Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday evening ordered the replacement of the officers-in-charge (OCs) of three police stations in Kolkata, including that of the police station under whose jurisdiction the official residence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee falls.The transfers of these three OCs, all inspector-rank police officers, come less than four days before the Assembly constituencies in the state capital of Kolkata go to the polls in the s…
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Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), on Monday, issued notices for interrogation to Kolkata Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Shantanu Sinha Biswas and his two sons in connection with a money-laundering syndicate linked to notorious and absconding gangster Sona Pappu.Incidentally, on Sunday, the ED officials conducted a marathon raid and search operations at the residence of Sinha Biswas at Fern Road in South Kolkata and at a coaching centre owned by one of his sons.Insid…
Kolkata, April 18 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Saturday approached the Election Commission of India (ECI), accusing the Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma of making “divisive, inciteful statements along with defamatory and unverified allegations” targeting the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. In the letter, Trinamool Congress had referred to a public statement made by Assam Chief Minister Sarma at a campaign rally in Cooch Behar district, where the latter allegedly said that…
Kolkata, April 17 (IANS) A team of Income Tax (I-T) Department officials, heavily escorted by central armed police forces (CAPF) personnel, have started conducting raid and search operations at the residence of a local Trinamool Congress leader Kumar Saha at Kalighat in Kolkata, which is close to the official residence of the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Friday. The I-T department action is part of investigation in the same illegal land-grabbing related money laundering case ov…
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Thursday launched a blistering attack on the Trinamool Congress-led state government and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing the latter of attempting to “spread” illegal infiltrators in the country. The BJP also held the Trinamool accountable for developmental issues in the state.The BJP leaders campaigned in different parts of the state for the upcoming two-phased Assembly elections, scheduled for April 23 and …
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) The Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, will be filing his nomination from the Bhabanipur constituency in South Kolkata as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate on Thursday in the presence of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah.HM Shah had arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday night. He will be participating in a mega roadshow within the Bhabanipur constituency along with Adhikari before the latter files his nomination.“HM Shah and Adhikari wi…
Kolkata, April 1 (IANS) Trinamool Congress and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee are more worried about “illegal Muslim infiltrators” rather than “Bengalis and Hindu Bengalis in particular”, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) claimed on Wednesday.The BJP, at the same time, criticised Trinamool Congress for allegedly describing Indian tennis star Leander Paes as an “outsider” after the latter joined the BJP on Tuesday at the party’s national headquarters in New Delhi.BJP’s In…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Trinamool Congress will provide legal assistance to those voters whose names will be deleted during the ongoing judicial adjudication, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday. “The voters whose names will be deleted in the judicial adjudication process will be provided with legal assistance from Trinamool Congress. We will arrange advocates for them,” the Chief Minister said while addressing an election campaign at Pandaveswar in West Burdwan dist…
Guwahati, Jan 9 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday strongly criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool Congress supremo over her conduct during and after the recent Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid at the Kolkata office of political consultancy firm I-PAC, as a legal confrontation between the Trinamool Congress and the Centre is set to unfold on January 14.Reacting to the developments, CM Sarma said CM Banerjee’s behaviour at the site of the ED …
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…