Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking the scrapping of the FIR registered against him by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the legislators’ signatures mismatch case. Earlier, senior Trinamool legislator Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had challenged a CID notice in the matter before the High Court.Based on Banerjee’s petition, the High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the West Ben…
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Kolkata, June 11 (IANS) The West Bengal Assembly will henceforth adopt paperless functioning, Speaker Rathindra Bose told media persons on Thursday. At the same time, he said that a special training session will be organised for first-time legislators to help them get acclimatised to the functioning of Assembly proceedings.According to the Speaker, with a memorandum of understanding (MoU) having been signed earlier this month for the launch of the National e-Vidhan Application (NeVA) scheme in W…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) The first meeting of the new block in the Trinamool Congress Legislative Party in the West Bengal Assembly, which is now the recognised group and the official principal opposition party in the state as per records of the House, will be held on Thursday.The meeting, to be held on the Assembly premises, will be chaired by Ritabrata Banerjee, the ‘expelled’ Trinamool Congress legislator from Uluberia (Purba) constituency in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district.Ritabrata is now th…