Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Sunday that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will introduce the One District, One Product (ODOP) policy in West Bengal if the party comes to power in the state Assembly elections scheduled later this year.”Every district of West Bengal has its own speciality. The common people here have intelligence, talent, and ability. BJP will prepare a plan for each district. As a result, the people of the district concerned will benefit the most. If th…
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Hooghly, Jan 18 (IANS) As Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a public gathering at Singur in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, BJP workers and supporters have begun assembling at the venue in large numbers, displaying visible enthusiasm and anticipation. From the early hours of Sunday morning, party workers and supporters started reaching Singur, creating a charged political atmosphere ahead of the Prime Minister’s rally.Raising slogans such as ‘Narendra Modi Zindabad’, BJP leaders, wo…
New Delhi, Jan 18 (IANS) West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose arrived at Bandel railway station on Sunday after travelling from Malda on the Intercity Express, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scheduled public rally in Singur, Hooghly district. The Governor’s visit is part of preparations related to the Prime Minister’s official engagements in the state.Strict security arrangements were put in place at Bandel station from early morning. Railway officials, along with the district ad…
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) Political tensions are rising ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Singur on Sunday, 17 years after Tata Motors left the area and shifted its Nano car plant to Gujarat. On Sunday, a controversy erupted after some anti-BJP posters appeared in the Ratanpur area of Singur. These posters have been put up in several places along the road.The posters, put up by unidentified individuals, target the Prime Minister with slogans like- ‘Nagorikotto haran sabha’ (a r…
Kolkata, Jan 18 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to address a public rally at Singur in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, where he is expected to resurrect the memories of the exit of Tata Motors’ small car project, Nano, in 2008. The pull-out of the project from Singur happened in the face of the violent movement by Trinamool Congress, as the then Opposition party in the state, led by the then opposition leader and the current West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, against lan…
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) Amid Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s scathing attack on Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress on various issues from a public rally in the minority-dominated Malda district on Saturday, the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released a video song on social media, the main theme of which echoes the Prime Minister’s call for a change of regime in the eastern state, and the beginning of BJP rule after the crucial Assembl…
New Delhi, Jan 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Singur visit on Sunday has brought hopes back for many farmers in a region whose return to the national spotlight underscores a persistent dilemma in Indian development policies — how to reconcile agrarian rights with industrial development. Nearly two decades ago, CPI-M leader and the then West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee tried to introduce industrialisation to a state that had survived largely on agrarian politics and d…
Kolkata, Jan 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to attend three programmes at Malda, two administrative and one political, at the minority-dominated Malda district of West Bengal later in the day on Saturday.At the political rally, which is the last of the three scheduled programs in Malda during the day, the Prime Minister is expected to launch a scathing attack against the West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress, which he had already hinted at in a social media …