Kolkata, Feb 1 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be meeting the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters in New Delhi on Monday.She will be departing for the national capital on Sunday afternoon, with multiple programmes scheduled during her trip, primarily focusing on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.Apart from that, she is also likely to interact with the top leaders of the opposition …
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Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee government will move a motion in the West Bengal Assembly to condemn the role of Central probe agencies like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the state during the Budget Session starting next week.Sources in the Trinamool Congress’s legislative party in the state Assembly said that during the session, the Treasury Bench will also move another motion condemning the manner in which the ongoing Special Int…
Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday communicated to the West Bengal government informing about its decision to stall the state-government ordered departmental transfers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers from the West Bengal cadre who are currently on temporary deputation to the Commission for the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) in the state.In the communique to West Bengal Chief Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, the ECI’s secretary Sujee…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee will visit the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal on January 27 to meet with CEO Manoj Agarwal, along with a 10-member delegation of his party leaders.Sources in the Trinamool Congress said on Tuesday that an application via email requesting a meeting with the CEO has been sent. The move from the Mamata Banerjee-led party came a day after it claimed a major victory in the Supreme Court after it issued a se…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) After Farakka in Murshidabad, another BDO office has been vandalised, this time in the Chakulia area of North Dinajpur district. On Thursday, allegations of vandalism and arson at the Gorakhpur II BDO office in Chakulia surfaced during protests against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in the state.According to police sources, several people blocked the state highway and staged a demonstration. Those who were summoned for the SIR hearing were primarily…
Kolkata, Jan 10 (IANS) Amid the controversies of the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s raid and search operations at the office of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of the entity’s co-founder Pratik Jain on Thursday, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to conduct a review of the complaints received about I-PAC staff allegedly being appointed as data-entry operators in the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal after being shown as co…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) From demonetisation in 2016 to the current Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Union government have developed a habit of forcing people to stand in queues, Trinamool Congress general secretary and party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee said on Saturday.“Almost 10 years ago, the current Union government forced people to stand in queues through demonetisation by floating the dream of recovery of black money. …
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) The political heat escalated on Wednesday as Bihar Minister Dilip Jaiswal launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her opposition to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, saying that she has lost her mind.Responding to Banerjee’s threat to gherao the Election Commission (EC) office in Delhi, Jaiswal said, “Mamata Banerjee has lost her mind. The people of Bengal will never accept the way she has supported illegal…
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) Keeping in view the ongoing festive mood ahead of the New Year celebrations, there will be no public rally during Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s scheduled three-day visit to West Bengal beginning December 29.HM Shah is expected to arrive in Kolkata on December 29 and return to New Delhi on the evening of December 31, sources in the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said.Soon after his arrival in Kolkata on December 29 evening, the Union Home Minister will h…
Bhubaneswar, Dec 26 (IANS) The Chief Election Commissioner of India, Gyanesh Kumar, will be visiting Odisha on a three-day official tour from December 27 to 29, according to an official statement issued on Friday. The CEC is scheduled to visit Puri and offer prayers at the sacred Shree Jagannath Temple on December 27. Following the visit to the 12th-century shrine, he will proceed to the famous Konark Sun Temple the same day. The CEC’s itinerary also includes a visit to Heritage Village Raghur…