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  • Mamata Banerjee injured as chopper makes emergency touchdown

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    KOLKATA: West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee sustained accidents after her chopper made an emergency touchdown on the Sevoke airbase close to Siliguri in north Bengal because of tough climate on Tuesday afternoon.

    Mamata was once taken to the SSKM Clinic for a scientific check-up and resources within the healthcare unit stated she won minor accidents on her waist and leg.

    Hon’ble Governor Dr C.V.Ananda Bose is relieved to understand that Hon’ble Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee is protected after the emergency touchdown of her helicopter nowadays. Dr. Bose enquired about her protection and well-being.

    — Governor of West Bengal (@BengalGovernor) June 27, 2023

    Mamata’s chopper took off from the makeshift helipad on the Kranti Maidan in Jalpaiguri district round 12.50 pm, an afternoon after she had attended a marketing campaign forward of the panchayat elections scheduled to be hung on July 8. Her 13-minute flight from Jalpaiguri was once meant to succeed in Bagdogra airport from the place she was once to take a go back flight to Kolkata.

    “It was once drizzling when the chopper took off from Jalpaiguri. When the chopper was once someplace across the Baikunthapur woodland, it met with a thunderstorm. The pilot needed to alternate the scheduled course and landed safely on the airbase. Not one of the passengers within the chopper was once harm within the emergency touchdown. The CM won minor accidents whilst disembarking from the chopper,” stated a central authority reputable.

    Involved concerning the well being of Hon’ble West Bengal Leader Minister @MamataOfficial who has sustained accidents after her chopper’s surprising emergency touchdown.

    I want her a rapid restoration and hoping to peer her again in just right well being quickly.

    — M.Ok.Stalin (@mkstalin) June 27, 2023

    Mamata was once taken to Woodburn Block at SSKM in Kolkata the place Biman Banerjee, Speaker of the state Meeting, B.P. Gopalika, the house secretary, Narayan Swarup Nigam, the well being secretary and Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal have been provide.

    Mamata refused the wheelchair that was once stored in a position however took the strengthen of a senior physician to stroll. The executive minister was once observed uncomfortable and limping on her left foot upon getting down from the auto.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee sustained accidents after her chopper made an emergency touchdown on the Sevoke airbase close to Siliguri in north Bengal because of tough climate on Tuesday afternoon.

    Mamata was once taken to the SSKM Clinic for a scientific check-up and resources within the healthcare unit stated she won minor accidents on her waist and leg.

    Hon’ble Governor Dr C.V.Ananda Bose is relieved to understand that Hon’ble Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee is protected after the emergency touchdown of her helicopter nowadays. Dr. Bose enquired about her protection and well-being.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
    — Governor of West Bengal (@BengalGovernor) June 27, 2023
    Mamata’s chopper took off from the makeshift helipad on the Kranti Maidan in Jalpaiguri district round 12.50 pm, an afternoon after she had attended a marketing campaign forward of the panchayat elections scheduled to be hung on July 8. Her 13-minute flight from Jalpaiguri was once meant to succeed in Bagdogra airport from the place she was once to take a go back flight to Kolkata.

    “It was once drizzling when the chopper took off from Jalpaiguri. When the chopper was once someplace across the Baikunthapur woodland, it met with a thunderstorm. The pilot needed to alternate the scheduled course and landed safely on the airbase. Not one of the passengers within the chopper was once harm within the emergency touchdown. The CM won minor accidents whilst disembarking from the chopper,” stated a central authority reputable.

    Involved concerning the well being of Hon’ble West Bengal Leader Minister @MamataOfficial who has sustained accidents after her chopper’s surprising emergency touchdown.
    I want her a rapid restoration and hoping to peer her again in just right well being quickly.
    — M.Ok.Stalin (@mkstalin) June 27, 2023
    Mamata was once taken to Woodburn Block at SSKM in Kolkata the place Biman Banerjee, Speaker of the state Meeting, B.P. Gopalika, the house secretary, Narayan Swarup Nigam, the well being secretary and Kolkata police commissioner Vineet Goyal have been provide.

    Mamata refused the wheelchair that was once stored in a position however took the strengthen of a senior physician to stroll. The executive minister was once observed uncomfortable and limping on her left foot upon getting down from the auto.

  • Mamata alleges Congress, CPI(M) nexus with BJP in Bengal; accuses BSF of scaring citizens

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    KOLKATA: Kicking off her marketing campaign for the panchayat polls after 15 years and for the primary time since her birthday celebration got here to energy in West Bengal in 2011 Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated the nexus between the CPI(M), Congress and the BJP within the upcoming rural elections gets washed away by way of the decision of the citizens.

    “We’re looking to shape a grand alliance (Mahajot) in opposition to the BJP on the Centre. However the CPI (M) and Congress are looking to paintings with the BJP in Bengal. I will be able to wreck this unholy nexus in Bengal,” the TMC supremo stated whilst addressing a panchayat election rally right here on Monday.

    That is for the second one time within the final ten days that Banerjee has criticised the Congress and CPI (M) for having a tacit working out with the BJP.

    Addressing a rally in Cooch Behar in north Bengal, the place the BJP made deep inroads within the 2019 normal elections, Mamata additionally centered the Border Safety Drive (BSF).

    “I’ve data that some BSF officers are visiting the border spaces, threatening citizens and forcing them to not vote. I will be able to ask folks to not be frightened of BSF’s ways and take part within the elections fearlessly,” she stated.

    Whilst relating to the alleged capturing of villagers by way of the BSF final yr, whom the border pressure claimed as smugglers, Banerjee stated, “Police will resort FIRs in such circumstances and the regulation will take its personal direction.”

    “They do not have the correct to shoot and kill any person. No person is above the regulation; it sort of feels killing folks within the Cooch Behar district has transform a norm,” she stated.

    She additionally asserted that “regulation and order is a state topic” and the Centre has no position in it.

    Her feedback evoked a pointy response from the BSF Guwahati Frontier, underneath whose jurisdiction Cooch Behar falls.

    In a strongly worded remark, it stated the allegations are “utterly baseless and a ways from the reality,” including that the BSF “hasn’t ever intimidated any border inhabitants or citizens within the bordering spaces for any explanation why.”

    “It’s to appraise that the allegations leveled in opposition to BSF by way of the CM West Bengal right through a rally at Cooch Behar, is completely baseless and a ways from the reality,” the discharge stated.

    It stated the BSF is a certified pressure entrusted with the duty of securing the global border of India, and “hasn’t ever intimidated any border inhabitants or citizens within the bordering spaces for any explanation why.”

    It identified that BSF workforce deployed for election responsibility are underneath the whole supervision of the native management.

    For his or her phase, Opposition events alleged that Mamata has begun campaigning for the agricultural polls as she is feeling the warmth of voter discontent. 

    The BJP, too, dubbed the executive minister’s allegation of the usage of the BSF to serve its political objective as baseless. “Such feedback are unacceptable and an insult to our safety forces. This displays the mindset of the TMC, which has been in opposition to the BSF since its jurisdiction was once higher,” BJP nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh stated.

