Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday once again pointed his finger at party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee for the party’s downfall in Bengal politics. He also put the party’s former political consultant agency in the same row and criticised it, and did not spare Abhishek’s aides either.Kalyan also said that those who once benefited the most from Abhishek and the political consultant agency are now speaking against it. He clarified that there are pro-rebe…
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Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) demanded that the by-election for the two Assembly constituencies and one Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal be conducted at the earliest and simultaneously. The Lok Sabha constituency where the bypoll is pending is at Basirhat in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. In the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress’s Haji Nurul Islam was elected from Basirhat by a margin of over 3.70 lakh votes.However…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed all parties, including West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, to file affidavits responding to the election petition filed by Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, challenging the results of the Bhabanipur assembly constituency in South Kolkata. At Bhabanipur, Mamata Banerjee, contesting as the Trinamool candidate, was defeated by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Suvendu Adhikari by a margin o…
Kolkata, June 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government on Saturday decided to take action in the wake of the violence during the anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protests in West Bengal. In 2019, there were allegations of vandalism and arson at various places in the state during the anti-CAA protests.Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has directed the West Bengal Director General Siddh Nath Gupta to investigate the allegations.In December 2019, the Citizenship Amendment Bill was pas…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The portfolio distribution of the new West Bengal cabinet under the leadership of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will be announced later on Wednesday after a meeting of the expanded cabinet.The meeting of the new cabinet will take place at the state secretariat of Nabanna, where the responsibilities of the ministers will be distributed. Some crucial administrative decisions are also likely to be taken at the meeting.On June 1, a total of 35 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) le…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Monday, granted 10 days of additional time to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to reply to notices served regarding the 17 properties owned by him. Abhishek Banerjee is also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The KMC had recently issued the notices. Municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in so…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday gave a patient hearing to an elderly couple who had been cheated by the recently arrested land mafia-promoters Biswajit Poddar a.k.a Sona Papu and Joy Kamdar, and assured them of his personal intervention to resolve the matter.The Chief Minister interacted with people and listened to their grievances at his pre-announced ‘Janatar Darbare (People’s Court)’ session.Probir Mukhopadhyay and his wife, both senior citizens …
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Three weeks after the Assembly election results, former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday once again alleged that the Trinamool Congress did not lose the West Bengal Assembly elections and claimed that the Election Commission helped the BJP secure victory in the state. She also alleged that she was defeated “by force” in the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.Speaking on the day the results of the Falta Assembly by-election were declared, the Trinamool Congress su…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee has sought time from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) to reply to the notice regarding the valuation of his property and the demolition of an illegal part of his house at Bhabanipur.The KMC had recently issued the notice. The municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in south Kolkata’s Bhabanipur area.On Sunday, it was learnt that the Trinamool General Secretary has writt…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) The sleuths of Kolkata Police, on Saturday, said that they have arrested a youth for sending a fake email to the police warning of the murder of the new and ninth West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari. The arrested youth had been identified as Hasnem Iqbal. According to a senior officer of the Kolkata Police, an email landed at Bhabanipur Police Station in South Kolkata, which comes under the jurisdiction of the Chief Minister’s current Assembly constituency of Bh…