Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) After Union Home Minister Amit Shah officially announced Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Suvendu Adhikari as the next Chief Minister of West Bengal, Adhikari said that the decision reflects the “democracy” within the party whose elected representatives have chosen the leader.Speaking to reporters, Adhikari expressed his gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Nitin Nabin and Home Minister Shah for the opportunity.”This is the democracy in BJP where elec…
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Panihati (West Bengal), May 8 (IANS) Ratna Debnath, BJP MLA-elect and mother of the trainee doctor who was sexually assaulted and murdered at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, on Friday alleged on Friday that certain activists from the Trinamool Congress are posing as BJP supporters and indulging in post-poll violence in West Bengal. She further asserted that no Trinamool activist will be allowed to be a part of the BJP.Speaking to IANS, Debnath, who won from the Panihati Assembly constituenc…
Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) Actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty cast his vote during the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections on Wednesday and expressed confidence that voter turnout could reach 90 per cent. Speaking to reporters, he said, “From what I am seeing, I feel that turnout may go up to 90 per cent today. If that happens, one can understand what it indicates.”Several other BJP candidates, including Ratna Debnath, cast their votes during the ongoing phase of the West B…
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) Ratna Debnath, mother of the RG Kar rape and murder victim and BJP candidate from Panihati Assembly constituency, said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated her for “fighting with great courage”.Earlier in the day, PM Modi addressed a huge public meeting in Panihati in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas ahead of the second phase of the Assembly election.Speaking to IANS, she said, “PM Modi told me that I am fighting with great courage. When I told him that…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Panihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, otherwise never a high-profile seat in the state’s electoral history, has this time come into sharp focus with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fielding Ratna Debnath, the mother of the junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August 2024, as its candidate from the constituency.Members of the Debnath …
New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Thursday defended the party’s decision to field the mother of the junior doctor of West Bengal’s R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August 2024, from the Panihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district.The victim’s mother, Ratna Debnath, featured in the party’s third list of 19 candidates, announced on Wednesday, for the forthcoming two-pha…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced its third list of 19 candidates for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, with the most prominent name being Ratna Debnath, fielded from the Panihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district.Debnath is the mother of the junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August 2024.She is …