    The BJP-led central govt in 2021 had amended the BSF Act to authorise the pressure to adopt seek, seizure and arrest inside a 50-km stretch, as an alternative of 15 km, from the global border in Punjab, West Bengal and Assam. This had snowballed into a big political factor in Bengal, with the ruling TMC passing a answer within the state meeting opposing the Centre’s choice.

    (With further inputs from PTI)

    KOLKATA: Kicking off her marketing campaign for the panchayat polls after 15 years and for the primary time since her birthday celebration got here to energy in West Bengal in 2011 Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated the nexus between the CPI(M), Congress and the BJP within the upcoming rural elections gets washed away by way of the decision of the citizens.

    “We’re looking to shape a grand alliance (Mahajot) in opposition to the BJP on the Centre. However the CPI (M) and Congress are looking to paintings with the BJP in Bengal. I will be able to wreck this unholy nexus in Bengal,” the TMC supremo stated whilst addressing a panchayat election rally right here on Monday.

    That is for the second one time within the final ten days that Banerjee has criticised the Congress and CPI (M) for having a tacit working out with the BJP.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Addressing a rally in Cooch Behar in north Bengal, the place the BJP made deep inroads within the 2019 normal elections, Mamata additionally centered the Border Safety Drive (BSF).

    “I’ve data that some BSF officers are visiting the border spaces, threatening citizens and forcing them to not vote. I will be able to ask folks to not be frightened of BSF’s ways and take part within the elections fearlessly,” she stated.

    Whilst relating to the alleged capturing of villagers by way of the BSF final yr, whom the border pressure claimed as smugglers, Banerjee stated, “Police will resort FIRs in such circumstances and the regulation will take its personal direction.”

    “They do not have the correct to shoot and kill any person. No person is above the regulation; it sort of feels killing folks within the Cooch Behar district has transform a norm,” she stated.

    She additionally asserted that “regulation and order is a state topic” and the Centre has no position in it.

    Her feedback evoked a pointy response from the BSF Guwahati Frontier, underneath whose jurisdiction Cooch Behar falls.

    In a strongly worded remark, it stated the allegations are “utterly baseless and a ways from the reality,” including that the BSF “hasn’t ever intimidated any border inhabitants or citizens within the bordering spaces for any explanation why.”

    “It’s to appraise that the allegations leveled in opposition to BSF by way of the CM West Bengal right through a rally at Cooch Behar, is completely baseless and a ways from the reality,” the discharge stated.

    It stated the BSF is a certified pressure entrusted with the duty of securing the global border of India, and “hasn’t ever intimidated any border inhabitants or citizens within the bordering spaces for any explanation why.”

    It identified that BSF workforce deployed for election responsibility are underneath the whole supervision of the native management.

    For his or her phase, Opposition events alleged that Mamata has begun campaigning for the agricultural polls as she is feeling the warmth of voter discontent. 

    The BJP, too, dubbed the executive minister’s allegation of the usage of the BSF to serve its political objective as baseless. “Such feedback are unacceptable and an insult to our safety forces. This displays the mindset of the TMC, which has been in opposition to the BSF since its jurisdiction was once higher,” BJP nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh stated.

    The BJP-led central govt in 2021 had amended the BSF Act to authorise the pressure to adopt seek, seizure and arrest inside a 50-km stretch, as an alternative of 15 km, from the global border in Punjab, West Bengal and Assam. This had snowballed into a big political factor in Bengal, with the ruling TMC passing a answer within the state meeting opposing the Centre’s choice.

    (With further inputs from PTI)

  • Violence continues forward of WB rural polls

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    KOLKATA:  A Trinamool Congress chief used to be shot lifeless in Purulia overdue on Thursday evening, taking the demise toll to 9 within the native frame polls-related violence. TMC’s the city president in Adra, Dhananjay Choubey, who used to be in his overdue 40s, used to be sitting out of doors his birthday party administrative center when 3 males driving a bike got here and opened hearth. 

    5 bullets have been pumped into his frame. He used to be taken to an area medical institution the place he used to be declared lifeless on arrival. “We recognized the assassins and two of them have been arrested,” stated a police officer. Native Congress chief Nepal Mahato stated there must be an unbiased investigation. “The homicide is condemnable. If vital, the CBI could also be engaged to determine the true killers,” he stated.

    The police have arrested two Congress employees in reference to the fatal assault in Purulia. Ever for the reason that single-phase elections to the native our bodies have been introduced on June 9, violence has persisted unabated within the state. Unabated violence forward of the agricultural polls has caused a face-off between Governor C V Ananda Bose and the ruling TMC. 

    Bose had visited the strife-hit Bhangar house in South 24 Parganas the place 3 individuals have been killed right through violence at the closing day for filing nominations on June 15. Reacting to violence within the state, Bose stated: “Victory relies on the rely of votes, now not lifeless our bodies.”

    Hitting again, the TMC accused the governor of intervening within the rural polls. “The governor is overstepping his constitutional rights,” TMC’s spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated. On Friday, a senior professional of the State Election Fee (SEC) stated the Union House ministry sanctioned 315 corporations of Central Armed Paramilitary Pressure (CAPF) to be deployed for the approaching rural polls. 

    The state ballot panel requisitioned every other 485 corporations of CAPF for the agricultural polls. The state ballot panel, after being slammed by way of the Calcutta Top Courtroom, sought 800 further corporations of CAPF. Previous, the SEC had requested for most effective 22 corporations of CAPF following a top court docket order directing to deploy central pressure in all 22 districts. 

    The SEC had moved the Perfect Courtroom to problem the top court docket’s order which used to be now not entertained. 
    BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar stated the BJP supporters, who have been at the run fearing assault by way of the TMC’s goons, began returning to their houses because the central pressure workforce began arriving within the state. “It’s not conceivable to ship 800 corporations of CAPF in a single cross,” he stated. 

    On Thursday, a confrontation broke out between the governor and CM Mamata Banerjee after the constitutional head of Bengal returned the becoming a member of document of state election commissioner Rajiv Sinha, casting a shadow at the continuation of the state ballot panel head.  Mamata, prior to leaving for Patna to wait an Opposition assembly, stated the state ballot panel head can’t be got rid of on whims and fancies.

    KOLKATA:  A Trinamool Congress chief used to be shot lifeless in Purulia overdue on Thursday evening, taking the demise toll to 9 within the native frame polls-related violence. TMC’s the city president in Adra, Dhananjay Choubey, who used to be in his overdue 40s, used to be sitting out of doors his birthday party administrative center when 3 males driving a bike got here and opened hearth. 

    5 bullets have been pumped into his frame. He used to be taken to an area medical institution the place he used to be declared lifeless on arrival. “We recognized the assassins and two of them have been arrested,” stated a police officer. Native Congress chief Nepal Mahato stated there must be an unbiased investigation. “The homicide is condemnable. If vital, the CBI could also be engaged to determine the true killers,” he stated.

    The police have arrested two Congress employees in reference to the fatal assault in Purulia. Ever for the reason that single-phase elections to the native our bodies have been introduced on June 9, violence has persisted unabated within the state. Unabated violence forward of the agricultural polls has caused a face-off between Governor C V Ananda Bose and the ruling TMC. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Bose had visited the strife-hit Bhangar house in South 24 Parganas the place 3 individuals have been killed right through violence at the closing day for filing nominations on June 15. Reacting to violence within the state, Bose stated: “Victory relies on the rely of votes, now not lifeless our bodies.”

