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  • In a blow to BJP, some other MLA joins Trinamool Congress

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    KOLKATA:  Suman Kanjilal, BJP MLA from a north Bengal constituency, joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress’s nationwide basic secretary and nephew of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee.  

    With Kanjilal’s defection, BJP’s power within the Meeting has come all the way down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs had joined the ruling TMC previous. Two MPs, who contested and gained within the 2021 Meeting polls determined to serve as because the representatives within the decrease Area.

     “As an MLA, I need to paintings for the typical folks. I mentioned it with the CM and joined the TMC. I sought after to accomplish extra as a BJP MLA below the schemes of the Union executive. However I may no longer as a result of many initiatives have been stalled by means of the BJP-led Centre,’’ mentioned Kanjilal.

    KOLKATA:  Suman Kanjilal, BJP MLA from a north Bengal constituency, joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress’s nationwide basic secretary and nephew of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee.  

    With Kanjilal’s defection, BJP’s power within the Meeting has come all the way down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs had joined the ruling TMC previous. Two MPs, who contested and gained within the 2021 Meeting polls determined to serve as because the representatives within the decrease Area.

     “As an MLA, I need to paintings for the typical folks. I mentioned it with the CM and joined the TMC. I sought after to accomplish extra as a BJP MLA below the schemes of the Union executive. However I may no longer as a result of many initiatives have been stalled by means of the BJP-led Centre,’’ mentioned Kanjilal.

  • As Trinamool continues to stand ED, CBI warmth; ‘new get together in six months’ publish in Kolkata

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: A staff of the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday visited the Presidency Correctional House within the southern a part of town to quiz former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in reference to its probe into a college jobs rip-off, an professional stated.

    Within the recent spherical of wondering, Chatterjee shall be grilled at the foundation of the interrogation of Arpita Mukherjee, his shut affiliate who used to be additionally arrested via the ED as a part of the investigation, the professional stated.

    “We had quizzed Arpita the day past and he or she has given us a number of leads at the foundation of which we can be wondering Partha Chatterjee as of late,” he instructed PTI.

    Chatterjee, the now-suspended Trinamool Congress chief, and Mukherjee had been arrested via the ED final month in reference to its investigation into irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers via the Faculty Carrier Fee.

    The central company has additionally seized crores of rupees from Mukherjee’s properties in several portions of Kolkata.

    In the meantime, Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation are prone to query the daughter of arrested Trinamool Congress chief Anubrata Mondal on Wednesday in reference to their probe into the alleged livestock smuggling rip-off, a senior professional stated.

    The CBI sleuths are anticipated to seek advice from Mondal’s place of dwelling in Bolpur in West Bengal’s Birbhum district to quiz his daughter.

    They are going to query the accountant of the TMC’s district president as part of their probe into the multi-crore rip-off, the CBI professional stated on Tuesday.

    “Our officials will seek advice from Mondal’s Bolpur place of dwelling the next day to come to query his daughter. We might also interrogate his accountant,” he instructed PTI.

    The central company suspected that a number of financial institution accounts belonging to Mondal’s daughter had been used for monetary transactions within the rip-off, he stated.

    “We’ve got discovered a number of joint financial institution accounts of Mondal and his daughter. The 2 are joint holders of many different belongings as neatly. A number of accounts belonging to his daughter had been used for transactions within the livestock smuggling rip-off.”

    “A flat in Chinar Park space, at the outskirts of town, used to be registered in his daughter’s identify. We’ve got discovered two extra apartments in her identify. There are a number of rice generators too,” the officer stated.

    All the way through the day, the CBI sleuths puzzled Mondal in reference to the rip-off, he stated, claiming that the TMC chief “didn’t cooperate” with them.

    The central company has been accusing Mondal of “now not cooperating” with its sleuths since his arrest final week.

    All the way through the day, a separate team of CBI officials visited the correctional house in Asansol and grilled Mondal’s bodyguard Saigal Hossain, who has additionally been in custody for his alleged involvement within the rip-off, the central company’s professional added.

