Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) Nearly a year after they were allegedly pushed into Bangladesh on suspicion of being infiltrators, Bengali migrant worker Sweety Bibi and four others from Paikar village in Birbhum district returned to India on Wednesday along with her two minor children.Among those who returned was Danesh Sheikh, the husband of another migrant worker, Sonali Bibi. The family had alleged that they were pushed into Bangladesh from Assam after being detained on suspicion of being illegal inf…
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Kolkata, June 2 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that if she survives, she will surely displace the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from power in the state after foiling alleged attempts by the saffron camp’s central leadership to disintegrate TMC. “If I survive, I will surely displace the BJP from the position of power in West Bengal. Their central leadership in New Delhi is trying to disintegrate the Trinamool Congre…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in West Bengal, to review the ongoing judicial adjudication of the voters’ documents identified as “logical discrepancy” cases as well the preparedness for the crucial upcoming Assembly elections, will begin from 10 a.m. on Monday with meetings with all registered political parties in the state.The full bench of the Commission, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, arrived in Kolkata from New…
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI)’s full bench, led by Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, arrived in Kolkata from New Delhi late on Sunday evening with a packed schedule for the next two days.CEC Gyanesh Kumar and his team were received at the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport by West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal and state Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty.CEC Kumar is scheduled to begin the visit early on …
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Friday named a three-member delegation that will meet the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Kolkata on Monday.The delegation includes Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra from the Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam and West Bengal Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya.A Trinamool Congress insider said the delegation will press the demand that the election schedu…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday issued a notice for a hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list in West Bengal to Trinamool Congress’ Rajya Sabha member, Samirul Islam.It is learnt that Islam had been served a notice for a hearing as a “logical discrepancy” case, because of the mismatches in his name and that of his father in the current voters’ list with that in 2002, the last time a revision exercise in the voters’ list was…