In an effort to raise awareness of the value of cleanliness in preventing dengue, Kolkata Mayor Firhad...
West Bengal
Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, said on Wednesday that individuals who have made mistakes should be given the chance to make amends, weeks after prominent Trinamool Congress (TMC) officials were detained in connection with several instances. But she avoided mentioning any names. The TMC party chairperson, Banerjee, asserted that the allegations of corruption against TMC leaders had been exaggerated. “The entire group shouldn’t be held accountable if one or two people make a mistake. There is an effort to paint the entire party in a negative light, as if every member of the TMC is a robber. The worst robbers in the BJP are its leaders, she declared during a party workers’ meeting in Krishnanagar, Nadia district. Former education minister Partha Chatterjee was detained by the ED in July in connection with the School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scandal, while TMC Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal was detained by the CBI in August on suspicion of cattle smuggling. Banerjee also issued a warning to her party’s MLAs in the fractious Nadia district, saying that anyone caught engaging in intra-party warfare will be expelled from the organisation. Those who engage in politics to “satisfy their ego,” according to Banerjee, would not be accommodated in the TMC. Her comments followed news stories alleging that several local TMC leaders had attacked a car carrying Murshidabad TMC leader Murshidabad’s supporters in Karimpur. If someone has made a mistake, Banerjee stated, “the person should be given a chance to correct such faults.” “Our legislators should...
CHIEF MINISTER Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that the BJP was “using” the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in preparation for the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairman declared in her address to party members in Krishnanagar that she would never permit the adoption of CAA or NRC in West Bengal. “I request the people of Ranaghat: Do not listen to the lies of the BJP....
Sulekha Sasmal recalls the day her 10-year-old daughter passed away in front of her as she was...
A PART of Presidency University students gheraoed the varsity’s dean of students for more than 24 hours, demanding that the mess at Eden Hindu Hostel be reopened and that the hostel fees be lowered. At 5 o’clock on Monday, the students started to become unruly. The protesting students have gheraoed Presidency University’s Arun Kumar Maity, dean of students. “We want the mess to be reopened at Eden Hindu Hostel. Although the...
BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh said, “The state has become a terror hub. Police don’t take any...
The Calcutta High Court dismissed a contempt complaint against state Director General of Police (DGP) Manoj Malaviya on Monday. Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, had claimed that he had been denied permission to visit the Netai village in Paschim Medinipur district on January 7 despite providing an undertaking. The petition had previously been the subject of a rule of contempt from Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharyya, who made the observation that it could not be conclusively established that the state had wilfully broken its commitment in the strictest sense. Justice Bhattacharyya dismissed the DGP’s contempt complaint, noting that he could not be held automatically accountable for the conduct of other accused contemnors on the field. Adhikari, however, said that he will move the Supreme Court to challenge the High...
In a cooperative election held on Monday in the Purba Medinipur district’s Nandakumar, THE TMC came in...
Suvendu Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, sent a letter to Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday, pleading with him to send a team of medical professionals and public health specialists to help what he called a “inefficient state government” deal with the rise in dengue cases and alleviate people’s suffering. The BJP politician claimed in the letter, a copy of which he posted on Twitter, that the financial crisis facing the state government— which is occupied with concealing data on the vector-borne disease—is to blame for the situation’s deterioration. “The dengue situation in West Bengal has spiralled out of control due to an...
The Trinamool Congress, the party in power, has started the selection process for the panchayat elections, which...
