New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Former Solicitor General of India and senior advocate Harish Salve on Tuesday disapproved of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s refusal to formally resign after the Assembly election defeat, warning that attacks on the ECI or constitutional bodies amount to judging constitutional institutions by personal standards that may lead to replacing the rule of law with the rule of men. In an exclusive interview with IANS, Salve spoke of an increasing tendency among po…
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Kolkata, May 5 (IANS) A day after the Trinamool Congress’ defeat in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly polls, the Advocate General of the state, Kishore Datta, tendered his resignation on Tuesday.Datta had forwarded his resignation to the office of the West Bengal Governor, R.N. Ravi, insiders from the Lok Bhavan confirmed.He was appointed as West Bengal’s Advocate General twice during the last 15 years of the Trinamool Congress regime since 2011.An extremely close confidant of outgoi…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) Former Intelligence Bureau (IB) super-cop and also the former Governor of Tamil Nadu, R.N. Ravi, was sworn in as the new Governor of West Bengal on Thursday morning.The ceremony started at 11.30 a.m. at Lok Bhavan (formerly Raj Bhavan) in Kolkata. The oath to the new Governor was administered by the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice Sujoy Paul in the presence of dignitaries like West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Speaker of the Assembly Biman Bandopadhyay and th…
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) Former West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose on Sunday said his resignation from the post was a conscious decision and the reasons behind it would remain confidential till the right time.Speaking to reporters after arriving at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, Bose said he would return to West Bengal again to cast his vote.Bose, a native of Kerala, had shifted his voting base to West Bengal barely a week before tendering his resignation from off…