New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) West Bengal Minister Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on former Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, dismissing her allegations of ‘illegal houses’ in Gujarat and criticising her recent protest.Reacting to Banerjee’s claim that 70 per cent of houses in Gujarat are illegal, Ghosh questioned the basis of her remarks. “Did she go and check it herself whether it is legal or illegal? Their own house is illegal; keep this in mind f…
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Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) The district-level core committees of the BJP in West Bengal will maintain coordination with the new state administration to ensure smooth implementation of various development projects, especially those which are centrally-sponsored.Insiders from the Bengal unit of the BJP said that on May 15, the party’s central observer for the state, Sunil Bansal had directed the completion of setting up of district level core committees at the earliest.“Already the names of the re…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) As an expression of political courtesy, the elected legislators from the opposition Trinamool Congress from eight districts in North Bengal have received invitations to attend the administrative review meeting for the region to be chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari at Siliguri in Darjeeling district on Wednesday.“Trinamool is the only opposition party in the state which has elected legislators from the eight districts of North Bengal. Accordingly, all 14 Trinamoo…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) The new Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led West Bengal government has decided to decentralise the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC), which was marred by controversies over massive irregularities in the recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff in state-run schools during the previous Trinamool Congress regime, in an attempt to ensure greater efficiency and transparency in the recruitment process.As the first step, the old system of operating WBSSC through fi…
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) West Bengal’s new Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday took oath of office and secrecy in a grand ceremony at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground, heading a tiny yet well-represented cabinet in terms of gender, region, and experience. It will be the first Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state. It will also be the first time in 55 years that the government will be headed by someone from outside Kolkata.Suvendu hails from Purba Medinipur district in …
New Delhi, May 4 (IANS) India’s Left parties, once a powerful force in national and regional politics, are now confronting the possibility of being out of power across all states for the first time in more than five decades. To understand the magnitude of this moment, it helps to revisit the past. In 1996, veteran CPI-M leader Jyoti Basu, who had already served as Chief Minister of West Bengal for two decades, came close to becoming Prime Minister as part of the United Front coalition. Although …
New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The Union Cabinet has cleared the proposal to rename Kerala as ‘Keralam’, paving the way for a constitutional amendment in Parliament and triggering a fresh political debate. While the BJP welcomed the decision as recognition of the state’s cultural and linguistic identity, the Congress alleged a “dual policy,” questioning why a similar long-pending demand to rename West Bengal has not received the Centre’s approval.Reacting to the development, BJP National Spoke…
Kolkata, Jan 26 (IANS) A social media post by writer-turned-politician and Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator Manoranjan Bapari, in which he praised the courtesy and magnanimity of workers from both the BJP and the CPI(M), has triggered discussion and surprise in political circles in West Bengal.Bapari, the TMC MLA from Balagarh in Hooghly district, shared the post on Monday morning, citing two personal experiences — one involving BJP workers and the other CPI(M) youth activists — to underlin…
Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 26 (IANS) In a significant departure from its long-held ideological stance, the CPI(M) has decided to accept the Padma Vibhushan awarded posthumously to legendary party leader and former Kerala Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan.The decision marks a rare shift for the party, which has historically rejected state honours, arguing that Communists do not seek or accept awards conferred by the ruling establishment.The Padma awards were announced on Sunday, with V.S. Achuthanan…
Kolkata, Jan 14 (IANS) A record number of 25,000 “unmapped” voters have been summoned for hearings on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal from the single Assembly constituency of Satgachia in South 24 Parganas district, the seat of the former Chief Minister and iconic Indian Marxist, Late Jyoti Basu.In fact, he was the last CPI(M) legislator from that constituency to be elected for five consecutive terms, since 1977, the year the 34-year-long CPI(M)-led Left Fron…