    Hitting again, the TMC accused the governor of intervening within the rural polls. “The governor is overstepping his constitutional rights,” TMC’s spokesperson Kunal Ghosh stated. On Friday, a senior professional of the State Election Fee (SEC) stated the Union House ministry sanctioned 315 corporations of Central Armed Paramilitary Pressure (CAPF) to be deployed for the approaching rural polls. 

    The state ballot panel requisitioned every other 485 corporations of CAPF for the agricultural polls. The state ballot panel, after being slammed by way of the Calcutta Top Courtroom, sought 800 further corporations of CAPF. Previous, the SEC had requested for most effective 22 corporations of CAPF following a top court docket order directing to deploy central pressure in all 22 districts. 

    The SEC had moved the Perfect Courtroom to problem the top court docket’s order which used to be now not entertained. 
    BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar stated the BJP supporters, who have been at the run fearing assault by way of the TMC’s goons, began returning to their houses because the central pressure workforce began arriving within the state. “It’s not conceivable to ship 800 corporations of CAPF in a single cross,” he stated. 

    On Thursday, a confrontation broke out between the governor and CM Mamata Banerjee after the constitutional head of Bengal returned the becoming a member of document of state election commissioner Rajiv Sinha, casting a shadow at the continuation of the state ballot panel head.  Mamata, prior to leaving for Patna to wait an Opposition assembly, stated the state ballot panel head can’t be got rid of on whims and fancies.

  • ‘Other folks in state of concern’: Bengal Governor slams ballot panel over violence forward of rural elections

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    KOLKATA: The bonhomie between West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose and Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, which used to be noticed in a while after the previous entered Raj Bhavan and assumed place of job in November ultimate yr, appears to be tapering off. The face-off between them reached its top on Thursday over the problem of the position performed via the State Election Fee (SEC) and its leader forward of the panchayat elections in Bengal.

    Bose, overdue on Wednesday night time, returned state election commissioner Rajiva Sinha’s becoming a member of document casting a shadow at the continuation of the state ballot panel head.

    A confrontation between the 2 erupted when Bose, refusing to just accept state election commissioner’s becoming a member of document, expressed his “sadness” amid murmurs of removing of the state election commissioner and Mamata mentioned the state ballot panel head can’t be got rid of on whims and fancies.

    Announcing that Sinha’s removing is a “bulky procedure”, Mamata mentioned, “State Election Commissioner can’t be got rid of identical to that. He used to be appointed after the governor licensed it. He can’t be got rid of simply on the drop of hat. The removing procedure is fairly bulky, identical to disposing of judges thru impeachment,” prior to leaving for Patna to wait a gathering of opposition events.  

    “By no means ever has the ballot procedure in Bengal been so non violent. It is cadres of our birthday celebration who’ve been killed. There were incidents in 3 to 4 cubicles and armed with that, some individuals are maligning Bengal,” she alleged.

    Bose mentioned that he had appointed Sinha because the SEC head trusting that he would habits the election procedure in a loose and truthful method. He added that right through the elections the Commissioner has energy over the police and magistrates. “The Election Fee will have to now not handiest be independent however will have to even be gave the impression to be independent. Caesar’s spouse should be above suspicion”, he added.

    ALSO READ | HC orders Bengal ballot panel to deploy 82K team of workers from central forces for rural elections

    Lambasting the state ballot panel, Bose on Thursday blamed it for the violence right through the panchayat polls within the state, announcing it used to be in control of each and every drop of human blood this is shed within the box.

    “Persons are disenchanted via the obvious inactiveness from the Election Fee. Persons are in a state of concern. In fact I can now not say there’s violence far and wide. However there’s violence and the truth that there’s violence can’t be denied,” the Governor mentioned.

    After a chain of run-ins between his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Mamata, the equation between Raj Bhavan and the West Bengal executive became a brand new leaf as Bose praised Mamata and shared cordial ties along with her.

    Praising her after she gained her 2d doctorate of literature (DLitt) from St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata in February, Bose had mentioned, “This isn’t for her political acumen. For that she has gained equivalent awards from the folks’s college. It is a popularity for her pursuit of excellence in literature, in portray, in poetry.”

    Appearing at the Calcutta Top Court docket’s order, the SEC requisitioned 800 firms of central forces on Thursday, transferring from its requisition for 22 firms. The state ballot panel gained a jolt within the Ideal Court docket when it challenged the Calcutta Top Court docket’s order directing the state panel to deploy central forces around the state.

    KOLKATA: The bonhomie between West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose and Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, which used to be noticed in a while after the previous entered Raj Bhavan and assumed place of job in November ultimate yr, appears to be tapering off. The face-off between them reached its top on Thursday over the problem of the position performed via the State Election Fee (SEC) and its leader forward of the panchayat elections in Bengal.

    Bose, overdue on Wednesday night time, returned state election commissioner Rajiva Sinha’s becoming a member of document casting a shadow at the continuation of the state ballot panel head.

    A confrontation between the 2 erupted when Bose, refusing to just accept state election commissioner’s becoming a member of document, expressed his “sadness” amid murmurs of removing of the state election commissioner and Mamata mentioned the state ballot panel head can’t be got rid of on whims and fancies.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Announcing that Sinha’s removing is a “bulky procedure”, Mamata mentioned, “State Election Commissioner can’t be got rid of identical to that. He used to be appointed after the governor licensed it. He can’t be got rid of simply on the drop of hat. The removing procedure is fairly bulky, identical to disposing of judges thru impeachment,” prior to leaving for Patna to wait a gathering of opposition events.  

    “By no means ever has the ballot procedure in Bengal been so non violent. It is cadres of our birthday celebration who’ve been killed. There were incidents in 3 to 4 cubicles and armed with that, some individuals are maligning Bengal,” she alleged.

    Bose mentioned that he had appointed Sinha because the SEC head trusting that he would habits the election procedure in a loose and truthful method. He added that right through the elections the Commissioner has energy over the police and magistrates. “The Election Fee will have to now not handiest be independent however will have to even be gave the impression to be independent. Caesar’s spouse should be above suspicion”, he added.

    ALSO READ | HC orders Bengal ballot panel to deploy 82K team of workers from central forces for rural elections

    Lambasting the state ballot panel, Bose on Thursday blamed it for the violence right through the panchayat polls within the state, announcing it used to be in control of each and every drop of human blood this is shed within the box.

    “Persons are disenchanted via the obvious inactiveness from the Election Fee. Persons are in a state of concern. In fact I can now not say there’s violence far and wide. However there’s violence and the truth that there’s violence can’t be denied,” the Governor mentioned.

    After a chain of run-ins between his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Mamata, the equation between Raj Bhavan and the West Bengal executive became a brand new leaf as Bose praised Mamata and shared cordial ties along with her.

    Praising her after she gained her 2d doctorate of literature (DLitt) from St. Xavier’s College in Kolkata in February, Bose had mentioned, “This isn’t for her political acumen. For that she has gained equivalent awards from the folks’s college. It is a popularity for her pursuit of excellence in literature, in portray, in poetry.”

