Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) A day before the second phase of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress, on Tuesday, again approached the Calcutta High Court against the preventive arrests conducted in the state from April 26 morning till April 27 evening as per instructions of the Election Commission of India (ECI).On Monday evening, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, informed that 1,095 preventive arrests were made in the last 24 hours since Sunday evenin…
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Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, ruled that preventive arrests in view of the two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal starting from April 23 can be done in accordance with the provisions of the prevention laws. The Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujay Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen passed this ruling on a petition filed apprehending arrests of around 800 Trinamool Congress leaders and workers following instr…
Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned actress and former Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan in connection with the ration scam, officials of the central probe agency said on Monday.She has been asked to appear at the agency’s CGO Complex office in Salt Lake on Wednesday (April 22) — a day ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections — for questioning in the case. However, the actress and former Basirhat MP has not yet responded to the summon…
New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee launched a scathing critique of the Narendra Modi government on Friday, accusing it of short-changing and deceiving ‘Nari Shakti’ by clubbing women’s reservation with the Delimitation Bill and thereby, stymying one at the expense of other. The Trinamool MP, joining the marathon debate on three contentious Bills on Day 2 in the Parliament, termed it a “total drama” and said that this was nothing else but a political gimmick by the B…
Kolkata, April 5 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Sunday, approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) with a complaint against four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and senior advocate, Kalyan Banerjee, accusing him of issuing “inciteful, derogatory, hateful and provocative statements” which is violation the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).In the complaint letter submitted to the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on …
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) The preliminary hearing at the Calcutta High Court on the public interest litigation (POL) challenging Election Commission of India’s (ECI) decision to transfer several top bureaucrats and police officers in poll-bound West Bengal concluded on Monday, with the ECI’s counsel arguing that the transfers of bureaucrats and police officers varies from state to state depending on the ground-level requirement in the state concerned.The next hearing by the division bench of Ch…
Kolkata, March 20 (IANS) A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been filed in Calcutta High Court challenging the transfers of bureaucrats and police officers of the West Bengal cadre ordered by the Election Commission of India (ECI) since the Model Code of Conduct came into force from Sunday.The PIL was filed at a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court in the run up to the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in the state next month.On behalf of the petitioner, Arka Nag, the PIL was filed by…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday criticised the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the recent reshuffle of senior police officers in West Bengal, alleging that the poll body is acting “very whimsically” and that such functioning had never been witnessed before. His comments come after the ECI transferred more than one and a half dozen IPS officers in the state as part of a fresh administrative reshuffle ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. Th…
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, March 9 (IANS) The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal, to review the ongoing judicial adjudication of the voters’ documents identified as “logical discrepancy” cases as well the preparedness for the crucial upcoming Assembly elections, will begin from 10 a.m. on Monday with meetings with all registered political parties in the state.The full bench of the Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, arrived in Kolkata from New…