Suprotim Mukherjee

Mamata snubs Congress, to contest all Bengal LS seats

January 25, 2024

Barely hours before Congress scion Rahul Gandhi was to enter West Bengal for the next leg of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, his I.N.D.I.A. bloc colleague and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee publicly dismissed any chance of a seat-sharing deal between the two parties and declared that her party would...

CPM not to join Rahul’s Nyay Yatra in Bengal if Trinamool participates

January 24, 2024

A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee laid bare the fissures between I.N.D.I.A. bloc constituents by lambasting the CPIM for “controlling the bloc meetings” during her speech at an all-faith meeting held to coincide with the pran pratishtha of Lord Ram at Ayodhya, the Communist Party of India...

Chink in I.N.D.I.A bloc? Mamata attacks CPI(M), takes a dig at Rahul Gandhi

January 23, 2024

On the day Prime Narendra Modi led the ‘Pran Pratishtha’ celebrations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee used the platform of an all-faith meeting to lay bare the widening fissures within the I.N.D.I.A. bloc in an apparent effort to paint herself as the biggest...

I.N.D.I.A. alliance is dead in Bengal: says Mamata

January 20, 2024

In her clearest comments yet on the fate of the I.N.D.I.A. alliance in Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today told her party leaders from Murshidabad district to prepare to fight all seats, regardless of the fact that State Congress chief and senior leader Adhir Ranjan...

Calcutta HC forms committee to identify fake job cards under MGNREGA

January 19, 2024

A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday directed the formation of a four-member committee for the identification of fake job cards in West Bengal in the 100-day job scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). As per the directive of the Division Bench...

Ed raids multiple locations in kolkata in school recruitment scam case

January 19, 2024

The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday conducted raids simultaneously at seven places in and around Calcutta in connection with its probe into the alleged irregularities in recruitment in schools of West Bengal, a senior officer said. Former Education Minister Partha Chattopadhyay, MLA Manik Bandyopadhyay, and multiple bureaucrats are in custody in the case. The Enforcement Directorate raids were held at...

ED raids another Bengal minister, MLA in municipal job scam case

January 13, 2024

Seven days after an Enforcement Directorate raiding team and its accompanying CRPF escorts were assaulted and driven away by a mob of 1000 people in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal, the agency on Friday raided the residences of Sujit Bose, the Fire and Emergency Services Minister of West Bengal, and MLA...

BJP may field ex-foreign secy Shringla in LS polls

January 13, 2024

Harsh Vardhan Shringla, the chief coordinator of India’s G20 presidency, and a retired IFS officer who has served as foreign secretary and India’s ambassador to the US, has come back to his roots in Darjeeling amid buzz that he may be nominated by the BJP for the Darjeeling Lok Sabha...

Bengal BJP draws police scrutiny over protest against attacks on ED

January 12, 2024

Six days after an Enforcement Directorate raiding team and its escorting CRPF jawans were beaten up by supporters of a Trinamool Congress leader in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal while the police was nowhere to be found, the police today pulled out all stops to prevent the Bharatiya Janata Party from...

Congress likely to settle for six lok sabha seats in west bengal

January 12, 2024

Eager to keep the Trinamool Congress on its side in the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, the central leadership of the Congress has indicated to Mamata Banerjee that it is ready to settle for contesting six Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, party sources said, even though conflicting signals from the different parties...

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