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 …
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Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) On the death anniversary of Binapani Devi, the former head of Matua Mahasangha in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched a scathing attack on the Centre and the ECI over “deliberate exclusion” of Matua voters from the electoral rolls.Matuas are people from the Hindu backward class community coming as refugees from neighbouring Bangladesh and settling in different pockets in the state, with their concentration mainly in the two districts of North …