Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) The leaders of all the political parties in West Bengal on Saturday condemned the heckling and physical assault of Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, at Sonarpur in South 24 Paragans district earlier in the day. However, while describing the incident as unfortunate, the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the CPI-M reminded of the arrogant and provocative public speeches by Abhishek Banerjee at a number of …
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Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) West Bengal BJP president and Rajya Sabha member Samik Bhattacharya on Saturday claimed in a social media post that the Tata Group would return to the state with fresh investment proposals.Referring to the exit of the Tata Motors’ Nano project from Singur in Hooghly district in October 2008, Bhattacharya said the group had been forced to leave amid the anti-land acquisition movement led by the Trinamool Congress under then Opposition leader Mamata Banerjee, who later bec…
Kolkata, May 21 (IANS) Former Trinamool Congress MLA, Aditi Munshi and her husband Debraj Chakraborty on Thursday approached the Calcutta High Court, seeking anticipatory bail on the apprehension that they may be arrested on the charge of disproportionate assets.This is the fear expressed by Aditi Munshi, a former MLA from Rajarhat-Gopalpur and her husband Debraj Chakraborty who is Trinamool councillor in the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation. He was recently detained by police for questioning i…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken action against four party leaders allegedly involved in the attack on a health officer at a health centre in Purulia district. Terming the incident as “shameful”, the accused leaders have been asked to explain the cause for their alleged anti-party activities, BJP leaders said on Wednesday.The four BJP leaders have also been directed to refrain from party work for the time being.On May 12, BJP leaders were …
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Samik Bhattacharya said on Thursday that the state government’s decision to make the singing of ‘Vande Mataram’ compulsory in state-run schools is the party’s tribute to its writer Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.Speaking to IANS, Bhattacharya said: “Bringing ‘Vande Mataram’ into schools is part of our agenda, and we will continue to do this.””It is BJP’s tribute to Bankim Chandra Chatterjee on 150 years of the national song,” h…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) Samik Bhattacharya, the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal and a member of the Rajya Sabha, has suggested that the new regime in the state may alter the land policy to encourage investments.“During the last 15 years of the Trinamool Congress regime in the state, there has not been even a single new investment. On the contrary, the industrialists and businessmen from West Bengal chose to park their investments in other states. The previous …
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) In his first meeting with departmental secretaries of the West Bengal government, the new Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday directed the top bureaucrats in the state to focus strictly on eliminating wasteful expenditure to ease pressure on the cash-strapped exchequer inherited by the new government.He also instructed departmental secretaries not to use the tagline “inspired by the Chief Minister” in any state government hoarding, advertisement or plaque, whic…
Kolkata, May 11(IANS) The new government led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari will be a “West Bengal government” in the true sense and not a “Bharatiya Janata Party government”, BJP’s West Bengal president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said here on Monday.Speaking to media persons while the Chief Minister stood beside him, Bhattacharya said the state government would function independently, with coordination with the party limited to ensuring the smooth implementation of comm…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The first meeting of the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led West Bengal cabinet, led by the ninth Chief Minister of the state, Suvendu Adhikari, will be held at the current state secretariat at Nabanna in Mandirtala, Howrah district, on Monday.Although the BJP had decided that its ministers would operate from the original state secretariat, the Writers’ Buildings, in central Kolkata, where renovations are taking longer, the new cabinet, including the Chief Minister, …
Kolkata, May 10 (IANS) The husband of a Trinamool Congress panchayat member was found murdered in West Bengal’s Hooghly district on Sunday, police said. The Trinamool Congress alleged that workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) beat him to death, a charge the saffron party has denied.According to police, the body of the Trinamool leader was recovered from behind the Trinamool party office on Sunday morning. He had gone missing on Saturday. Police said there are multiple injury marks on th…