Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo and former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal over its eviction drives against street vendors and hawkers. In an X post, Banerjee said she was “angry and deeply pained” at the treatment meted out to hawkers.On International Hawkers Day, Banerjee said: “The BJP government had unleashed atrocities on hawkers shortly after coming to power, demolishing their stalls and fo…
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New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva on Tuesday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi on completing 12 years of public service in the highest office, saying that May 26, 2014, will be remembered as the Foundation Day of service-oriented good governance. The Delhi BJP chief said that the Modi government has set new dimensions of public service by transforming Rajpath into Kartavya Path, Raj Bhavan into Lok Bhavan, and naming the Central government office complex as …
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrested 15 protesters in a special operation conducted in West Bengal’s Malda district in connection with last month’s road blockade incidents and the alleged illegal detention of judicial officers engaged in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise of electoral rolls ahead of the Assembly elections in the state. The NIA had taken over the investigation following directions from the Election Commission of India after the …
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 25 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has sharply questioned the role of I-PAC in the party’s recent electoral setbacks and blamed “outsiders” for causing internal harm to the organisation. In an exclusive interview with IANS, the veteran parliamentarian, who has been associated with the TMC for over 40 years, criticised the party’s growing dependence on external agencies and highlighted how certain individuals who joined after the party came to power h…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The new Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled West Bengal government on Monday took an in-principle decision to implement the state’s crucial flood control-cum-drainage project, popularly known as the “Ghatal Master Plan”, jointly with the Union government, with the expenditure to be shared equally between the Centre and the state.The project had long remained stalled because of the reluctance of the previous Trinamool Congress-ruled and Ma…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI), on Monday, announced the appointment of Neelam Meena, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of the West Bengal cadre of the 1998 batch, as the new Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal. The erstwhile CEO of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, is currently the state’s Chief Secretary.He was appointed to that position soon after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led new state Cabinet under the leadership of the state’s n…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Monday, granted 10 days of additional time to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to reply to notices served regarding the 17 properties owned by him. Abhishek Banerjee is also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The KMC had recently issued the notices. Municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in so…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The process has begun to recall those Kolkata Police personnel who were transferred to punishment postings in districts ten years ago, in 2016, by the previous Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government for reportedly playing an impartial role in the Assembly elections that year by strictly following the Election Commission of India (ECI)’s guidelines and ignoring the verbal directions of the ruling party leaders.An insider from the city police said that as many as 82 ju…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Three weeks after the Assembly election results, former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday once again alleged that the Trinamool Congress did not lose the West Bengal Assembly elections and claimed that the Election Commission helped the BJP secure victory in the state. She also alleged that she was defeated “by force” in the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.Speaking on the day the results of the Falta Assembly by-election were declared, the Trinamool Congress su…