New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Ahead of Mamata Banerjee assuming power in West Bengal in 2011, a small room at the Trinamool Congress Bhavan in Kolkata used to host a group of fresh-out-of-college youth who worked on “media monitoring” with a panel of screens beaming news and a pile of the day’s newspapers at their desks. The party leader then overseeing the group would fuss over them, share opinion over their reports before finalising the document for the eyes of the party Chairperson herself…
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Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) Addressing a gathering on the occasion of the Eid festival on Saturday morning, the West Bengal Chief Minister criticised the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state and also launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, claiming that the latter was the principal mastermind behind the revision exercise.“I will never allow either the BJP or the Prime Minister to snatch away your voting rights. He often describes certain people as infilt…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday, halted her indefinite anti-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) sit-in protest in West Bengal at Esplanade in Kolkata, which started from the afternoon of February 6. Announcing the withdrawal of the sit-in protest on Tuesday evening, the Chief Minister said that since the Supreme Court’s judgment on the SIR had opened further room for justice, and following the request of the Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhish…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court order to set up Appellate Tribunals to hear voters’ appeals, saying a door closed by the Election Commission has now been opened. She described the order as a new ray of hope for people whose names were deleted or kept under adjudication categories due to ‘logical discrepancy’ under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise.“The door that was firmly shut has opened a little. Thi…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Tuesday said the Election Commission of India (ECI) will take the final decision on the number of phases in West Bengal Assembly polls, depending on the ground-level law and order preparedness in the state. “The ECI’s full bench reviewed the law and order situation in West Bengal for the last two days. All the stakeholders have assured the ECI that the polling will be peaceful, fright-free, and violence-free. The final d…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Proceedings in the Rajya Sabha turned chaotic on Tuesday as Opposition members staged a walkout amid heated exchanges over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, currently underway in several states by the Election Commission of India (ECI).Later the Chairman adjourned the House till late in the afternoon. The SIR exercise, aimed at purifying voter lists by verifying eligibility and removing ineligible entries, has sparked sharp political divisions ah…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) Minutes after the House convened for the second day, the Rajya Sabha witnessed noisy and uproarious scenes over the SIR exercise, currently underway in poll-bound states and also saw the Leader of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and House Chairman C.P. Radhakrishnan engaging in a brief verbal exchange.Mallikarjun Kharge claimed that the SIR drive, being conducted in name of voter verification is fraught with multiple irregularities and malpractices, prompting a quick int…
New Delhi, March 10 (IANS) The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Tuesday the plea filed by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and several Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state.As per the cause list published on the website of the apex court, a Bench led by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and comprising Justices R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi will take up the petitions filed by Bane…
Bhopal, March 9 (IANS) Veteran Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Digvijaya Singh, on Monday, met the Madhya Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Shrivastava and submitted a memorandum, alleging that thousands of fake names had been added to the voter list in Bhopal’s Narela Assembly constituency. Singh said that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) being conducted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) is intended to purify the voter list by removing the names of deceased and il…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, on Monday morning was faced with protests and displays of black flags and “Go-Back” posters by Trinamool Congress activists while he was coming out after offering Puja at the iconic Goddess Kali temple at Kalighat in South Kolkata, which is quite close to the residence of Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee.Before attending to his schedule for the two-day visit of the full Bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI…