Jaipur, April 17 (IANS) Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma said on Friday that the people of West Bengal are “fed up with appeasement politics and corruption”, alleging that development in the state has stalled under the leadership of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Addressing a Marwari community event in Siliguri, Rajasthan Chief Minister Sharma claimed that public resources are being misused while infiltration is being encouraged.In contrast, he asserted, the BJP stands for “clean inte…
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Kolkata, March 30 (IANS) Six days after the mysterious death of a minor girl in north Bengal’s Siliguri, the prime accused, a private tutor, has been arrested from Chennai along with another individual, the police said on Monday.Earlier, one person was detained in connection with the death of the girl. The girl’s death had triggered protests in the city and set off a political exchange between the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and the ruling Trinamool Congress.Deputy Commissioner of Poli…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) In the midst of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s visit to North Bengal, Siliguri is in turmoil following the unnatural death of a minor girl. Local MLA and BJP candidate, Shankar Ghosh, staged a sit-in to demand justice. Meanwhile, Siliguri Mayor and Trinamool candidate Gautam Deb visited the deceased girl’s family on Tuesday and instructed the Siliguri Police Commissioner to take immediate action.According to the police, the private tutor of the minor girl, a …
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is focusing on minute pocket-specific issues in the state to finalise the draft election manifesto for the forthcoming Assembly polls.“While there are certain macro issues that are common for all the zones or pockets in the state in the current complicated political situation in West Bengal, there are also region or pocket-specific issues. So this time, our focus is to highlight minute pocket-specific issues and how we propose…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) A political slugfest surfaced in West Bengal over the omission of the names of victims of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) as well as the victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire mishap on the southern outskirts of Kolkata in the list of obituary mentions on the first day of the budget session of the Assembly on Tuesday.As per protocol, on the first day, the House was adjourned after the obituary mention.However, after the House was adjourned, the Chief Whip of Bharatiya Jan…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) As the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced a 35-member new state committee in West Bengal, the party leadership explained the reasons why the two former state presidents of the party in West Bengal, Dilip Ghosh and Sukanta Majumdar, and the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, were not provided with berths in the newly constituted state committee.Explaining the decision, a member of the new state committee, who was also par…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday named 34 members of the party’s new state committee in West Bengal.Party Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhattacharya, was already elected as the state president of West Bengal last year.On Wednesday, the 34 members of the new state committee were named.The 34 new names included 12 vice-presidents, five general secretaries, 12 secretaries, one treasurer, two joint treasurers, one office secretary, and one joint office secretary.At the…