    Appearing at the Calcutta Top Court docket’s order, the SEC requisitioned 800 firms of central forces on Thursday, transferring from its requisition for 22 firms. The state ballot panel gained a jolt within the Ideal Court docket when it challenged the Calcutta Top Court docket’s order directing the state panel to deploy central forces around the state.

  • Mamata ‘‘surprised’ at Governor’s unilateral announcement of Bengal’s basis day

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose expressed “surprise” at his “unilateral” choice to commemorate the state’s basis day on Tuesday.

    Banerjee stated that the ache and trauma of partition used to be such that folks within the state have by no means honored any day as basis day since India’s independence.

    “”I’m surprised and surprised to understand that you’ve determined to organise a programme on 20.06.2023 at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, commemorating what you could have peculiarly selected to explain because the ‘State Basis of West Bengal,”” Banerjee stated within the letter to Bose on Monday.

    She stated that all the way through a telephonic dialogue previous within the day, Bose had admitted {that a} “unilateral and non-consultative choice” to claim an afternoon because the state’s Basis Day isn’t warranted.

    Banerjee additionally identified that West Bengal used to be “carved out of the undivided state of Bengal in 1947 via a maximum painful and stressful procedure, which concerned uprooting of thousands and thousands of folks around the border and demise and displacement of innumerable households.

    “”Since Independence, we in West Bengal have by no means had a good time over, or honored, or celebrated, any day because the Basis Day of West Bengal. Quite, we’ve got noticed the Partition because of unleashing of communal forces that would no longer be resisted at that time of time,”” she stated.

    Banerjee additionally wrote that folks were born and taken up right here and feature by no means honored any State Basis Day for the aforesaid causes.

    “If an tournament is performed at Raj Bhavan, it “would possibly at very best be a programme of a political birthday celebration, pushed via vendetta, however no longer of the folks or its Executive,”” the executive minister stated.

    ““The state used to be no longer based on any specific day, least of all on any twentieth of June. Contrarily, the State used to be shaped in the course of the notorious Radcliffe Award,”” the letter learn.

    On June 20, 1947, two conferences of separate units of legislators within the Bengal Meeting have been held.

    A type of who sought after West Bengal as a part of India, voted in favour of the answer via a majority.

    The opposite used to be of legislators of spaces which ultimately turned into East Pakistan.

    For the district of Sylhet which used to be a part of Assam, it used to be determined to habits a referendum.

    Just about 2.5 million folks have been displaced from either side and homes price crores of rupees burnt down in post-partition rioting.

    The British Parliament handed the India Independence Act on July 15, 1947, with none readability at the borders of the 2 states being torn aside – Bengal and Punjab.

    On August 9 of that yr, a joint remark used to be issued via outgoing Premier of Bengal HS Suharawardy And incoming Premiers of West Bengal and East Bengal, PC Ghosh and Khwaja Nazimuddin respectively, interesting for a calm and orderly transition and pointing out that barriers of the Dominions don’t seem to be but mounted.

    The Cyril Radcliffe Boundary Fee award demarcating the borders used to be made public on August 17, two days after the formal announcement of independence.

    A ‘Peace Run’ via NCC cadets and a Take a seat and Draw tournament via college youngsters can be held at the instance.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose expressed “surprise” at his “unilateral” choice to commemorate the state’s basis day on Tuesday.

    Banerjee stated that the ache and trauma of partition used to be such that folks within the state have by no means honored any day as basis day since India’s independence.

    “”I’m surprised and surprised to understand that you’ve determined to organise a programme on 20.06.2023 at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, commemorating what you could have peculiarly selected to explain because the ‘State Basis of West Bengal,”” Banerjee stated within the letter to Bose on Monday. googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-1687167573941-0′); );

    She stated that all the way through a telephonic dialogue previous within the day, Bose had admitted {that a} “unilateral and non-consultative choice” to claim an afternoon because the state’s Basis Day isn’t warranted.

    Banerjee additionally identified that West Bengal used to be “carved out of the undivided state of Bengal in 1947 via a maximum painful and stressful procedure, which concerned uprooting of thousands and thousands of folks around the border and demise and displacement of innumerable households.

    “”Since Independence, we in West Bengal have by no means had a good time over, or honored, or celebrated, any day because the Basis Day of West Bengal. Quite, we’ve got noticed the Partition because of unleashing of communal forces that would no longer be resisted at that time of time,”” she stated.

    Banerjee additionally wrote that folks were born and taken up right here and feature by no means honored any State Basis Day for the aforesaid causes.

    “If an tournament is performed at Raj Bhavan, it “would possibly at very best be a programme of a political birthday celebration, pushed via vendetta, however no longer of the folks or its Executive,”” the executive minister stated.

    ““The state used to be no longer based on any specific day, least of all on any twentieth of June. Contrarily, the State used to be shaped in the course of the notorious Radcliffe Award,”” the letter learn.

    On June 20, 1947, two conferences of separate units of legislators within the Bengal Meeting have been held.

    A type of who sought after West Bengal as a part of India, voted in favour of the answer via a majority.

    The opposite used to be of legislators of spaces which ultimately turned into East Pakistan.

    For the district of Sylhet which used to be a part of Assam, it used to be determined to habits a referendum.

    Just about 2.5 million folks have been displaced from either side and homes price crores of rupees burnt down in post-partition rioting.

    The British Parliament handed the India Independence Act on July 15, 1947, with none readability at the borders of the 2 states being torn aside – Bengal and Punjab.

    On August 9 of that yr, a joint remark used to be issued via outgoing Premier of Bengal HS Suharawardy And incoming Premiers of West Bengal and East Bengal, PC Ghosh and Khwaja Nazimuddin respectively, interesting for a calm and orderly transition and pointing out that barriers of the Dominions don’t seem to be but mounted.

    The Cyril Radcliffe Boundary Fee award demarcating the borders used to be made public on August 17, two days after the formal announcement of independence.

    A ‘Peace Run’ via NCC cadets and a Take a seat and Draw tournament via college youngsters can be held at the instance.

  • Mamata ‘stunned’ at Governor’s unilateral announcement of Bengal’s basis day

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose expressed “surprise” at his “unilateral” determination to commemorate the state’s basis day on Tuesday.
    Banerjee identified that the ache and trauma of partition used to be such, that individuals within the state have by no means venerated any day as basis day since India’s independence.

    “I’m shocked and stunned to understand that you’ve got made up our minds to organise a programme on 20.06.2023 at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, commemorating what you have got peculiarly selected to explain because the State Basis of West Bengal’,” Banerjee stated within the letter to Bose on Monday.

    She stated that right through a telephonic dialogue previous within the day, Bose had admitted {that a} “unilateral and non-consultative determination” to claim an afternoon because the state’s Basis Day isn’t warranted. Banerjee additionally identified that West Bengal used to be “carved out of the undivided State of Bengal in 1947 via a maximum painful and annoying procedure. The method concerned uprooting of hundreds of thousands of other folks around the border and loss of life and displacement of innumerable households.”

    “Since Independence, we in West Bengal have by no means had a good time over, or venerated, or celebrated, any day because the Basis Day of West Bengal. Slightly, we now have noticed the Partition because of unleashing of communal forces that would now not be resisted at that time of time,” she stated.

