Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed apprehension that several Trinamool Congress workers will be selectively arrested before the two-phase Assembly elections in the state later this month.“They have planned to arrest many. I have got the list. I will fight inch by inch. They have targeted only Trinamool Congress workers. A leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party is contesting from Birbhum district. He earned crores of rupees from coal smuggling….
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Murshidabad, April 20 (IANS) Union Minister J.P. Nadda on Monday asserted that the people of West Bengal have made up their minds to bid farewell to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Speaking to reporters, Nadda said, “The enthusiasm I am witnessing across Bengal clearly indicates that the people have decided to say goodbye to Mamata Didi.”He further claimed that there is a growing inclination in favour of the BJP, alleging that people are distressed over issues such as corruption and harassme…
Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday approached the Calcutta High Court in the Beldanga violence case, challenging the decision of a lower court, which had granted conditional bail to 15 accused people. The NIA has alleged that the accused were granted bail, ignoring the Supreme Court’s directives. The agency claimed in the High Court that the lower court cannot grant bail in this way during the investigation.The 15 accused were given bail after the agency f…
Imphal, April 19 (IANS) Manipur Home Minister Konthoujam Govindas Singh said on Sunday that additional Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) would be deployed in the state after the conclusion of elections in West Bengal and other poll-bound states. Around 88 companies of central forces had earlier been withdrawn from Manipur for Assembly election duties in states, including West Bengal, Assam, and Tamil Nadu, the Home Minister told the media. He added that the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA)…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) A special court of the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday granted “default bail” to 15 of the 35 accused in connection with the violence that erupted at Beldanga in West Bengal’s minority-dominated Murshidabad district earlier this year.The default bail was granted to these 15 accused persons after the investigating agency failed to submit a charge sheet against them within 90 days from the day of their arrest. However, the court had imposed certain co…
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) The Income Tax (I-T) Department officials on Friday started raid and search operations at the residence of Miraj Shah, one of the four proposers for the nomination of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as the Trinamool Congress candidate from the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in Kolkata in the upcoming Assembly elections in the state. In her nomination from Bhabanipur this time, Mamata Banerjee chose four proposers from four linguistic backgrounds, keeping the…
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) A team of Income Tax (I-T) Department officials, heavily escorted by central armed police forces (CAPF) personnel, have started conducting raid and search operations at the residence of a local Trinamool Congress leader Kumar Saha at Kalighat in Kolkata, which is close to the official residence of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Friday. The I-T department action is part of investigation in the same illegal land-grabbing related money laundering case ov…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids on the premises of Punjab Cabinet Minister Sanjeev Arora on Friday morning in Ludhiana, triggering a fresh political controversy.According to officials and sources, ED teams reached the minister’s residence early in the day, while Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel were deployed outside the premises to secure the area. Searches were also carried out at other locations linked to the minister.The action is repo…
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) The officials of the Income Tax Department, heavily escorted by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), were on Friday conducting simultaneous raids and search operations at several locations linked to Trinamool Congress legislator Debasish Kumar.Kumar is also the Member-Mayor-in-Council (MMIC) of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (MMIC). The raids are being conducted at his residence and electoral camp office in South Kolkata in connection with an illegal land-grabbing …
Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing the Trinamool Congress of systematically disseminating defamatory, manipulated and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated video content targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.The BJP alleged that the content of the videos was fabricated, distorted and deliberately structured to create false impressions, with th…