Ahead of the state’s Assembly Elections early next year, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal has formed election management teams. Separate teams have been given responsibilities to create the party’s manifesto, organise rallies and marches, mobilise Matua votes, maintain ...
05 Dec 2020 StatesmanThe Calcutta High Court on Friday rejected West Bengal government’s petition against its two-day-old judgement where Comptroller and Auditor General was given the responsibility to audit Amphan-related relief fund distribution. On Tuesday, the High Court had ordered the CAG to ...
05 Dec 2020 StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee on Friday remembered her 14-year-old hunger strike in context of the ongoing nationwide farmers protest against three new farm laws. Revisiting her 26 days hunger strike in 2006 against the forceful acquisition of farms ...
05 Dec 2020 StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee called the protesting farmers at Delhi borders on Friday and assured her complete support for their movement. Banerjee talked to several agitating farmers over the phone of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O’Brian, who ...
05 Dec 2020 StatesmanBidhannagar Police on Wednesday night took to violent measures to disperse protesting Primary TET candidates from SSC Bhavan in Kolkata’s Salt Lake area. They were forcefully transferred to Sealdah station at the dead of the night. The protestors have alleged that ...
04 Dec 2020 StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee on Thursday warned the Central Government of India that her party Trinamool Congress (TMC) will begin agitation if the three new Farm Bills are not withdrawn immediately. Taking to her official Twitter handle, the ...
04 Dec 2020 StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state president in West Bengal, Dilip Ghosh, on Wednesday sparked a controversy with his statement where he said that non-Bengalis contributed more than Bengalis in the development of the state. “From British era, people from outside ...
03 Dec 2020 StatesmanWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be the first Indian woman leader to speak at the coveted Oxford Union Debate when she participates in the event virtually on Wednesday. Banerjee will be the first-ever woman chief minister from India ...
03 Dec 2020 StatesmanFollowing TMC’s apparent ice-breaking meeting with him, rebel leader Suvendu Adhikari has reportedly texted veteran Saugata Roy on Whatsapp and said that “Forgive me, it won’t be possible for me to continue”. According to Bengali channel ABP Ananda, Adhikari wrote ...
03 Dec 2020 StatesmanVeteran Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Saugata Roy has said on Wednesday that it was not for him to decide what Suvendu Adhikari would do after receiving the rebel leader’s Whatsapp message: “Forgive me, it won’t be possible for me ...
03 Dec 2020 StatesmanPopular Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Madan Mitra has been hurriedly made chairman of a state government committe amid rumours about his state of dejection in the party. West Bengal government’s transport ministry on Wednesday issued a notice that it has ...
03 Dec 2020 StatesmanWest Bengal government’ flagship event, ‘Duare Sarkar’- a mega outreach programme to deliver governement schemes at the doorstep of citizens – has been launched on Tuesday. The programme will see governement officials visiting door to door to ensure people get ...
02 Dec 2020 StatesmanOnce an ally of Trinamool Congress (TMC), the Socialist Unity Centre of India (SUCI) has reportedly raised problem with the Left Front partnering Congress for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly Elections next year. As per a report carried by Bengali ...
02 Dec 2020 StatesmanBJP’s state president in West Bengal, Dilip Ghosh, and CPIM politburo member Sujan Chakraborty on Tuesday attacked the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal administration over its flagship ‘Duare Sarkar’ programme and called it an “election stunt”. “Earlier as well, Mamara Banerjee ...
02 Dec 2020 StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused Trinamool Congress (TMC) of attacking its bike rally in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district on Tuesday. At Khejuri in East Midnapore, BJP alleged that their bike rally was attacked with bombs after a confrontation ...
02 Dec 2020 StatesmanWest Bengal’s BJP President Dilip Ghosh on Monday sent a legal notice to Trinamool Congress MP and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee for calling him a ‘goon and mafia’. The legal notice served to Banerjee said ...
01 Dec 2020 StatesmanThe General Secretary of the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (Bimal Gurung faction), Roshan Giri, today said that even the state government could give the Hills a ‘permanent political solution’ (PPS) that is being talked of. According to him, the ...
30 Nov 2020 StatesmanWith the Assembly elections just months away and amid the defections, the political scene in north Bengal had heated up, with rumblings seen mostly in the Trinamul Congress camp. Gulam Sarban and Gulam Hyder, the two brothers of minister of ...
30 Nov 2020 StatesmanGorkha Jan Mukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung is scheduled to reach Siliguri on 6 December, according to a party leader. The leader, however, added that Mr Gurung will arrive in the Hills only “a few days after his halt ...
30 Nov 2020 StatesmanAmidst suspense in political circles regarding the future moves of Suvendu Adhikari after his resignation from the state cabinet, another apolitical meeting will be held at Mahisadal in East Midnapore tomorrow, which Adhikari will address. Tamralipta Janakalyan Samity has organised ...