    Posters claiming {that a} “new and reformed TMC will come into being in six months”, bearing images of get together common secretary Abhishek Banerjee however now not of West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, were publish in quite a lot of portions of Kolkata.

    The posters had been publish most commonly in south Kolkata’s Hazra and Kalighat spaces, each close to the TMC supremo’s place of dwelling in Bhowanipore.

    Then again, not one of the posters bore Mamata Banerjee’s images, which has seldom been the case in TMC posters because the get together’s inception in 1998.

    Even if lots of the get together leaders remained tight-lipped over the improvement, TMC state secretary common Kunal Ghosh, who is thought of as as regards to Abhishek Banerjee, stated there used to be not anything incorrect with the posters.

    “Over and over again, Abhishek Banerjee has stated that we wish to be informed and fortify ourselves. We wish to fulfil the aspirations of the loads. So possibly some over-enthusiastic get together employees publish posters along with his quotes issued previously,” Ghosh stated.

    In keeping with TMC insiders, the arrest of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal can have far-reaching penalties inside the get together as it is going to additional cement the younger brigade’s grip at the organisation.

    Reacting to the improvement, state Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated those posters had been the fallout of an inner-party combat with the TMC.

    “For final three hundred and sixty five days, an inner-party combat inside the TMC has been out within the open.

    However whether or not it is for excellent or dangerous, there’s no hurt in accepting the fact that Mamata Banerjee remains to be and can stay the motive force in the back of the TMC,” he stated.

    In the meantime, state BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday courted controversy via asking get together employees to hold sticks with flags and withstand if makes an attempt are made to forestall them all through the get together’s September 7 protest march to the state secretariat.

    His name drew sharp complaint from the ruling TMC, which accused the saffron get together of “looking to vitiate the state’s non violent setting”.

    Addressing a get together rally at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district, he stated there could be stiff resistance if makes an attempt are made to forestall the march.

    “On September 7, we can march to Nabanna (state secretariat) to protest the corrupt TMC regime within the state. But when we’re stopped, there could be stiff resistance. I request all of you to hold sticks at the side of flags,” he stated.

    The protest march is a part of the BJP’s upping the ante in opposition to TMC following the arrest of 2 state ministers.

    Later, whilst talking with journalists, Majumdar asserted that each and every particular person has the correct to self-defence.

    “As in step with our Charter, each and every particular person has the correct to self-defence. If any individual tries to assault, you’ll be able to at all times take steps to offer protection to your self,” he stated.

    Reacting to his feedback, TMC state common secretary Kunal Ghosh stated, “The BJP is making an attempt to disturb the non violent setting of the state. The saffron get together and its leaders in West Bengal don’t have any credibility,” he stated.

    KOLKATA: A staff of the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday visited the Presidency Correctional House within the southern a part of town to quiz former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee in reference to its probe into a college jobs rip-off, an professional stated.

    Within the recent spherical of wondering, Chatterjee shall be grilled at the foundation of the interrogation of Arpita Mukherjee, his shut affiliate who used to be additionally arrested via the ED as a part of the investigation, the professional stated.

    “We had quizzed Arpita the day past and he or she has given us a number of leads at the foundation of which we can be wondering Partha Chatterjee as of late,” he instructed PTI.

    Chatterjee, the now-suspended Trinamool Congress chief, and Mukherjee had been arrested via the ED final month in reference to its investigation into irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers via the Faculty Carrier Fee.

    The central company has additionally seized crores of rupees from Mukherjee’s properties in several portions of Kolkata.

    In the meantime, Sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation are prone to query the daughter of arrested Trinamool Congress chief Anubrata Mondal on Wednesday in reference to their probe into the alleged livestock smuggling rip-off, a senior professional stated.

    The CBI sleuths are anticipated to seek advice from Mondal’s place of dwelling in Bolpur in West Bengal’s Birbhum district to quiz his daughter.

    They are going to query the accountant of the TMC’s district president as part of their probe into the multi-crore rip-off, the CBI professional stated on Tuesday.