    Banerjee additionally wrote that individuals were born and taken up right here and feature by no means venerated any State Basis Day for the aforesaid causes. If an match is carried out at Raj Bhavan, it “might at very best be a programme of a political celebration, pushed by way of vendetta, however now not of the folk or its Govt,” the executive minister stated.

    “The state used to be now not based on any explicit day, least of all on any twentieth of June. Contrarily, the State used to be shaped throughout the notorious Radcliffe Award,” the letter learn. On June 20, 1947, two conferences of separate units of legislators within the Bengal Meeting had been held. A kind of who sought after West Bengal as a part of India, voted in favour of the answer by way of a majority. The opposite used to be of legislators of spaces which ultimately turned into East Pakistan.

    For the district of Sylhet which used to be a part of Assam, it used to be made up our minds to behavior a referendum.
    Just about 2.5 million other folks had been displaced from each side and homes value crores of rupees burnt down in post-partition rioting.

    The British Parliament handed the India Independence Act on July 15, 1947, with none readability at the borders of the 2 states being torn aside – Bengal and Punjab.

    On August 9 of that 12 months, a joint commentary used to be issued by way of outgoing Premier of Bengal HS Suharawardy And incoming Premiers of West Bengal and East Bengal, PC Ghosh and Khwaja Nazimuddin respectively, interesting for a calm and orderly transition and pointing out that barriers of the Dominions don’t seem to be but mounted.

    The Cyril Radcliffe Boundary Fee award demarcating the borders used to be made public on August 17, two days after the formal announcement of independence.

    A Peace Run’ by way of NCC cadets and a Take a seat and Draw match by way of faculty youngsters may also be held at the instance.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee in a letter to Governor CV Ananda Bose expressed “surprise” at his “unilateral” determination to commemorate the state’s basis day on Tuesday.
    Banerjee identified that the ache and trauma of partition used to be such, that individuals within the state have by no means venerated any day as basis day since India’s independence.

    “I’m shocked and stunned to understand that you’ve got made up our minds to organise a programme on 20.06.2023 at Raj Bhavan, Kolkata, commemorating what you have got peculiarly selected to explain because the State Basis of West Bengal’,” Banerjee stated within the letter to Bose on Monday.

    She stated that right through a telephonic dialogue previous within the day, Bose had admitted {that a} “unilateral and non-consultative determination” to claim an afternoon because the state’s Basis Day isn’t warranted. Banerjee additionally identified that West Bengal used to be “carved out of the undivided State of Bengal in 1947 via a maximum painful and annoying procedure. The method concerned uprooting of hundreds of thousands of other folks around the border and loss of life and displacement of innumerable households.” googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-1687167573941-0′); );

    “Since Independence, we in West Bengal have by no means had a good time over, or venerated, or celebrated, any day because the Basis Day of West Bengal. Slightly, we now have noticed the Partition because of unleashing of communal forces that would now not be resisted at that time of time,” she stated.

    Banerjee additionally wrote that individuals were born and taken up right here and feature by no means venerated any State Basis Day for the aforesaid causes. If an match is carried out at Raj Bhavan, it “might at very best be a programme of a political celebration, pushed by way of vendetta, however now not of the folk or its Govt,” the executive minister stated.

    “The state used to be now not based on any explicit day, least of all on any twentieth of June. Contrarily, the State used to be shaped throughout the notorious Radcliffe Award,” the letter learn. On June 20, 1947, two conferences of separate units of legislators within the Bengal Meeting had been held. A kind of who sought after West Bengal as a part of India, voted in favour of the answer by way of a majority. The opposite used to be of legislators of spaces which ultimately turned into East Pakistan.

    For the district of Sylhet which used to be a part of Assam, it used to be made up our minds to behavior a referendum.
    Just about 2.5 million other folks had been displaced from each side and homes value crores of rupees burnt down in post-partition rioting.

    The British Parliament handed the India Independence Act on July 15, 1947, with none readability at the borders of the 2 states being torn aside – Bengal and Punjab.

    On August 9 of that 12 months, a joint commentary used to be issued by way of outgoing Premier of Bengal HS Suharawardy And incoming Premiers of West Bengal and East Bengal, PC Ghosh and Khwaja Nazimuddin respectively, interesting for a calm and orderly transition and pointing out that barriers of the Dominions don’t seem to be but mounted.

    The Cyril Radcliffe Boundary Fee award demarcating the borders used to be made public on August 17, two days after the formal announcement of independence.
    A Peace Run’ by way of NCC cadets and a Take a seat and Draw match by way of faculty youngsters may also be held at the instance.

  • Odisha educate crash: Intense political slugfest breaks out between TMC, BJP

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    KOLKATA: Slightly 48 hours after the Balasore tragedy, an intense political slugfest between the West Bengal’s ruling celebration Trinamool Congress and the BJP broke out on Sunday as leader minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Centre alleging the federal government will have to habits an investigation to determine the explanation in the back of the mishap as a substitute of spreading false data to malign her symbol.

    Seventeen coaches have been derailed and critically broken within the triple educate crash in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday evening, killing a minimum of 275 other folks and injuring over 1,100 up to now.

    With out losing Top Minister Narendra Modi’s title, Mamata mentioned he’s busy glorifying his title through setting up the brand new Parliament construction and stadium.

    Mamata’s assault at the Centre got here in a while after railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Sunday, refuted her concept that the mishap will have been avoided had the anti-collision tool been in position. Banerjee discussed that the tool were presented all the way through her 2nd stint because the Union Railway Minister between 2009 and 2011.

    “Kavach or what Mamata Banerjee instructed the day before today has no hyperlink with the mishap. Initial investigation suggests it was once as a result of an digital interlocking gadget. The precise reason why can also be ascertained after the final touch of the investigation,” mentioned Vaishnaw.

    Requested about it, Mamata mentioned, “After I discussed in regards to the anti-collision tool the day before today status beside the railway minister, why didn’t he open his mouth? As a substitute, his frame language gave a nod to my declare. Different BJP leaders have been provide there however none of them objected to my good judgment. Now the railways are bobbing up with two variations — interlocking and signalling problems. There should be one thing mistaken that must be investigated.”

    Despite the fact that the Bengal CM time and again mentioned it was once now not the time for doing politics over the problem of the Balasore mishap, she made it transparent that she is being pressured to factor such statements to counter BJP’s assault circulating false data.

    ALSO READ | Odisha educate crash: Officers say Coromandel Categorical wasn’t over-speeding 

    Terming the Balasore mishap as the most important tragedy caused through negligence, Bengal CM, with out losing the Top Minister’s title, mentioned, “you will have apologised after the twist of fate. However you might be busy glorifying your title through setting up the brand new Parliament construction and stadium to your title As a substitute of engaging in a probe into the mishap, you might be enjoying a grimy nuisance recreation to malign a former railway minister.”

    “I won a message citing the choice of deaths in injuries all the way through the tenure of me and Nitish Kumar as railway minister. The message says greater than 3,000 individuals died all the way through my stint as railway minister which is a blatant lie,” she mentioned.

    Mamata gave a listing of educate injuries with loss of life toll get a divorce which confirmed 309 individuals died in 5 rail injuries all the way through her stint because the railway minister from 1999 to 2000 and 2009 to 2011.

    “Such false data is being circulated intentionally. The federal government of India is doing what they need to do. They may be able to alternate any quantity. I need to understand how many died within the Godhra educate bloodbath?  I need to know who set the operating educate on fireplace in Godhra?” Mamata fumed.

    ALSO READ | Congress calls for Ashwini Vaishnaw’s resignation over Odisha rail tragedy

    She mentioned that 62 sufferers have up to now been recognized from West Bengal and 206 individuals are admitted to hospitals within the state. Saying Rs 5 lakh repayment for each and every sufferer’s circle of relatives, Mamata mentioned, “182 deceased are but to be recognized and the loss of life toll from Bengal will upward thrust as soon as the our bodies can be recognized.”

    In the meantime, BJP MLA and West Bengal’s Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari visited the twist of fate spot on Sunday and hit out at Mamata and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who had demanded the resignation of Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday.

    “Bengal fails to supply elementary healthcare amenities and for this reason such a lot of other folks go back and forth in trains like Coromandel Categorical for higher remedy in Odisha and different states in south India. This the similar reason why this was once why Abhishek Banerjee flew to america for remedy of his eye whilst our President of India went to the Military’s sanatorium for a similar remedy. How did Mamata come to grasp that an anti-collision tool was once now not provide at the educate?” requested Adhikari.

    KOLKATA: Slightly 48 hours after the Balasore tragedy, an intense political slugfest between the West Bengal’s ruling celebration Trinamool Congress and the BJP broke out on Sunday as leader minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Centre alleging the federal government will have to habits an investigation to determine the explanation in the back of the mishap as a substitute of spreading false data to malign her symbol.

    Seventeen coaches have been derailed and critically broken within the triple educate crash in Odisha’s Balasore district on Friday evening, killing a minimum of 275 other folks and injuring over 1,100 up to now.

    With out losing Top Minister Narendra Modi’s title, Mamata mentioned he’s busy glorifying his title through setting up the brand new Parliament construction and stadium.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    Mamata’s assault at the Centre got here in a while after railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, on Sunday, refuted her concept that the mishap will have been avoided had the anti-collision tool been in position. Banerjee discussed that the tool were presented all the way through her 2nd stint because the Union Railway Minister between 2009 and 2011.

    “Kavach or what Mamata Banerjee instructed the day before today has no hyperlink with the mishap. Initial investigation suggests it was once as a result of an digital interlocking gadget. The precise reason why can also be ascertained after the final touch of the investigation,” mentioned Vaishnaw.

    Requested about it, Mamata mentioned, “After I discussed in regards to the anti-collision tool the day before today status beside the railway minister, why didn’t he open his mouth? As a substitute, his frame language gave a nod to my declare. Different BJP leaders have been provide there however none of them objected to my good judgment. Now the railways are bobbing up with two variations — interlocking and signalling problems. There should be one thing mistaken that must be investigated.”

    Despite the fact that the Bengal CM time and again mentioned it was once now not the time for doing politics over the problem of the Balasore mishap, she made it transparent that she is being pressured to factor such statements to counter BJP’s assault circulating false data.

    ALSO READ | Odisha educate crash: Officers say Coromandel Categorical wasn’t over-speeding 

    Terming the Balasore mishap as the most important tragedy caused through negligence, Bengal CM, with out losing the Top Minister’s title, mentioned, “you will have apologised after the twist of fate. However you might be busy glorifying your title through setting up the brand new Parliament construction and stadium to your title As a substitute of engaging in a probe into the mishap, you might be enjoying a grimy nuisance recreation to malign a former railway minister.”

    “I won a message citing the choice of deaths in injuries all the way through the tenure of me and Nitish Kumar as railway minister. The message says greater than 3,000 individuals died all the way through my stint as railway minister which is a blatant lie,” she mentioned.

    Mamata gave a listing of educate injuries with loss of life toll get a divorce which confirmed 309 individuals died in 5 rail injuries all the way through her stint because the railway minister from 1999 to 2000 and 2009 to 2011.

    “Such false data is being circulated intentionally. The federal government of India is doing what they need to do. They may be able to alternate any quantity. I need to understand how many died within the Godhra educate bloodbath?  I need to know who set the operating educate on fireplace in Godhra?” Mamata fumed.

    ALSO READ | Congress calls for Ashwini Vaishnaw’s resignation over Odisha rail tragedy

    She mentioned that 62 sufferers have up to now been recognized from West Bengal and 206 individuals are admitted to hospitals within the state. Saying Rs 5 lakh repayment for each and every sufferer’s circle of relatives, Mamata mentioned, “182 deceased are but to be recognized and the loss of life toll from Bengal will upward thrust as soon as the our bodies can be recognized.”

    In the meantime, BJP MLA and West Bengal’s Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari visited the twist of fate spot on Sunday and hit out at Mamata and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who had demanded the resignation of Ashwini Vaishnaw on Saturday.

    “Bengal fails to supply elementary healthcare amenities and for this reason such a lot of other folks go back and forth in trains like Coromandel Categorical for higher remedy in Odisha and different states in south India. This the similar reason why this was once why Abhishek Banerjee flew to america for remedy of his eye whilst our President of India went to the Military’s sanatorium for a similar remedy. How did Mamata come to grasp that an anti-collision tool was once now not provide at the educate?” requested Adhikari.

  • Mamata assures beef up to Kejriwal in battle towards ordinance on keep an eye on of products and services in Delhi

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday confident her counterpart from Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, that her birthday celebration would beef up him in his battle towards the Central ordinance to keep an eye on appointments and switch of bureaucrats in that city-state.

    After a just about hour-long assembly right here, Banerjee informed newspersons {that a} imminent vote in Rajya Sabha on a invoice to transform the central ordinance on keep an eye on of products and services in Delhi into legislation, can be a “semi-final sooner than the 2024 elections.”

    Kejriwal who got here to Kolkata at the side of Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann as a part of a national excursion to garner beef up for his battle additionally introduced an assault towards the BJP.

    He alleged the saffron birthday celebration “buys MLAs, makes use of CBI, ED to take a look at to damage” opposition governments, but even so the usage of Governors to disturb non-BJP governments equivalent to “Bengal and Punjab.”

    Banerjee informed newspersons, “We beef up AAP within the battle towards the Central ordinance. Request all events to not vote for BJP’s legislation (on controlling appointments in Delhi)”.

    She additionally mentioned, “I request all events to not vote for BJP’s legislation (on controlling appointments in Delhi). This (contest within the Parliament) can be a semi-final sooner than the 2024 elections.”

    The feisty TMC chief additionally quipped “The double engine (BJP rule in each state and centre) has turn out to be a engine.”

    READ HERE | ‘Political tourism of PM aspirants has began forward of 2024’: BJP on Kejriwal-Mamata meet

    Kejriwal and Mann additionally grew to become the impromptu press convention held after the assembly of the 2 leaders, into an assault at the BJP and central executive.

    The AAP chief and Delhi leader minister mentioned “BJP has made a mockery of democracy — the place it can’t shape a central authority, it buys MLAs, makes use of CBI, ED to take a look at to damage the federal government. Governors to disturb non-BJP governments equivalent to Bengal and Punjab”.

    The bone of competition between the AAP executive and the BJP has been the Central executive ordinance putting in place a Nationwide Capital Civil Provider Authority which overturned a Splendid Court docket order final week giving keep an eye on of products and services, with the exception of the ones associated with police, public order and land, to the elected executive in Delhi.

    The brand new ordinance takes away those powers from the Delhi state executive and provides them to a committee which might be successfully managed through the Centre.

    A central legislation needs to be introduced to interchange the ordinance and opposition events are hoping to stall that within the higher space or Rajya Sabha when it comes up for debate.

    The AAP has already sought the beef up of all non-BJP events pronouncing it is a “time for agni pariksha” for opposition events, and that they must come in combination in the event that they wish to save the rustic’s democracy and Charter.

    Kejriwal has previous met Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar over the ordinance factor and the latter has prolonged complete beef up to AAP in its tussle with the Centre at the topic.

    The AAP leader may be more likely to meet Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday in Mumbai.

    The ordinance needs to be ratified through Parliament inside of six months.

    For which, the Centre should convey a invoice for its passage in each Properties of Parliament, the opposition hopes.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday confident her counterpart from Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, that her birthday celebration would beef up him in his battle towards the Central ordinance to keep an eye on appointments and switch of bureaucrats in that city-state.

    After a just about hour-long assembly right here, Banerjee informed newspersons {that a} imminent vote in Rajya Sabha on a invoice to transform the central ordinance on keep an eye on of products and services in Delhi into legislation, can be a “semi-final sooner than the 2024 elections.”

    Kejriwal who got here to Kolkata at the side of Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann as a part of a national excursion to garner beef up for his battle additionally introduced an assault towards the BJP.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    He alleged the saffron birthday celebration “buys MLAs, makes use of CBI, ED to take a look at to damage” opposition governments, but even so the usage of Governors to disturb non-BJP governments equivalent to “Bengal and Punjab.”

    Banerjee informed newspersons, “We beef up AAP within the battle towards the Central ordinance. Request all events to not vote for BJP’s legislation (on controlling appointments in Delhi)”.

    She additionally mentioned, “I request all events to not vote for BJP’s legislation (on controlling appointments in Delhi). This (contest within the Parliament) can be a semi-final sooner than the 2024 elections.”

    The feisty TMC chief additionally quipped “The double engine (BJP rule in each state and centre) has turn out to be a engine.”

    READ HERE | ‘Political tourism of PM aspirants has began forward of 2024’: BJP on Kejriwal-Mamata meet

    Kejriwal and Mann additionally grew to become the impromptu press convention held after the assembly of the 2 leaders, into an assault at the BJP and central executive.

    The AAP chief and Delhi leader minister mentioned “BJP has made a mockery of democracy — the place it can’t shape a central authority, it buys MLAs, makes use of CBI, ED to take a look at to damage the federal government. Governors to disturb non-BJP governments equivalent to Bengal and Punjab”.

    The bone of competition between the AAP executive and the BJP has been the Central executive ordinance putting in place a Nationwide Capital Civil Provider Authority which overturned a Splendid Court docket order final week giving keep an eye on of products and services, with the exception of the ones associated with police, public order and land, to the elected executive in Delhi.

    The brand new ordinance takes away those powers from the Delhi state executive and provides them to a committee which might be successfully managed through the Centre.

    A central legislation needs to be introduced to interchange the ordinance and opposition events are hoping to stall that within the higher space or Rajya Sabha when it comes up for debate.

    The AAP has already sought the beef up of all non-BJP events pronouncing it is a “time for agni pariksha” for opposition events, and that they must come in combination in the event that they wish to save the rustic’s democracy and Charter.

    Kejriwal has previous met Bihar Leader Minister Nitish Kumar over the ordinance factor and the latter has prolonged complete beef up to AAP in its tussle with the Centre at the topic.

    The AAP leader may be more likely to meet Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Wednesday in Mumbai.

    The ordinance needs to be ratified through Parliament inside of six months.

    For which, the Centre should convey a invoice for its passage in each Properties of Parliament, the opposition hopes.

  • Bengal CM Mamata renews name for Opposition team spirit in 2024

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    KOLKATA:  West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reiterated her stand on Opposition team spirit, pronouncing there will have to be a one-to-one struggle in opposition to the BJP to overthrow it from the Centre.

    “All Opposition events should unite. Let’s do a one-to-one struggle in opposition to BJP. Whoever is robust in a space, will have to struggle from there. I will be able to be at liberty if BJP’s downfall begins from Karnataka elections, scheduled to be held this month,” mentioned Mamata addressing a rally at Shamsherganj in Murshidabad. 

    The executive minister visited the spaces suffering from erosion at the banks of river Ganga. She alleged the Centre isn’t paying Bengal’s dues as a part of a political vendetta.

    “The Centre is not going to give us finances until the 2024 elections as a result of now we have been combating in opposition to the BJP,” Mamata mentioned. She additionally slammed the Central executive over the alleged misuse of businesses in opposition to Opposition events. 

    “The BJP has two issues to mention. One is ‘Thok Do (shoot at) and after they ship central businesses, they inform them ‘Badnaam Kar Do (malign them). Officials of CBI and ED inform them that there is not any case, they inform them Badnaam Kar Do. Companies is not going to lend a hand them to fetch votes,” mentioned the Bengal CM.

    Mamata had lately met Opposition leaders, together with Samajwadi Birthday celebration leader Akhilesh Yadav, Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejaswi Yadav at Nabanna, the state secretariat, and had expressed her want for an Opposition assembly prior to the 2024 elections.

    After coming to energy for a 3rd instantly time period in Bengal in 2021, Mamata raised her voice at the factor of Opposition events’ team spirit to derail the BJP from the Centre.

    She additionally held a gathering with Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. However her courting with the Congress became bitter and it was public prior to the elections in Goa.

    Mamata obviously mentioned she would no longer settle for Opposition events’ team spirit below the management of Congress alleging the grand outdated birthday celebration did not retain its elected MLAs who defected to the BJP. She claimed TMC is the one political power which is able to defeat the BJP.

    However she stood by way of Rahul Gandhi after his Lok Sabha club used to be terminated and made it transparent that she had no reservations at the factor of Opposition team spirit involving the Congress.

    Mamata’s name for Opposition team spirit is alleged to be politically important within the backdrop of the by-election within the Sagardighi Meeting constituency in Murshidabad district the place Muslims represent 68 in step with cent of the citizens. Although the minority electorates are regarded as as Trinamool Congress’s vote financial institution, the Congress snatched the seat which the grand outdated birthday celebration misplaced within the 2011 Meeting elections.

    Reacting to her birthday celebration’s defeat, Mamata had mentioned the by-election outcome used to be an remoted incident.  

    “Congress, Left Entrance and BJP joined palms to struggle in opposition to the TMC. There is not any explanation why to consider that minority electorates are converting their political allegiance. From now, we will be able to struggle by myself in opposition to the BJP,” she had mentioned. 

    After the by-election, BJP MLA and Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari had mentioned the birthday celebration knew that it wouldn’t win the seat. “We contested within the by-election to defeat the TMC,” he had mentioned.

    KOLKATA:  West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday reiterated her stand on Opposition team spirit, pronouncing there will have to be a one-to-one struggle in opposition to the BJP to overthrow it from the Centre.

