Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) The Suvendu Adhikari government’s decision to appoint two ministers separately for the school education and higher education departments in the recent portfolio distribution has been prompted by multiple goals, insiders from the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Thursday.While journalist-turned-politician Jagannath Chattopadhyay has been made the state higher education minister, veteran BJP legislator Deepak Burman is the new school education mi…
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Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) Swapan Dasgupta and Jagannath Chattopadhyay, the two journalist-turned-politicians who were allotted crucial cabinet berths in the West Bengal government on Wednesday, set their immediate agendas soon after the portfolio distribution was announced earlier in the day. For Dasgupta, the target is to increase the state’s own tax revenue without imposing an additional burden on people through an upward revision of the existing tax structure.“There is no logic that the sta…
Kolkata, June 10 (IANS) Suvendu Adhikari-led government announced final portfolio distribution to the newly sworn-in minsters in West Bengal cabinet on Wednesday. Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has retained a number of crucial departments with him including Home and Hills Department, Land & Land Reforms, Refugee Relief & Rehabilitation, Power, Information and Cultural Affairs, Personnel and Administrative Reforms and other Departments not allotted to other Ministers.Journalist-turned-po…
Kolkata, May 4 (IANS) After the first hour of counting of votes for the two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal on Monday, the trend is showing a neck-and-neck battle between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with the BJP slightly ahead of Trinamool Congress.As of 9 a.m., the trend for 134 of 293 Assembly constituencies in the state was available.After the first hour of counting, the tally for the BJP’s initial lead was 73, followed by the Trina…
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) The West Bengal Minister for Panchayat Affairs & Rural Development and the Mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Firhad Hakim, on Thursday, expressed confidence about the Trinamool Congress’ return to power in West Bengal with a thumping majority after the counting on May 4 and stated that if his party returns to power the new Cabinet will take oath on May 6.Dismissing the predictions of the majority of the exit polls that have projected the BJP’s victory…
Birbhum (West Bengal), April 8 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Jagannath Chattopadhyay said on Wednesday that the incumbent Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal will “lose miserably” in the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections scheduled for April 23 and 29.Chattopadhyay is contesting from the Suri Assembly constituency in Birbhum district.Preparations were underway in full swing ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the district on April 9 to campaign for the up…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Tuesday, released its fourth list of party candidates for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal.A total of 13 new names are in the fourth list. Apart from that, the BJP had also changed the party candidate from the Maynaguri Assembly constituency in Jalpaiguri district, and the name of the changed candidate is also mentioned there.After announcing candidates for 13 seats on Tuesday, the names of candidates for six m…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) A delegation of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday urged the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take action against four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and Calcutta High Court senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee for his recent public remark threatening the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar.The three-member BJP delegation, led by the party’s state vice president and journalist-turned politician Jag…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday named 15 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 10 Indian Police Service (IPS) officers from West Bengal as special roll observers (SROs) for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) exercises in other states.A communique from the poll panel reached the West Bengal Secretariat ‘Nabanna’ on Wednesday, asking these 15 IAS and 10 IPS officers. officers to join the two-day training for the SROs on February 5-6.After the …
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Two senior BJP leaders in West Bengal, namely the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhiakri and state vice-president of BJP, Jagannath Chattopadhyay, have challenged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to prove her allegations on their involvement in the coal smuggling case within a reasonable point of time or face defamation.The counsel of Adhikari had already sent a notice of defamation to the Chief Minister, asking the latter to provide all purpo…