Kolkata, Sept. 26 -- West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday said that he had feared arrest during his long-drawn political battle against the previous Trinamool Congress (TMC) government and was preparing to send his elderly parents to Odisha in case he was jailed.
Chief minister Adhikari, whose father is 90 and mother is over 80, said he had been prepared to face imprisonment and had made arrangements for his parents amid what he described as an atmosphere of fear in West Bengal under the previous regime.
"My father is 90 years old. My mother is more than 80. I too had made my plans. I was prepared to fight and go to jail. If something happened, then so be it. I was even preparing to send both of my parents to Odisha," A...