New Delhi, July 4 (IANS) Trinamool leader Chandrima Bhattacharya’s allegations on Saturday of being kept in the dark on the West Bengal Budget till barely hours before her presentation in the Assembly as Finance Minister, and Dinesh Trivedi’s 2012 exit from the Railways after a controversial fare hike, are two episodes that reflect a pattern. Soon after relinquishing her party posts, Bhattacharya claimed that the state Budget was never discussed with her or revealed to her until just hours befor…
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Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, while speaking at the inauguration of a two-day orientation programme for the newly-elected legislators in the West Bengal Assembly at Kolkata on Friday, assured bigger democratic space for the opposition legislators, which, according to him, was absent during the previous Trinamool Congress regime in the state. “First, during the 34-year Left Front regime from 1977 to 2011, everything operated from the party office of the ruling dispensa…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress faction, which continues its allegiance to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, has decided to approach the Calcutta High Court challenging the Kolkata Police’s decision to impose prohibitory orders in central Kolkata where the party organises Martyrs’ Day on July 21 every year.On Tuesday, the Kolkata Police informed both factions that this year’s Martyrs’ Day would not be allowed to be organised …
Kolkata, June 30 (IANS) The annual ‘Martyrs’ Day’ rally of Trinamool Congress will not be allowed this time at the old and traditional venue in front of CESC House at the busy Esplanade crossing in central Kolkata, the police on Tuesday informed both factions of the party.Both factions — one led by former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee and the other led by the expelled party legislator, Ritabrata Banerjee — have sought police permission to conduc…
Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) Two crucial Bills relating to reservation in West Bengal government jobs for Other Backward Classes (OBCs) were passed by voice vote in the Assembly on Monday, paving the way for the Bharatiya Janata Party-led government to scrap the OBC list prepared during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) regime.The two Bills passed by the House are “The West Bengal Backward Classes (Other than SC and ST) Reservation of Vacancies in Services and Posts (Amendme…
Kolkata, June 28 (IANS) West Bengal Rural Development and Panchayat Affairs Minister Dilip Ghosh said on Sunday that the pavements and footpaths in the state capital would be freed from illegal hawkers’ stalls, much like the action being carried out at various railway stations in the state.“Be it railway stations or the pavements and footpaths in Kolkata — these are not places for running a business. This should clearly be understood by those who are running businesses after illegally encroac…
Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) West Bengal unit of Congress, this year, will organise a protest on July 21 to counter Trinamool Congress’s annual Martyrs’ Day rally, which the latter holds every year to condemn the killing of 13 youth Congress workers on this date in 1993 during the erstwhile CPI(M)-led Left Front regime with nonagenarian Indian Marxist Late Jyoti Basu as the Chief Minister. Observing the Martyrs’ Day on July 21 was initially a Congress affair till Mamata Banerjee formed the Trin…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) As Swapan Dasgupta, the state Finance Minister of the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled government in West Bengal since Independence, on Monday presented the full Budget for the financial year 2026-27, the Budget estimates for the fiscal under review projected improvements in both the revenue deficit and fiscal deficit, but indicated a marginal deterioration in the state’s accumulated debt figure.As per the Budget estimates for 2026-27, the revenue deficit is proje…
Kolkata, June 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader and Pradhan of Shiuli Gram Panchayat, Arun Kumar Ghosh and seven other members have resigned from their posts, reducing the strength of the party in this gram panchayat in the Barrackpore area of North 24 Parganas district. They went to the BDO office of Barrackpore Block II and submitted their resignations. The outgoing Pradhan claimed that this decision was taken out of respect for the people’s verdict in the recently concluded state Assembly e…
Kolkata, June 20 (IANS) The West Bengal Finance Department has issued a notification making advance payments of all state excise-related duties mandatory for liquor manufacturers, breweries and bottling plants. Technically, this means that, henceforth, all such units will have to pay the relevant state excise duties in full before any product is removed from the manufacturing company, brewery, or bottling plant concerned.The crucial notification was issued just ahead of the presentation of the f…