrassment\u201d.<\/h2>\n
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Smoke erupts after chairs were set on fire amid chaos during an event of Argentine footballer Lionel Messi as part of his ‘G.O.A.T. India Tour 2025’, at Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK), in Kolkata. (Image: PTI)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The BJP on Sunday intensified its attack on the Mamata Banerjee administration over the chaos at Kolkata\u2019s Salt Lake Stadium during an event featuring football legend Lionel Messi, sharing foreign media coverage and alleging that the incident had turned the city into a \u201cglobal laughingstock.”<\/p>\n

Bengal\u2019s leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, posting screenshots of international reports, said the episode was an \u201cinternational embarrassment” and accused the state government of gross mismanagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cMamata Banerjee\u2019s administration\u2019s epic failure at the Salt Lake Stadium has turned Kolkata into a \u2018global laughingstock\u2019. She and her inefficient Ministers, who turned the public event into an exclusive private function with access to only a select few, who swamped the Star and managed to hide him from the public view, but were made to pay huge amounts to fund the event, triggered off the chaos,” Adhikari wrote.<\/p>\n

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International Embarrassment !!!Mamata Banerjee\u2019s Administration\u2019s epic failure at the Salt Lake Stadium has turned Kolkata into a \u2018global laughingstock\u2019. She and her inefficient Ministers, who turned the public event into an exclusive private function with access to only a\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/jP9Q1QTHHI<\/a><\/p>\n

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Calling it a humiliation \u201con the world stage,” he added, \u201cApologies and tactfully shifting all the blame on a \u2018scapegoat\u2019 conveniently won\u2019t wash away the gross incompetence of the TMC Govt.”<\/p>\n

Adhikari has also written to Governor CV Ananda Bose seeking an independent judicial inquiry into what he called \u201cadministrative incompetence” and \u201cpublic humiliation of citizens” at the Yuva Bharati Krirangan.<\/p>\n

In his letter, he alleged that a publicly funded stadium had been converted into a \u201cprivate durbar” for political elites, leaving ticket-holding spectators denied basic amenities and obstructed by VIP enclosures. \u201cWhat unfolded was not merely an episode of administrative incompetence, it was a public humiliation of citizens, a grotesque exhibition of unrestrained political privilege, and a direct assault on the rule of law,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

The event descended into chaos on Saturday after frustrated spectators vandalised property, alleging they could not see Messi due to mismanagement and VIP obstruction. Police later arrested event organiser Satadru Datta, while Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced a high-level probe committee to investigate the episode.<\/p>\n

Adhikari, however, rejected the neutrality of the panel, arguing it lacked independence since it is headed by Justice (Retd) Asim Ray, who holds a statutory post under the state government, and includes senior bureaucrats whose actions are under scrutiny.<\/p>\n

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