Mumbai, Jan 29 (IANS) Shiv Sena leader Shaina NC on Thursday slammed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for alleging a conspiracy behind the demise of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP chief Ajit Pawar, urging her and others to refrain from politicising someone’s death. Speaking to media persons after Ajit Pawar’s sudden demise, West Bengal CM Banerjee claimed that Ajit Pawar was likely to leave the NDA and had been planning to return to the Opposition’s INDIA bloc.Shaina NC, s…
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New Delhi, Jan 28 (IANS) Mallikarjun Kharge, the Congress President and Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha, on Wednesday called for an investigation into the plane crash that resulted in the deaths of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and four other individuals. Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Kharge, when asked about West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s demand for a probe by a Supreme Court judge into the accident, said that a thorough investigation was necessary, …
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misleading the people of the state through her claims that Election Commission of India (ECI) was “compelled” to include Madhyamik Examination admit card as an acceptable identity document in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearings because of constant persuasion of Trinamool Congress at the Supreme Court.Madhyamik is the secondary examination conducted by the West Bengal Boar…
Patna, Jan 17 (IANS) Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader and MP Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday said that the alleged obstruction of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials by the West Bengal Chief Minister warrants a high-level inquiry.Addressing a press conference at the BJP state office in Patna, Prasad said the issue was heard by the Supreme Court on Thursday and raised serious concerns regarding the functioning of the state administration.According to Prasad, the Solicitor General of India in…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed the FIRs registered by the West Bengal Police against Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in connection with the recent searches at the premises of political consultancy firm I-PAC and the residence of its co-founder, Pratik Jain, in Kolkata. Observing that the petitions raise serious questions of alleged interference by state agencies in a central investigation, a Bench of Justices Prashant Kumar Mishra and Vipul Pancholi issued n…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) Kolkata Police has started the process of making the neighbours of Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) director Pratik Jain, witnesses in the investigation against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) over the latter’s raid and search operations at Jain’s residence at Loudon Street in central Kolkata on January 8.Sources said on Monday that already, some of the neighbours have been summoned by the investigating team of the city police for questioning on their experie…
Kolkata, Jan 8 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday approached a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of misusing her constitutional position by allegedly creating hindrances to the official duties of central agency officials during raid and search operations conducted earlier in the day.The ED alleged that while its teams were carrying out searches at the office of the India Political Action Committee (I-PAC) in the no…
Kolkata, Jan 1 (IANS) On the first day of the New Year, which coincides with the foundation day anniversary of the Trinamool Congress, the party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, gave a call to her party to stand firm in protecting the democratic rights of the people of the state in the days to come.In her social media message released on Thursday morning, the Chief Minister did not name the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) directly, but tuned her message in such a way that it…
Kolkata, Dec 26 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP, Abhishek Banerjee, on Friday, directed party leaders and workers at all levels to shed their arrogance of attachment with the ruling party and interact with common people with humility in their body language. The occasion was a virtual meeting where he addressed an audience of 5,000 party leaders at all levels and the booth-level agents (BLAs) appointed for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state.”How…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Tuesday, criticised the police action against protesters from the Hindu Jagran Manch on Tuesday during a demonstration in front of Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata over the murder of Hindu man, Dipu Chandra Das, in Bangladesh, and claimed that the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was hiding behind her “thug police force” and steering such action against democratic protests by Hindus in the state. “Mamata Banerjee m…