Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) Countering Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement over the death of 25 people in Anandapur warehouses fire, Trinamool Congress’s all-India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday said that the Centre should take responsibility for the death of 140 people in West Bengal due to Special Intensive Revision (SIR) fear. Earlier in the day, Shah targeted Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the deaths in Anandapur and claimed that the state government was trying to shie…
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New Delhi, Jan 24 (IANS) Days ahead of Bangladesh’s February 12 general elections, an intelligence input has warned the government of the potential use of Rohingyas in criminal and political activities, ruling out the possibility of implementing an Election Commission proposal to seal the refugee camps during the polls, according to a media report.The agency believes it would not be feasible to implement the Bangladesh poll body’s recommendation to isolate the camps during the poll process, ci…
Jaipur, Jan 17 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Hawa Mahal Swami Balmukundacharya Maharaj has dismissed the claims made by Congress leaders regarding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as baseless and misleading.He asserted that the SIR is being conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI), a constitutional body, with complete fairness and transparency to ensure clean and accurate voter lists.Swami Balmukundacharya Maharaj said the objective of the SIR pro…
Bengaluru, Jan 15 (IANS) The Karnataka unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, demanding an urgent National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe into the alleged illegal settlements at Kogilu in Bengaluru and potential threats to national security.Chalavadi Narayanaswamy, the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, has written a letter to HM Amit Shah in this regard on Thursday.It may be noted that the Congress-led government, after undert…
Kolkata, Jan 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday made it clear that her party will continue a parallel legal and on-the-street political battle over the controversy surrounding the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) simultaneous raid and search operations on January 8 at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) in Salt Lake, on the northern outskirts of Kolkata, and at the residence of I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain at Loudon …
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) Explaining the logic behind not accepting domicile certificates issued by the West Bengal government as identity documents, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said papers issued for specific purposes cannot be used for establishing voting rights.Sources in the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that one of the purposes of the domicile certificates is to give an additional residency proof in a state for those citizens of the state who are serv…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify the exact number of illegal Bangladeshi or Rohingya infiltrators in the list of 58.20 lakh voters whose names have been deleted from the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, which was published on December 16 last year.“The BJP is unable to make any electoral progress in West Bengal. That is why they are harassing the p…
Mumbai, Jan 7 (IANS) Amid ongoing BMC polls, Mumbai BJP president Ameet Satam on Wednesday raised concerns over a particular community’s “silent demographic and cultural invasion” in the city, saying that it is a planned modus operandi involving illegal encroachments, infiltration, and vote-bank politics.He further targeted Shiv Sena-UBT chief Uddhav Thackeray, questioning how many Bangladeshis and Rohingya infiltrators were settled in Mumbai by a minister who served in Uddhav’s cabinet.”Demogra…
Kolkata, Jan 5 (IANS) The Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday said the Election Commission of India (ECI) had declined the domicile certificates issued by the West Bengal government as valid identity proofs for establishing voting rights in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state for a justifiable reason.On Sunday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had written a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar, demanding …