A view of Election Commission of India, in New Delhi. File. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma The Election Commission on March 27 issued show-cause notices to BJP leader Dilip Ghosh and Congress leader Supriya Shrinate for their offensive remarks against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Kangana Ranaut respectively. Ranaut has been fielded … Read more
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: PTI “A Central team looking into allegations of irregularities in the allotment of houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) on January 6 visited various villages in West Bengal’s Malda district,” officials said. The team led by Deputy Secretary Shakti Kanti Singh of the Union Rural … Read more
Kolkata: A day after Union Panchayat MoS Kapil Moreshwar Patil claimed in Kolkata there was no corruption in MNREGA, taking a u-turn on Friday Patil said he had heard utilization of certificates are issued without completion of work and he will survey physically in several Panchayat areas to find if corruption prevails during his visit … Read more
With an eye on 2024 general elections, the BJP has identified 73,000 polling booths where it is weak and has constituted a committee to strengthen the party’s position on them, sources said on Monday. The majority of these booths are in southern and eastern states, the sources said, adding that the party is also contemplating … Read more
A day after his party’s dismal performance in the KMC polls, veteran BJP leader Tathagata Roy slammed the state leadership, saying the party is being run by a bunch of “rotten debauch-cum-traitors”. On Tuesday, West Bengal’s ruling TMC gained control of the 144-member Kolkata Municipal Corporation, clinching 134 seats, in an emphatic endorsement for the … Read more
On the last day of the election campaign for the Bhabanipur assembly seat bypoll on Monday, tension escalated in the south Kolkata area ahead of the September 30 elections, as Trinamool Congress supporters allegedly physically harassed former BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh while he was campaigning for Priyanka Tibrewal who is pitted against Mamata Banerjee. … Read more
With an eye towards the rising number of dissent voices in Bengal inside BJP, BJP national president JP Nadda held a close door meeting with West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh in New Delhi today. Ghosh briefed Nadda about the leaders, especially the turncoat ones who defected to BJP ahead of the Bengal polls, who … Read more
In a major jolt to the BJP, the party’s national vice-president Mukul Roy did a ‘ghar wapsi’ by joining the Trinamool Congress, along with his son Subhranshu Roy, on Friday, four years after deserting the Trinamool Congress. Mukul Roy was the first TMC leader to join the BJP in September 2017 and is also the … Read more
It was a meeting that hardly lasted for a minute but the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee created a huge political controversy. When senior leaders of the BJP claimed that it was the chief minister’s ego that resisted her from staying away from the review meeting with … Read more
MALDA (WB): Amid chants of “Jai Shri Ram“, BJP president J P Nadda Saturday held a road show in Malda in election-bound West Bengal. Standing atop a decorated lorry with state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and others, he showered jubilant supporters with marigold petals and waved to enthusiastic crowds that gathered along the 1 km … Read more