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…
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New Delhi, Jan 14 (IANS) A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that women voters were being targeted in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday accused her of spreading fear and falsehood. Speaking to IANS, BJP leader Majumdar said, “Women of West Bengal have realised that if a situation like Bangladesh occurs, they cannot save themselves with their Laxmi Bhandar money. Women are aware of what happene…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) A controversy arose regarding a poster that displayed Trinamool Congress’ All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee in front of Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral residence located on Simla Street in North Kolkata on Monday.The BJP strongly criticised the poster, claiming that it featured only Abhishek Banerjee’s image and omitted any representation of Swami Vivekananda, despite the message ‘Welcome, Crown Prince’ written on it.The BJP said that by placing such a poster in …
Kolkata, Jan 9 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday registered a complaint at two police stations in Kolkata against the Enforcement Directorate’s simultaneous raid and search operations at the office of the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) and the residence of its co-founder, Pratik Jain.According to sources, one complaint has been registered at Shakespeare Sarani Police Station under Kolkata Police, and the other at Electronic Complex Police Station.However, in b…
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to clarify the exact number of illegal Bangladeshi or Rohingya infiltrators in the list of 58.20 lakh voters whose names have been deleted from the draft voters’ list in West Bengal, which was published on December 16 last year.“The BJP is unable to make any electoral progress in West Bengal. That is why they are harassing the p…
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…