Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Samik Bhattacharya on Thursday accused the Trinamool Congress-led state government in West Bengal of “misdeed” and “misrule” during its 15 years of ruling the state.His reaction comes in support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who said that every leader of Trinamool Congress, involved in corruption and looting of common people in West Bengal, will be identified and accounted for after May 4, the day on which the results …
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Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday night decided to hand over the probe into the harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in minority-dominated Malda district to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), and instead entrusted the investigation to the National Investigation Agency (NIA).Earlier, on Thursday evening, information from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, had indicated that the CBI would probe t…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) Acting on the directions of the Supreme Court, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to the National Investigation Agency (NIA) requesting it to conduct an inquiry into the recent incident in West Bengal’s Malda district where judicial officers deputed for electoral roll revision work were allegedly gheraoed and attacked.In a communication addressed to the Director General of the NIA, the poll panel referred to the apex court’s order passed in a suo mot…
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday evening handed over the probe into the harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in minority-dominated Malda district to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).Earlier in the day, a division bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Justice Surya Kant, strongly denounced the incident, describing it as evidence of a complete law and order failure in West Bengal, and directed that the matter be probed e…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President, Samik Bhattacharya, and the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the State Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday, approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) for the latter’s intervention to stop location tracking of their mobile phones by some top police officers in the state. Both LoP Adhikari and Bhattacharya visited the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO)’s Office on Tuesday afternoon and submitted a writt…
Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, on Sunday, alleged that democratic rights are being systematically suppressed in West Bengal under the Trinamool Congress-led state government. Addressing a press conference at the state BJP headquarters at 6 Muralidhar Sen Lane in Kolkata, Bhattacharya said that the right to dissent is the cornerstone of any democracy, yet the Opposition is being denied this constitutional right i…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Kolendranath Mandi, a Trinamool member of the Purulia Zilla Parishad, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday. He formally joined the opposition at the state Bharatiya Janata Party’s Salt Lake office in Kolkata in the presence of the party’s state president, Samik Bhattacharya, and Purulia Member of Parliament, who also serves as the state Bharatiya Janata Party’s General Secretary, Jyotirmay Singh Mahato.A well-known figure in Santali literature, Kole…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to make adequate safety arrangement besides making sufficient provisions for drinking water as well as other basic amenities for the voters at all polling stations that would be utilised for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month. The division bench of the Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen gave…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) The BJP on Tuesday rubbished the claims of the Trinamool Congress about the state of affairs of the companies registered and active in West Bengal.Quoting a figure presented by the Union Ministry of Corporate Affairs to the Rajya Sabha during the day, BJP’s Information Technology Cell Chief and the party’s central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, brushed aside the claims made by Trinamool Congress leadership earlier that 2,54,000 companies were registered in t…
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday raised the question of whether it was not also the duty of the West Bengal government, along with the Election Commission of India (ECI), to ensure free, fair and violence-free polls in the state.The division bench comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen raised the question during the hearing of a public interest litigation filed by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s West Bengal unit presiden…