    “Our officials will seek advice from Mondal’s Bolpur place of dwelling the next day to come to query his daughter. We might also interrogate his accountant,” he instructed PTI.

    The central company suspected that a number of financial institution accounts belonging to Mondal’s daughter had been used for monetary transactions within the rip-off, he stated.

    “We’ve got discovered a number of joint financial institution accounts of Mondal and his daughter. The 2 are joint holders of many different belongings as neatly. A number of accounts belonging to his daughter had been used for transactions within the livestock smuggling rip-off.”

    “A flat in Chinar Park space, at the outskirts of town, used to be registered in his daughter’s identify. We’ve got discovered two extra apartments in her identify. There are a number of rice generators too,” the officer stated.

    All the way through the day, the CBI sleuths puzzled Mondal in reference to the rip-off, he stated, claiming that the TMC chief “didn’t cooperate” with them.

    The central company has been accusing Mondal of “now not cooperating” with its sleuths since his arrest final week.

    All the way through the day, a separate team of CBI officials visited the correctional house in Asansol and grilled Mondal’s bodyguard Saigal Hossain, who has additionally been in custody for his alleged involvement within the rip-off, the central company’s professional added.

    Posters claiming {that a} “new and reformed TMC will come into being in six months”, bearing images of get together common secretary Abhishek Banerjee however now not of West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, were publish in quite a lot of portions of Kolkata.

    The posters had been publish most commonly in south Kolkata’s Hazra and Kalighat spaces, each close to the TMC supremo’s place of dwelling in Bhowanipore.

    Then again, not one of the posters bore Mamata Banerjee’s images, which has seldom been the case in TMC posters because the get together’s inception in 1998.

    Even if lots of the get together leaders remained tight-lipped over the improvement, TMC state secretary common Kunal Ghosh, who is thought of as as regards to Abhishek Banerjee, stated there used to be not anything incorrect with the posters.

    “Over and over again, Abhishek Banerjee has stated that we wish to be informed and fortify ourselves. We wish to fulfil the aspirations of the loads. So possibly some over-enthusiastic get together employees publish posters along with his quotes issued previously,” Ghosh stated.

    In keeping with TMC insiders, the arrest of senior leaders Partha Chatterjee and Anubrata Mondal can have far-reaching penalties inside the get together as it is going to additional cement the younger brigade’s grip at the organisation.

    Reacting to the improvement, state Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated those posters had been the fallout of an inner-party combat with the TMC.

    “For final three hundred and sixty five days, an inner-party combat inside the TMC has been out within the open.

    However whether or not it is for excellent or dangerous, there’s no hurt in accepting the fact that Mamata Banerjee remains to be and can stay the motive force in the back of the TMC,” he stated.

    In the meantime, state BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday courted controversy via asking get together employees to hold sticks with flags and withstand if makes an attempt are made to forestall them all through the get together’s September 7 protest march to the state secretariat.

    His name drew sharp complaint from the ruling TMC, which accused the saffron get together of “looking to vitiate the state’s non violent setting”.

    Addressing a get together rally at Madhyamgram in North 24 Parganas district, he stated there could be stiff resistance if makes an attempt are made to forestall the march.

    “On September 7, we can march to Nabanna (state secretariat) to protest the corrupt TMC regime within the state. But when we’re stopped, there could be stiff resistance. I request all of you to hold sticks at the side of flags,” he stated.

    The protest march is a part of the BJP’s upping the ante in opposition to TMC following the arrest of 2 state ministers.

    Later, whilst talking with journalists, Majumdar asserted that each and every particular person has the correct to self-defence.

    “As in step with our Charter, each and every particular person has the correct to self-defence. If any individual tries to assault, you’ll be able to at all times take steps to offer protection to your self,” he stated.

    Reacting to his feedback, TMC state common secretary Kunal Ghosh stated, “The BJP is making an attempt to disturb the non violent setting of the state. The saffron get together and its leaders in West Bengal don’t have any credibility,” he stated.

