Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) On International Women’s Day, women Trinamool Congress leaders and workers staged a protest against the hike in cooking gas prices by sporting black sarees.A procession was taken out on Sunday from Subodh Mallick Square wearing black sarees and black clothes to party supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s sit-in demonstration site at Esplanade.State Ministers Shashi Panja and Chandrima Bhattacharya led the protest march. Protests were also held on the sit-in stage w…
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Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Friday named a three-member delegation that will meet the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Kolkata on Monday.The delegation includes Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from the Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam and West Bengal Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya.A Trinamool Congress insider said the delegation will press the demand that the election schedu…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Tuesday, accused the Trinamool Congress leaders and a West Bengal Minister of floating baseless allegations against the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal. The BJP had also claimed that Trinamool Congress’ decision to nominate former West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP), Rajeev Kumar, for the Rajya Sabha had left many other former bureaucrats close to the ruling party in the state heartbroken.BJP’s IT Cell …
Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) Political reactions intensified in West Bengal on Saturday over the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) issue and recent political developments, with leaders from the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the principal opposition BJP trading sharp remarks while expressing faith in the judiciary.West Bengal Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said the matter relating to SIR has now moved beyond the political arena and is under judicial scrutiny.”The matter has now moved forw…
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) 2018 Asian Games Heptathlon gold medal winner Swapna Barman joined the Trinamool Congress on Friday She is also likely to be a Trinamool candidate from any of the assembly constituencies in her native district of Jalpaiguri in the forthcoming Assembly elections.Barman arrived at the Trinamool Bhavan, the state headquarters of Trinamool, on Friday afternoon and was welcomed into the party by state Education Minister Bratya Basu and Minister of State for Finance (Independent…
Kolkata, Feb 10 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday made an unprecedented announcement to change a proposal of the interim (vote on account) budget presented on the floor of the Assembly on February 5 and advance the date of beginning of the payment under a “unemployment allowance” scheme. She preponed the date for beginning the unemployment allowance payment from August 15 to April.On February 5, while reading out the interim budget proposals, West Bengal Minister…
Kolkata, Feb 9 (IANS) The grim picture of the under-utilization of budgetary allocation for midday meal scheme in West Bengal became evident from a particular annexure document of the interim (vote on account) budget, presented by the West Bengal Minister of State for finance (independent charge), Chandrima Bhattacharya, on the floor of the Assembly, last week. For the ongoing financial year of 2026-27, the total budgetary allocation for midday meals in the state was Rs 1,673.12 crore. However, …
Kolkata, Feb 6 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday questioned the practicality of announcing enhanced payments under various welfare schemes of the state government in the interim (vote on account) budget presented in the House by Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya on Thursday.According to him, the state government can neither announce any enhancement in payments under welfare schemes in an interim budget…
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) The West Bengal government will end the financial year 2026-27 with an accumulated debt figure of around Rs 8.15 lakh crore, as indicated in the documents of the interim (vote on accounts) budget for the fiscal under review, which was presented by the West Bengal Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya on the floor of the Assembly on Thursday.The total accumulated debt by March 31, 2027, has been pegged at Rs 8,15,891.35 crore in the Budget…
Kolkata, Feb 5 (IANS) The payments under ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’, the monthly dole scheme of the West Bengal government, had been hiked by Rs 500 for each recipient in the proposals in the interim (vote-on-account) Budget for the financial year 2026-27 which was placed on the floor of the House by the West Bengal Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya on Thursday.Currently, the women in the general category receive a monthly amount of Rs 1,000, while those in the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe …