KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told party leaders Friday that her TMC was a key member of the INDIA bloc but was ready to fight all 42 Lok Sabha seats in Bengal alone if fellow constituent Congress favoured others. The comments were seen as a signal that she was fast running out of … Read more
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday expressed her strong disagreement with the proposal of “one nation-one election” and questioned the concept of “one-nation” in the given context. Mamata alleged that the letter sent by the high-level committee, headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind, to the states … Read more
ALIPURDUAR: Bengal would have reaped the benefits of more welfare projects had the Centre been fair with funding for schemes like NREGS, CM Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday ahead of a visit to Delhi next week to make a pitch for increased allocations.“The Centre owes Bengal Rs 1.15 lakh crore. Imagine the kind of development … Read more
SHIMLA/KULLU: BJP president JP Nadda on Monday attacked Congress, saying it’s a ‘dynastic party of maa, beta and beti’ which had “zero ideology and was ready to make any compromise to grab power”.Comparing the “cadre-based BJP” with the “family-oriented non-BJP parties”, Nadda said at a rally in Kangra’s Nurpur: “There is no party in which … Read more
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday ordered an immediate ban on the screening of the controversial film ‘The Kerala Story’ to avoid “any incident of hatred and violence”, a senior official said here. Action will be taken against any theatre found showing the film, the official said. Earlier in the day, Banerjee described … Read more
NEW DELHI: A political slugfest broke out between TMC and BJP on Friday over comments made by actor Amitabh Bachchan and a song by Arijit Singh at Kolkata International Film Festival. It started with Bachchan’s comments on freedom of expression and reached a crescendo when Arijit sang ‘Rang de tu mohe gerua (colour me saffron)’, … Read more
KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah ruled out at a Bengal BJP meeting on Friday the possibility of President’s Rule in the state as it would be improper to dismiss an elected government backed by a huge mandate. He asked the party’s Bengal unit not to get disheartened, but fight it out politically instead. His … Read more
NEW DELHI: In a move that could further escalate tension between the Centre and West Bengal government, the Delhi Police, which reports to the ministry of home affairs, is learnt to have filed an FIR on a complaint by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) alleging that the Kolkata police officials fabricated and tampered with a court … Read more