  • ‘Centre shelling out step-motherly remedy to Bengal’: Trinamool’s Abhishek Banerjee

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Senior TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday accused the BJP-led executive on the Centre of shelling out step-motherly remedy against opposition-ruled West Bengal by way of “now not freeing” the monetary dues of the state.

    Banerjee, the TMC nationwide common secretary, additionally alleged that the Centre has now not dispensed budget for West Bengal out of “vendetta” over its humiliating defeat within the ultimate meeting polls.

    “The central executive helps to keep treating West Bengal in a step-motherly way and is but to liberate dues for the 100-day paintings scheme. Round Rs 9,000 crore are due from the Centre. They’d launched budget for different states, apart from West Bengal. By means of now not giving Bengal’s percentage, the BJP is accepting the truth that they’re miffed that Bengal did not vote for them,” he mentioned.

    Banerjee, whilst the basis stone laying rite for a Water Provide Augmentation Venture in Budge Budge, mentioned as a substitute of the BJP, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee follows the motto of “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas” (With all, for everybody’s building) slogan.

    “As other people of West Bengal defeated them within the meeting polls, they (BJP), out of vendetta politics, are looking to deprive the state of its due rights,” he mentioned.

    Whilst checklist out quite a lot of building tasks that he carried out in his constituency, Banerjee, had a phrase of warning for middlemen who, consistent with him, attempt to forestall building paintings for his or her vested pursuits.

    “I had requested officers to complete paintings in a time-bound way and monitored the development. I had additionally suggested the police to take suo-motu cognizance in opposition to other people growing hurdles for the water mission.”

    “I consider nobody is permitted to prevent the development of labor. Nobody can are available between you and your MP,” he mentioned.

    The 2-time MP from Diamond Harbour constituency in South 24 Parganas district claimed that his constituency changed into a type for others in dealing with the COVID state of affairs.

    “All over the COVID-19 pandemic, the positivity fee in Diamond Harbour was once soaring across the 14 according to cent-mark. Inside of two weeks, we introduced down the ratio to 2 according to cent. We performed over 50,000 exams in one day in Diamond Harbour,” he mentioned.

    KOLKATA: Senior TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday accused the BJP-led executive on the Centre of shelling out step-motherly remedy against opposition-ruled West Bengal by way of “now not freeing” the monetary dues of the state.

    Banerjee, the TMC nationwide common secretary, additionally alleged that the Centre has now not dispensed budget for West Bengal out of “vendetta” over its humiliating defeat within the ultimate meeting polls.

    “The central executive helps to keep treating West Bengal in a step-motherly way and is but to liberate dues for the 100-day paintings scheme. Round Rs 9,000 crore are due from the Centre. They’d launched budget for different states, apart from West Bengal. By means of now not giving Bengal’s percentage, the BJP is accepting the truth that they’re miffed that Bengal did not vote for them,” he mentioned.

    Banerjee, whilst the basis stone laying rite for a Water Provide Augmentation Venture in Budge Budge, mentioned as a substitute of the BJP, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee follows the motto of “Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas” (With all, for everybody’s building) slogan.

    “As other people of West Bengal defeated them within the meeting polls, they (BJP), out of vendetta politics, are looking to deprive the state of its due rights,” he mentioned.

    Whilst checklist out quite a lot of building tasks that he carried out in his constituency, Banerjee, had a phrase of warning for middlemen who, consistent with him, attempt to forestall building paintings for his or her vested pursuits.

    “I had requested officers to complete paintings in a time-bound way and monitored the development. I had additionally suggested the police to take suo-motu cognizance in opposition to other people growing hurdles for the water mission.”

    “I consider nobody is permitted to prevent the development of labor. Nobody can are available between you and your MP,” he mentioned.

    The 2-time MP from Diamond Harbour constituency in South 24 Parganas district claimed that his constituency changed into a type for others in dealing with the COVID state of affairs.

    “All over the COVID-19 pandemic, the positivity fee in Diamond Harbour was once soaring across the 14 according to cent-mark. Inside of two weeks, we introduced down the ratio to 2 according to cent. We performed over 50,000 exams in one day in Diamond Harbour,” he mentioned.

