Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) The extended Budget Session of the West Bengal Assembly will start from Monday for discussions on the departmental budgets. The session will continue till July 25.The extended session will begin with the ‘mentions phase’, where different legislators will briefly bring urgent local issues, constituency concerns or matters of public importance to the attention of the House.In the concluding part of the first half and the entire second half of the extended session on Monday,…
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Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday extended the interim protection from coercive police actions, including arrest for Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, in the ongoing Criminal Investigation Department (CID) enquiry in the case of mismatch in the signatures of some Trinamool Congress legislators on a document pertaining to appointments of some crucial slots in the West Bengal Assembly that are r…
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…
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) Ending days of speculation, senior Trinamool Congress leader and Kamarhati MLA Madan Mitra on Wednesday quit all posts in the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the party and joined the rival faction headed by Leader of the Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee.Seated alongside Ritabrata Banerjee in the West Bengal Assembly, Madan Mitra announced his resignation from all posts of the original Trinamool Congress while launching a sharp attack on Trinamool Congress general secretary Ab…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) Acclaimed Bangladeshi writer and poet Taslima Nasrin will come to Kolkata on August 1 after 19 years since she left Kolkata for her motherland after pockets in Kolkata turned into virtual battlefields in 2007 during the then West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led regime over the contents of her book “Dwikhandito (The Bifurcated)”. She will be coming to Kolkata on August 1 to attend a cultural programme at Rabindra Sadan in Central Kolkata organised by diff…
Kolkata, July 14 (IANS) A special nine-day session for discussions on the departmental budget in the state on the floor of the West Bengal Assembly has been convened this month.During the session starting from July 17 and ending on July 25, the budgetary allocation for 13 state government departments will be discussed on the floor of the House.In this special session, the details of departmental budgetary allocations will be placed on the floor of the House by the state ministers incharge of the…
Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Three Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates — Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — filed their nominations on Monday for the bypolls to three vacant Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, scheduled to be held on July 24.All three were Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha members. However, they resigned from the Upper House of Parliament last month before the completion of their respective terms, necessitating bypolls to the three seats.On the afternoon o…
Kolkata, July 9 (IANS) Three former Rajya Sabha members of the Trinamool Congress, who resigned from the Upper House of Parliament last month and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) earlier on Thursday evening, have been nominated by the BJP as its candidates for the Rajya Sabha bypolls to the seats vacated by them.On Thursday evening, BJP’s West Bengal president and Rajya Sabha member Samik Bhattacharya welcomed the three former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha members — Sukhendu Sekhar Roy,…
New Delhi, July 7 (IANS) For Trinamool Congress founder and West Bengal’s former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, the upcoming bypoll to elect three members of Rajya Sabha from the state will be a moment of reckoning, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) enjoying a huge majority in the State Assembly, and she witnessing a split within the Trinamool ranks. While the current numbers in the State Assembly decisively favour three-on-three for the BJP in the July 24 election, holding less than 20 of …
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) As internal factionalism in the Trinamool Congress becomes more acute with every passing day, the CPI(M), which currently has only one representative in the West Bengal Assembly, is working on a well-calculated strategy to regain the space of the principal opposition party in the state as fast as possible. The logic of the CPI(M) leadership on this count is simple. While the “original and minority” faction in Trinamool Congress led by former West Bengal Chief Minister Mama…