Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) Veteran CPI(M) leader and senior advocate, Bikas Ranjan Bhattacharya, whose term as a member of the Rajya Sabha ended recently, has declined to accept the pension allotted by the Union Government for former MPs.A communique on this count, sent by Bhattacharya to the Secretary General of the Rajya Sabha, was posted on his official social media handle in the morning.“Sir, this is to inform you that I have decided not to accept the pension available to a retired MP. You p…
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Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) The process of filing nominations for four Trinamool Congress candidates and one Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for election to the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal was completed at the state Assembly on Thursday.Incidentally, the total number of Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal going to polls this time is also five. As per the current numerical strength of the Trinamool Congress and the BJP in the Assembly, the ruling party is comfortably placed to secure four seat…
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday questioned the admissibility of a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the comprehensive guidelines issued by the Central government on the official protocol for the rendition of the country’s national song ‘Vande Mataram’.The division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen directed the petitioner to place before the court logical evidence to establish the admissibility of the PIL.As…
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) Trinamool Congress on Friday night announced the names of its candidates for the vacant Rajya Sabha seats in West Bengal, with lots of surprises in the choice of candidates. The foremost surprise was in the name of Rajeev Kumar, the just retired acting director general of police (DGP) of West Bengal.The second surprise was in the selection of the current West Bengal information technology minister, and singer-cum-actor turned politician, Babul Supriyo, also a former two-ti…
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) Out of the five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal for which elections will be held on March 16, the ruling Trinamool Congress is all set to comfortably bag four, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will have to settle with one, as per the numerical strengths of the two parties in the state Assembly.Of these Rajya Sabha seats, three will fall vacant with the end of the current terms of sitting Trinamool members, namely Subrata Bakshi, Ritabrata Banerjee, and Saket Gokhale…