  • ‘BJP to stand Sri Lanka, Afghanistan-like protest by means of other people’: Abhishek Banerjee

    By way of PTI

    DHUPGURI: Trinamool Congress nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee attacked the BJP on Tuesday, claiming that it’s going to face Sri Lanka and Afghanistan-like protests by means of other people as a result of the stable hike in gasoline costs within the nation.

    Whilst the Mamata Banerjee govt in West Bengal is giving cash within the fingers of girls via a scheme, High Minister Narendra Modi is taking it clear of them by means of elevating cooking gasoline costs to almost Rs 1,100 consistent with cylinder, he claimed.

    Petrol and diesel costs also are emerging continuously, he stated.

    “What took place in Sri Lanka and Afghanisthan, I consider the folk of India will create a identical scenario towards the BJP,” Banerjee stated whilst addressing a public assembly right here.

    Protestors in crisis-hit Sri Lanka lately stormed into the legit flats of the President and High Minister despite the fact that they’d left the homes ahead of that.

    On the other hand, why Banerjee discussed Afghanistan isn’t transparent.

    Banerjee additionally stated that the ones north Bengal leaders of the TMC as a result of whom electorate became clear of the celebration within the ultimate Lok Sabha and meeting elections won’t get tickets within the subsequent panchayat polls.

    Regarding the call for for a separate state comprising the northern districts of West Bengal by means of a bit of BJP leaders, Banerjee who is thought of as no.2 within the Trinamool Congress asserted that no one will dare to divide the state until Mamata Banerjee is the manager minister.

    “On account of a couple of leaders, electorate of north Bengal had became clear of the TMC within the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2021 meeting elections. The celebration has known them and none of such other people can be given tickets within the panchayat polls (due subsequent yr),” Abhishek Banerjee stated.

    The saffron celebration has fared smartly in the ones two elections within the northern districts corresponding to Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar.

    In quest of to venture a blank symbol of the ruling celebration within the state, he stated that one has to make a decision whether or not he’s going to paintings for the Trinamool Congress or for his trade as a contractor.

    Allegations have arise in some spaces about some TMC panchayat leaders making belongings price past their identified resources of source of revenue.

    “No person gets (TMC) price ticket for the panchayat elections at the foundation of financial institution stability. It is going to be in line with the certificates by means of other people,” Banerjee stated, addressing a public assembly at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district within the northern a part of the state.

    He stated he does no longer just like the time period ‘north Bengal’ as apparently that the area isn’t the same as the remainder of the state.

    “There may be simplest West Bengal and no south or north. If somebody thinks of dividing Bengal, we can save you it with the ultimate drop of our blood,” he stated.

    Calls for for a separate state or Union territory for the northern a part of the state had been raised by means of the BJP within the ultimate a number of years alleging that the area didn’t have any construction.

    He claimed that the Left Entrance right through its 34-year-long rule had accomplished not anything for the improvement of north Bengal whilst the TMC, after coming to energy in 2011, has bridged the distance to a big extent.

    Admitting that the TMC’s management within the north Bengal districts has dedicated some mistakes, Banerjee stated, “I’ve come to hunt your pardon and to provide you with my phrase that I will be able to seek advice from those puts steadily.”

    Banerjee requested the TMC native leaders to stroll the additional mile ahead of the panchayat polls in all sales space spaces the place the celebration fared poorly within the ultimate meeting and Lok Sabha elections.

    He requested them to carry file playing cards on their actions within the ultimate 365 days following the meeting elections after they cross to Kolkata for the July 21 martyrs’ day rally of the TMC.

    On BJP leaders’ statement that central finances must be stopped if the central scheme just like the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna is renamed as Bangla Awas Yojana, he stated that if a programme is being taken up in a state, its title must be there.

  • ED quizzes Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee’s spouse Rujira in coal pilferage rip-off

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday interrogated Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee’s spouse Rujira Narula Banerjee at its Kolkata place of job for over six hours in reference to its probe into the coal pilferage rip-off, an officer stated.