    “All Opposition events should unite. Let’s do a one-to-one struggle in opposition to BJP. Whoever is robust in a space, will have to struggle from there. I will be able to be at liberty if BJP’s downfall begins from Karnataka elections, scheduled to be held this month,” mentioned Mamata addressing a rally at Shamsherganj in Murshidabad. 

    The executive minister visited the spaces suffering from erosion at the banks of river Ganga. She alleged the Centre isn’t paying Bengal’s dues as a part of a political vendetta.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “The Centre is not going to give us finances until the 2024 elections as a result of now we have been combating in opposition to the BJP,” Mamata mentioned. She additionally slammed the Central executive over the alleged misuse of businesses in opposition to Opposition events. 

    “The BJP has two issues to mention. One is ‘Thok Do (shoot at) and after they ship central businesses, they inform them ‘Badnaam Kar Do (malign them). Officials of CBI and ED inform them that there is not any case, they inform them Badnaam Kar Do. Companies is not going to lend a hand them to fetch votes,” mentioned the Bengal CM.

    Mamata had lately met Opposition leaders, together with Samajwadi Birthday celebration leader Akhilesh Yadav, Bihar leader minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejaswi Yadav at Nabanna, the state secretariat, and had expressed her want for an Opposition assembly prior to the 2024 elections.

    After coming to energy for a 3rd instantly time period in Bengal in 2021, Mamata raised her voice at the factor of Opposition events’ team spirit to derail the BJP from the Centre.

    She additionally held a gathering with Sonia Gandhi in Delhi. However her courting with the Congress became bitter and it was public prior to the elections in Goa.

    Mamata obviously mentioned she would no longer settle for Opposition events’ team spirit below the management of Congress alleging the grand outdated birthday celebration did not retain its elected MLAs who defected to the BJP. She claimed TMC is the one political power which is able to defeat the BJP.

    However she stood by way of Rahul Gandhi after his Lok Sabha club used to be terminated and made it transparent that she had no reservations at the factor of Opposition team spirit involving the Congress.

    Mamata’s name for Opposition team spirit is alleged to be politically important within the backdrop of the by-election within the Sagardighi Meeting constituency in Murshidabad district the place Muslims represent 68 in step with cent of the citizens. Although the minority electorates are regarded as as Trinamool Congress’s vote financial institution, the Congress snatched the seat which the grand outdated birthday celebration misplaced within the 2011 Meeting elections.

    Reacting to her birthday celebration’s defeat, Mamata had mentioned the by-election outcome used to be an remoted incident.  

    “Congress, Left Entrance and BJP joined palms to struggle in opposition to the TMC. There is not any explanation why to consider that minority electorates are converting their political allegiance. From now, we will be able to struggle by myself in opposition to the BJP,” she had mentioned. 

    After the by-election, BJP MLA and Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari had mentioned the birthday celebration knew that it wouldn’t win the seat. “We contested within the by-election to defeat the TMC,” he had mentioned.

  • Armed guy storms into Bengal faculty to take scholars hostage, Mamata calls it a conspiracy

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    KOLKATA: In a spine-chilling incident, a person in his 40s stormed right into a highschool in Malda on Wednesday morning brandishing a pistol and entered a study room with the aim of taking scholars hostage, which Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee described as a conspiracy hatched in Delhi.

    The person, known as Dev Ballav, additionally positioned a petroleum bomb and a container stuffed with acid at the desk of the school room. On being alerted, police body of workers surrounded the college and a deputy superintendent of police pounced on Ballav and pinned him down. A seek printed every other pistol tucked within the guy’s waist.

    Initial investigation printed the person’s spouse is a BJP member of a Trinamool Congress ruled panchayat. Police are probing whether or not the person’s spouse had any dispute with the ruling celebration or the couple had any conjugal factor which would possibly have resulted in the incident.

    The incident came about round 11.30 am when categories have been happening as same old in Muchia Chandramohan Prime College in Previous Malda space. “Ballav, with a bag on his shoulder, entered the college disregarded. He went directly to a study room at the ground-floor and brandished a firearm. He threatened the instructor to prevent educating. Ballav then positioned the petrol-bomb and the acid container at the desk,” stated a police officer.

    Ballav took out a work of paper and began studying out how his lawsuits to better government within the management fell on deaf ears.

    On listening to the incident, police swung into motion briefly. Team of workers from the native police station rushed to the spot.

    “I moderately went with regards to the door of the school room. I noticed the nervous faded faces of the scholars. I were given married not too long ago and I wouldn’t have a kid. I may just no longer face up to myself and pounced at the guy and compelled him to lie at the surface. Quickly, different policemen got here to lend a hand me,” stated DSP Mohammad Azharuddin.

    Ballav used to be arrested and booked underneath the Fingers Act.

    Reacting to the incident, the West Bengal CM stated, “Conspiracies are being hatched from Delhi. I don’t know who’re in the back of it. I beg folks to be very cautious about it.”

    The police stated Ballav, all through the process interrogation, stated his spouse had left him together with her son and he complained to other layers of the state management. “We’re but to establish whether or not Ballav’s complaint is the rationale in the back of his act,” stated a police officer.

    KOLKATA: In a spine-chilling incident, a person in his 40s stormed right into a highschool in Malda on Wednesday morning brandishing a pistol and entered a study room with the aim of taking scholars hostage, which Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee described as a conspiracy hatched in Delhi.

    The person, known as Dev Ballav, additionally positioned a petroleum bomb and a container stuffed with acid at the desk of the school room. On being alerted, police body of workers surrounded the college and a deputy superintendent of police pounced on Ballav and pinned him down. A seek printed every other pistol tucked within the guy’s waist.

    Initial investigation printed the person’s spouse is a BJP member of a Trinamool Congress ruled panchayat. Police are probing whether or not the person’s spouse had any dispute with the ruling celebration or the couple had any conjugal factor which would possibly have resulted in the incident.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The incident came about round 11.30 am when categories have been happening as same old in Muchia Chandramohan Prime College in Previous Malda space. “Ballav, with a bag on his shoulder, entered the college disregarded. He went directly to a study room at the ground-floor and brandished a firearm. He threatened the instructor to prevent educating. Ballav then positioned the petrol-bomb and the acid container at the desk,” stated a police officer.

    Ballav took out a work of paper and began studying out how his lawsuits to better government within the management fell on deaf ears.

    On listening to the incident, police swung into motion briefly. Team of workers from the native police station rushed to the spot.

    “I moderately went with regards to the door of the school room. I noticed the nervous faded faces of the scholars. I were given married not too long ago and I wouldn’t have a kid. I may just no longer face up to myself and pounced at the guy and compelled him to lie at the surface. Quickly, different policemen got here to lend a hand me,” stated DSP Mohammad Azharuddin.

    Ballav used to be arrested and booked underneath the Fingers Act.

    Reacting to the incident, the West Bengal CM stated, “Conspiracies are being hatched from Delhi. I don’t know who’re in the back of it. I beg folks to be very cautious about it.”

    The police stated Ballav, all through the process interrogation, stated his spouse had left him together with her son and he complained to other layers of the state management. “We’re but to establish whether or not Ballav’s complaint is the rationale in the back of his act,” stated a police officer.