30 Nov 2020 StatesmanEven after his resignation from the West Bengal cabinet, rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Suvendu Adhikari’s security to remain the same, informed East Midnapore police. Adhikari on Friday tendered his resignation as the Minister in Charge of Transport, Irrigation and ...
30 Nov 2020 StatesmanHours after rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Suvendu Adhikari’s resignation from the West Bengal cabinet, the governing party has alleged Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of causing violence in East Midnapore. TMC alleged that BJP workers violently tried to occupy a ...
29 Nov 2020 StatesmanBJP’s national spokesperson Raju Bista today said that the stepping down of state minister Suvendu Adhikari from the West Bengal Government Cabinet was “another nail to the Trinamul Congress coffin.” As reaction to Mr Adhikari stepping down from his ...
29 Nov 2020 StatesmanIn an important political development, Roshan Giri, a leader of the Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (Bimal Gurung faction), is scheduled to make a return to the Hills tomorrow. According to the camp, Mr Giri, who is the Morcha faction’s ...
29 Nov 2020 StatesmanIn a bid to make people aware of the diverse species of birds in the Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary, the forest department is all set to organize a bird festival at Latpanchar in the Hills soon. While the department has ...
29 Nov 2020 StatesmanAmid heavy rumours that Bimal Gurung is planning to return to Darjeeling soon to prepare for the next year’s Assembly Elections, his close aide Roshan Giri will visit the hills on Saturday to gauge the situation on ground. Ever since ...
29 Nov 2020 StatesmanDarjeeling district recorded 87 new cases of Covid-19 today. According to sources, 40 of the fresh cases were from the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, one from Darjeeling Municipality, one from Kharibari, 11 from Sukna, four from Kurseong Municipality, 10 from ...
29 Nov 2020 StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers were allegedly beaten with iron rod and sticks by miscreants supported Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal’s Howrah on Saturday. BJP workers have reportedly claimed that on Friday night when they were correcting a few ...
29 Nov 2020 StatesmanMaking speculations about his exit from Trinamool Congress (TMC) more apparent, rebel leaber Suvendu Adhikari on Friday tendered his resignation from the West Bengal cabinet. Adhikari, who was serving as the Minister in Charge of Transport, Irrigation and Water resource ...
28 Nov 2020 StatesmanAfter his resignation from the West Bengal cabinet, rumours are rife that the rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Suvendu Adhikari’s exit from the party is just a matter of time. However, a report carried by Bengali portal The Wall suggests ...
28 Nov 2020 StatesmanWest Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar today said an audit needs to be done of the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration (GTA). The Governor was addressing a press conference at the Circuit House in Kalimpong, where he also expressed displeasure on the failure ...
27 Nov 2020 StatesmanChief minister Mamata Banerjee in a message to "disgruntled" leaders and amidst growing rift within the party made it clear that she remains the lone custodian of TMC. She tried to dispel brewing "misunderstanding" regarding the role of poll ...
27 Nov 2020 StatesmanThe day-long All India General Strike, called by ten central trade unions and supported by Congress and the Left parties, has seen sporadic violence across the state of West Bengal on Thursday. According to reports on Bengali media, the protestors ...
27 Nov 2020 StatesmanThe day-long All India General Strike on Thursday, called by ten central trade unions and supported by Congress and the Left parties, has been successful, claimed CPIM in Kolkata. Addressing the press after a march in support of the strike, ...
27 Nov 2020 StatesmanBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers on Thursday clashed with the police after they were stopped short of the under-construction Majerhat Bridge in the southwestern part of Kolkata. The police had raised barricades in order to stop the marching BJP cadres. ...
27 Nov 2020 StatesmanVeteran Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader has compared Bhartiya Janta Party’s state president in West Bengal, Dilip Ghosh, with Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut. Ghosh, Medinipur MP, at his trademark ‘Chay Pe Charcha (Discussion over tea)’ event recently had asserted that West ...
26 Nov 2020 StatesmanBJP leader Shreerupa Mitra Choudhury has claimed that around 600 women are victimized by ‘Love Jihad’ in the South Malda Parliamentary area every year. Ms Mitra Choudhury, in a six-point memorandum, which she served to West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar ...
26 Nov 2020 StatesmanThe BJP-called 12-hour general strike in Kaliyaganj in North Dinajpur district was near total today. Police arrested 22 BJP activists who had been picketing at different places of the town. BJP members later held a demonstration in front of the ...
26 Nov 2020 StatesmanFashion designer-turned-BJP leader Agnimitrq Paul has created a storm with her controversial remark that West Chief Minster Mamata Banerjee had asked her supporters to “go and rape for entertainment”. At an event in East Midnapore, Paul, a leader in BJP’s ...
26 Nov 2020 StatesmanLeft-leaning trade unions in South Dinajpur today organised a rally in favour of the 12-hour general strike called by central trade unions and federations on 26 November, and served a seven-point memorandum to the Balurghat Sub-divisional Officer. The Left parties ...
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