    The officer stated that Rujira went to the ED place of job on the CGO complicated at round 11 am sporting her two-and-a-half-year-old son in her fingers. 4 officials, together with two girls, wondered her.

    “We now have wondered her about a couple of transactions made in a checking account in Bangkok. Her solutions are being tallied with the ones given through individuals who had been interrogated previous in the similar case. Rujira is also known as once more in a couple of days for some other spherical of wondering,” he stated when contacted.

    All over all the grilling consultation, Banerjee’s son remained on her lap, the officer stated. “The kid was once crying each time her mom was once placing him down from her lap,” he added. The Ideally suited Court docket has allowed ED to quiz Banerjee and his spouse within the coal smuggling case in Kolkata through giving them an advance 24 hour realize.

    The ED had expressed apprehensions on the apex courtroom mentioning previous circumstances of violence towards CBI officials, who had been gheraoed within the town after 3 heavyweight TMC leaders had been summoned through them in reference to some other rip-off at its place of job.

    It had mailed to the state police searching for coverage. Following it an enormous police association was once made on the ED place of job right here, a senior authentic of the drive stated. The investigation is related to an FIR filed through CBI in 2020 in a multi-crore rupees pilferage rip-off.

    The CBI has thus far wondered Rujira two times in reference to the rip-off. The central company had final yr additionally interrogated Rujira’s sister Menoka Gambhir, her husband and better half’s father in reference to the probe.

    It’s alleged that unlawful mining of coal was once performed at leasehold mines of Japanese Coalfields’ in Kunustoria and Kajora spaces close to Asansol in West Bengal. Investigations have hinted in opposition to monetary transactions of Rs 1,300 crore, the majority of which went to a number of influential other folks as consistent with CBI.

    The probe printed that the cash was once deposited in international financial institution accounts of those influential other folks thru hawala.

  • Vlogger Roddur Roy arrested in Goa for hurling abuses at Mamata, Abhishek over KK’s demise

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: A workforce of the Kolkata Police on Tuesday afternoon arrested vlogger Roddur Roy from Goa on fees of abusing Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, all the way through a Fb Are living consultation, a senior officer of the pressure stated.

    “He was once arrested this afternoon through our officials in Goa. He’ll be dropped at Kolkata on transit remand. Our officials will produce him at a neighborhood courtroom there for the remand,” the police officer stated.

    An FIR was once lodged beneath quite a lot of sections of the IPC towards the vlogger after a criticism was once filed through TMC spokesperson Riju Dutta at Chitpur police station on Saturday.

    Roy, who extensively makes use of expletives in his social media posts, continuously dating controversies, hurled a barrage of abuses on the leader minister and the Diamond Harbour MP, but even so different TMC leaders corresponding to Firhad Hakim and Madan Mitra, blaming the ruling birthday party for the alleged mismanagement at singer KK’s final live performance at Nazrul Mancha right here.

    The singer had collapsed, in a while after his efficiency on the auditorium, and was once declared ‘introduced useless’ through medical doctors when taken to a health center.

    Roy’s Fb Are living video has been got rid of from the social networking web site through government.

    In the meantime, BJP chief Anupam Hazra, reacting to the improvement, sought to understand why the police had taken no motion towards the vlogger when he used foul language for luminaries like Rabindranath Tagore.

    “Now that the executive minister and Abhishek Banerjee have been abused, the police swung into motion. Why will have to it’s so?” he maintained.

    By the way, in April 2012, the Kolkata Police had arrested Jadavpur College Chemistry Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra for allegedly forwarding an electronic mail containing a caricature of the executive minister.

  • Shameful act to assault a pass judgement on: Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar takes on TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee once more

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: Hitting out at TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday mentioned it was once a “shameful act” to assault a pass judgement on who has uncovered a recruitment rip-off.

    Talking to journalists on the Bagdogra airport in Siliguri, Dhankhar mentioned no one is above the legislation.

    “Those that are chest-thumping and pronouncing that they’re going to proceed to mention this 1000 instances will face the facility of fact. I’ve long past during the commentary very minutely. It is a shameful assault on a person pass judgement on who has uncovered the rustic’s maximum serious recruitment rip-off,” Dhankhar mentioned, with out naming Banerjee.

