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New Delhi, Jan 9 (IANS) Eight Trinamool Congress MPs staged a protest on Friday outside the office of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in the national capital. The MPs held placards reading, “Bengal rejects Modi-Shah’s dirty politics”, and accused the Centre of targeting the opposition through central agencies. The Trinamool Congress MPs who participated in the dharna were Derek O’Brien, Satabdi Roy, Mahua Moitra, Bapi Haldar, Saket Gokhale, Pratima Mondal, Kirti Azad, and Dr Sharmila Sarka…

New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien has moved the Supreme Court seeking urgent directions against the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging large-scale procedural irregularities, arbitrariness and a “wholly unreasonable” timeline in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal. In an interlocutory application filed before the top court, O’Brien has sought extension of the January 15 deadline for filing claims and objections…