Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) Former West Bengal Congress president and former five-time Lok Sabha member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention so that the new Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled state government in West Bengal takes up special development initiatives for his native and minority-dominated Murshidabad district in the state. Chowdhury had been a five-time Lok Sabha member from the Baharampur constituency in Murshidabad dist…
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Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) Police have arrested Trinamool Congress councillor Bhishmadev Karmakar in Berhampore of Murshidabad district in West Bengal in connection with allegations that he obstructed Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s Assembly election campaign.A senior officer of the Murshidabad Police district said on Sunday that the arrest was made based on a complaint lodged during the election campaign period.Bhishmadev Karmakar, councillor of Ward No. 19 in Berhampore municipality, wa…
New Delhi, May 7 (IANS) From “Dum Dum Dawai” (Dum Dum medicine) to “sayesta kora” (to punish) or “chomke deoa” (to surprise or alarm), politics in West Bengal is laced with euphemism that translates into anything from domination to revenge, but it is perhaps for the first time that a party winning the poll verdict is largely facing violence. Across Congress, Left Front, and Trinamool Congress eras, Bengal’s political violence showed continuity more than rupture, with aggression aimed at the vanq…
Murshidabad, May 2 (IANS) Congress candidate from Berhampore Assembly constituency, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, hit out at the Trinamool Congress on Saturday, calling the party as “thieves” who are preaching about “electoral religion”. He accused the ruling party in West Bengal of being involved in rigging and threating voters.Trinamool Congress leaders on Friday had alleged irregularities involving access to a sealed strongroom in Kolkata.Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerje…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday claimed that an “anti-incumbency wave” is prevailing in West Bengal and suggested that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee appears “restless” as polling for the second phase of the Assembly elections continues across the state.Speaking to reporters, Chowdhury said, “There is an anti-incumbency wave, but in this wave, which party will benefit, it’s tough to say now because the votes of the opposition will be divided. However,…
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday described Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s recent criticism of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal as a “late realisation”, reacting to the Congress leader’s remarks on the party’s role in the BJP’s rise in the state.“It has been realised very late,” HM Shah told IANS in Kolkata, responding to Rahul Gandhi’s video message on social media platform X.In the 106-second video clip po…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) After winning the Sagardighi bypoll in West Bengal’s Murshidabad as a Congress candidate three years ago, Bayron Biswas later joined the Trinamool Congress. Ahead of the upcoming state Assembly elections, the outgoing MLA and Trinamool Congress candidate from Sagardighi, Biswas said on Saturday that he had betrayed the Congress and his political guru and senior party leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.Trinamool Congress leader Bayron Biswas, said, “I am selfish. I have betray…
Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) Actor-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mithun Chakraborty on Thursday fell ill while taking part in the election campaign in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district for the upcoming two-phase Assembly polls scheduled to be held later this month. A roadshow was going on in support of BJP candidate Subrata Mitra from Murshidabad’s Baharampur Assembly constituency. Chakraborty, who was present at the roadshow, suddenly fell ill. According to BJP leaders, Chakraborty wa…
Murshidabad, April 6 (IANS) Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday alleged that during his election campaign in West Bengal, some miscreants associated with the Trinamool Congress attempted to stop him. He also claimed that the local police present at the spot failed to take adequate precautionary measures despite prior information about the possibility of such an incident. Speaking to reporters, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, “During the campaign, some miscreants from the Trinamool Co…
Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) West Bengal Police have initiated disciplinary action against IC Berhampore and taken lawful action against four accused Trinamool Congress (TMC) members for unlawful obstruction during the election campaign and for the filing of nomination by Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, an official of Bengal Police, said on Saturday evening. The action was taken after tensions flared in Berhampore, Murshidabad district, on Saturday morning over the Congress’s election campaign.Congress …