Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday, alleged that the Trinamool Congress and its political consultancy firm I-PAC are jointly responsible for harassing people who have been summoned by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to appear for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearings. A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) delegation led by LoP Adhikari, also met Governor C.V. Ananda Bose at the Lok Bhaban in Kolkata and apprised him o…
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Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, will be accompanying West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the latter’s scheduled meeting with the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s headquarters in New Delhi on Monday afternoon.The meeting time has been scheduled for 4 p.m. The Chief Minister has been in New Delhi since Sunday afternoon, preparing the groun…
Kolkata, Jan 29 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday again rejected the plea from the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) West Bengal unit to hold protest demonstrations in front of the state Secretariat ‘Nabanna’ against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move hindering the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s raids against the Indian Action Political Action Committee (I-PAC).A division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen declined the party’s plea challenging the s…
Kolkata, Jan 21 (IANS) Enforcement Directorate (ED) Director Rahul Navin will visit West Bengal again. According to ED sources, he will arrive in Kolkata on Thursday for a three-day visit. However, the reason for the ED Director’s visit has not been clarified by the agency. Many believe that this visit is highly significant in the backdrop of the recent ED raids at the house of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) director Pratik Jain and at the Kolkata office of I-PAC, a political consul…
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) The central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has directed the party’s West Bengal unit to launch a massive campaign across the state on the developments in the Supreme Court on January 15, when the apex court stayed the FIRs registered by the West Bengal Police against Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in connection with the recent searches at the premises of political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its co-founder Pratik Jain in Kolkata.Sayi…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected the plea by the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seeking permission to hold a protest demonstration in front of the state secretariat Nabanna at Mandirtala in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district, over Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move to hinder the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) simultaneous raids on the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC).While turning down the plea…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the FIRs registered by the West Bengal Police against Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in connection with the recent searches at the premises of political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its co-founder, Pratik Jain, in Kolkata. Observing that the petitions raise serious questions of alleged interference by state agencies in a central investigation, a Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul Pancholi issued n…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has become more active in the investigation of the coal smuggling case. According to sources, several businessmen have been summoned again to the ED office for questioning as part of the investigation. Sources said on Tuesday that these businessmen have already been interrogated, and they will have to appear before the investigators again this week.The ED has recently become more proactive in the investigation of the coal smuggling case ori…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) BJP’s West Bengal unit on Tuesday filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to protest in front of the state secretariat, Nabanna, against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move hindering ED’s simultaneous raids against I-PAC.The single-judge bench of Justice Shampa Dutta Paul admitted the petition.On January 8, while simultaneous raids and search operations were being conducted at the Indian Political Action Committee’s office and t…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Monday directed the party’s Information Technology cell — termed as “Digital Yoddhas” or “Digital Warriors” — to launch a massive digital campaign explaining why the Trinamool Congress is opposing the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raid and search operations at the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) office and at the residence of I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain last week.He issued th…