🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane* Shahjahan Sheikh’s rise in Sandeshkhali is a chilling example of how the TMC “syndicate” operates. A migrant from Bangladesh, he began as a laborer but soon built unions, grabbed land, and turned into a local strongman. By 2012 he switched to TMC, gaining political cover and expanding his empire—fish farms, land deals, extortion, and terror over SC/ST families. Locals allege he and his men seized women and property with impunity, while pol