    He was once relating to the TMC chief’s commentary at a rally in Haldia remaining week the place he had criticised “one in line with cent of the judiciary” for ordering CBI probe in “each and every case” within the state.

    “I believe ashamed to mention that there are one or two other people within the judiciary who’re in hand-in-gloves and feature a tacit figuring out and are ordering CBI investigation in each and every case. That is simply 1 in line with cent of the judiciary,” Banerjee had mentioned.

    Quickly after he made the remark, Dhankhar had mentioned that “the honourable Member of Parliament has crossed the pink line”.

    To this, Banerjee had mentioned he has all the time believed in talking fact to energy.

    “The day past, I mentioned how 1% in Kolkata HC is operating in cohorts with Centre in protective some people. PEOPLE ARE WATCHING, they know who’s if truth be told ‘CROSSING THE RED LINE’. I relaxation my case right here!” he had tweeted.

    The Calcutta Top Court docket has ordered CBI investigations in a variety of instances within the remaining twelve months, together with post-poll violence and recruitment of lecturers by means of the Faculty Carrier Fee (SSC).

    Sooner than leaving for New Delhi after a commute to Darjeeling, Dhankhar mentioned, “Who got the roles? Those that by no means sat for the examinations in addition to the ones whose names weren’t there at the record. On this backdrop, giving any such commentary at a public rally isn’t right kind.”

  • Phase of Trinamool outdated guard frowns on try to mission Abhishek as Mamata’s inheritor obvious

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: A bit of the outdated guard in Bengal’s ruling TMC has taken exception to the hot strive made through two leaders to mission nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee because the inheritor obvious of celebration supremo Mamata Banerjee, and said that the highest brass does now not approve of such remarks.

    A veteran TMC chief stated it used to be absolute best to forget about such feedback.

    “There is not any wish to connect significance to such utterances. The highest management does not approve of such remarks,” a senior TMC chief, who didn’t want to be named, stated.

    The rift over management within the ruling camp, which used to be put to leisure for a twinkling of an eye previous within the 12 months, after the celebration supremo dissolved outdated committees to shape new ones, reared its head once more after TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh raised eyebrows as he stated that Abhishek, nephew of Mamata Banerjee, used to be anticipated to take over the reins of the celebration through 2036.

    “As a soldier of the Trinamool Congress, I will be able to say that Mamata Banerjee would be the leader minister of Bengal until 2036.

    And in 2036, she is going to act as a father or mother on the rite the place Abhishek Banerjee might be sworn in as the executive minister.

    Mamata Banerjee will set a precedent in India through breaking Jyoti Basu’s report as leader minister,” Ghosh stated because the TMC marked three hundred and sixty five days of its 3rd time period in Bengal.

    An afternoon after, every other MP Aparupa Poddar, in a identical vein, wrote on Twitter that she would need to see the Diamond Harbour MP being sworn in because the Bengal leader minister after Mamata Banerjee took oath as the rustic’s top minister.

    Poddar, alternatively, deleted the tweet in a while after.

    The MP, when contacted, stated that she will not be able to talk at the factor as she used to be attending a serve as in her constituency.

    Lashing out at Ghosh, a senior TMC MP stated that Abhishek Banerjee must preferably be requested about his opinion at the remarks made through the celebration spokesperson.

    “Why do not you ask Abhishek Banerjee about it? What are his perspectives about it? We do not connect a lot significance to what Kunal Ghosh is announcing or writing,” he added.

  • BJP the usage of central companies to pursue vendetta politics, says TMC after ED grills Abhishek for 8 hours

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: The ruling TMC on Monday accused the BJP of using central companies to pursue vendetta politics after its MP Abhishek Banerjee will get puzzled for 8 hours by way of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to an alleged coal rip-off in Bengal.

    The BJP management was once fast to hit again, pointing out that the ED and CBI are impartial companies. The celebration puzzled why the TMC grunbled each and every time its leaders have been summoned.

    TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday gave the impression sooner than the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in New Delhi for wondering in a cash laundering case related to the alleged coal rip-off.

    The 34-year-old Trinamool Congress (TMC) nationwide normal secretary was once noticed coming into the brand new administrative center of the central probe company in Delhi round 11 am.

    He left the ED administrative center round 7:30 pm. “ED and CBI are the most important allies of the BJP. As they can not struggle us politically, ED and CBI are used to counter us. The BJP misplaced Bengal elections in 2021; they are going to check in a deficient efficiency once more in 2024 Lok Sabha polls. That is not anything however vendetta politics,” Banerjee advised newshounds after the wondering.

    Echoing him, TMC state normal secretary Kunal Ghosh puzzled why saffron celebration leaders, who’ve been named in Saradha and Rose Valley rip-off, aren’t summoned by way of the central companies.

    “Those central companies are functioning arbitrarily. Each time there may be an election, they harass leaders of opposition events. As there’s a Lok Sabha and meeting by-poll slated, they’ve summoned Abhishek for wondering. However such drive techniques would no longer lend a hand them win elections.”

    “The BJP has was a washer as the ones keen on scams move scot-free when they sign up for the celebration,” Ghosh iterated.

    The Diamond Harbour MP has been previous puzzled on this case by way of the company in September final 12 months for roughly 9 hours.

    The newest ED summons in opposition to the 2 got here after the Delhi Top Court docket on March 11 brushed aside a plea by way of the couple difficult the company notices that requested them to seem within the nationwide capital as an alternative of Kolkata.

    The company lodged the case below the provisions of the PMLA in line with a November 2020 FIR registered by way of the CBI that alleged a multi-crore coal pilferage rip-off associated with Japanese Coalfields Restricted mines within the state’s Kunustoria and Kajora spaces in and round Asansol.

    The ED had claimed that the parliamentarian was once a beneficiary of budget got from this unlawful industry. It has arrested two other people on this case until now.

    Reacting to the allegations levelled by way of the TMC, BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya mentioned the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration had the addiction of complaining each and every time they’re summoned by way of the ED and CBI.

    “The CBI and ED are impartial and impartial companies; the BJP has no reference to them. In the event that they (TMC leaders) have any grievance, they are able to search prison lend a hand,” he mentioned.

  • Mamata convenes assembly of TMC most sensible brass amid rising inner strife

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Amid the continuing inner strife within the TMC, its supremo and West Bengal Leader Minister has convened an emergency assembly of the birthday party’s most sensible officers at her place of abode on Saturday night, resources within the ruling camp stated.

    In line with the resources, simply six senior leaders — nationwide overall secretary Abhishek Banerjee, secretary-general Partha Chatterjee, state birthday party president Subrata Bakshi, and ministers Firhad Hakim, Aroop Biswas and Chandrima Bhattacharya — were requested to wait the assembly.

    “The assembly might be held the next day at 5 pm to speak about the existing political state of affairs in the birthday party. The statements and counterstatements which might be being given by means of some leaders have now not long gone down neatly with the birthday party supremo. This has to forestall someplace. Our birthday party supremo is most likely to present out a message to the entire leaders,” a senior TMC chief stated on situation of anonymity.

    The resources additionally stated that Banerjee, who’s but to shape a brand new running committee of the birthday party, is most likely to speak about methods for the approaching civic polls on February 28.

    The infighting within the ruling TMC escalated on Friday as leaders thought to be to be as regards to birthday party nationwide overall secretary Abhishek Banerjee took to Twitter to recommend the “one particular person one publish” coverage, in keeping with which a member of the birthday party will have to be allowed to carry only one place.

    A bit of previous guards, together with Hakim, termed the transfer as violation of birthday party self-discipline.

    The new spat comes within the backdrop of the perceived energy fight within the birthday party and obvious variations between the generation-next leaders and the old-timers.

    Hakim, who’s the state housing and delivery minister in addition to town mayor, stated the birthday party does now not endorse this kind of principle, and a few leaders have given out “deceptive” posts.