Kolkata, May 7 (IANS) Senior leaders of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday indirectly targeted the top leadership of the Trinamool Congress over the brutal murder of Chandranath Rath, the long-time personal assistant of outgoing Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari, on the night of May 6.Speaking to mediapersons on Thursday, Adhikari said Rath had paid the price for being the personal assistant of a leader who had defeated outgoing W…
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Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday rejected allegations made by Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee that an elderly voter died after being manhandled by central forces personnel at a polling booth in Udaynarayanpur in Howrah district adjoining Kolkata.”In Udaynarayanpur, an elderly man went to cast his vote with his son. Too frail to walk unaided, his son tried to help him into the booth. Central Forces pushed and manh…
Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) In a development with strong Bengal resonance, outgoing West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Legislative Assembly and noted economist Ashok Kumar Lahiri has been selected to become the next vice-chairman of NITI Aayog, according to people familiar with the matter. His appointment, once formalised, will make him the effective head of the government’s premier policy think tank, as the chairpersonship is held by the Prime Minister by default. Lahiri will succeed S…
Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, on Sunday, alleged that democratic rights are being systematically suppressed in West Bengal under the Trinamool Congress-led state government. Addressing a press conference at the state BJP headquarters at 6 Muralidhar Sen Lane in Kolkata, Bhattacharya said that the right to dissent is the cornerstone of any democracy, yet the Opposition is being denied this constitutional right i…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will release a “charge sheet” or a “White Paper” against the West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress on March 28, during his two-day visit to the poll-bound state amid the upcoming two-phased Assembly elections next month, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sources said on Wednesday. A state BJP committee member said that although it was initially decided that the manifesto, which the party is describing as “Sankalp Patra” now wil…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to make adequate safety arrangement besides making sufficient provisions for drinking water as well as other basic amenities for the voters at all polling stations that would be utilised for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month. The division bench of the Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen gave…
Kolkata, Feb 17 (IANS) Kasturi Goswami, the daughter of former Left Front government Minister Kshiti Goswami joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday, along with former National Security Guard (NSG) Commando Dipanjan Chakraborty and retired Central Reserve Police Force officer Biplab Biswas. The eminent personalities joined the BJP at its Salt Lake party office in the presence of West Bengal BJP President and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya, Leader of the Opposition in State Assembly…
Kolkata, Feb 15 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a mega rally organised by the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata next month. Although the date of the rally is yet to be fixed, a formal announcement in the matter will be made soon after the Holi festival on March 4, said a state committee member of BJP in West Bengal.”The Election Commission of India is also slated to announce the polling dates for the West Bengal Assembly sch…
Kolkata, Feb 7 (IANS) The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now making an effort to understand public sentiment ahead of the upcoming state Assembly elections and before finalising its election manifesto. Accordingly, the Bengal BJP, on Saturday, launched the ‘Sankalp Patra Paramarsha Yatra’ (Manifesto Consultation Drive) programme from the party office in Salt Lake area of Kolkata.State BJP President Samik Bhattacharya, former Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta, senior party leader Tapas …
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected the plea by the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seeking permission to hold a protest demonstration in front of the state secretariat Nabanna at Mandirtala in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district, over Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s alleged move to hinder the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) simultaneous raids on the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC).While turning down the plea…