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  • Girl, brother-in-law significantly injured in blast in West Bengal

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: A lady and her brother-in-law had been significantly injured in a blast in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, police mentioned.

    The incident happened of their space in Ramnagar in Pipha gram panchayat house on Wednesday morning, during which Sonia Bibi and Rakibullah Mondal sustained critical accidents, a senior officer of Basirhat Police mentioned.

    Police claimed that it was once an LPG cylinder blast however locals alleged that the “ball”, with which {the teenager} was once enjoying after bringing it from a close-by floor, exploded, indicating at an unintended crude bomb blast.

    “The lady and her brother-in-law had been injured in what appears to be a cylinder blast, however now we have were given a distinct model from the locals and are probing the topic,” the officer mentioned, including that the injured are being handled at a close-by sanatorium.

    Panchayat elections usually are held within the state early subsequent yr.

    Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of smuggling fingers and ammunition and pumping cash into West Bengal from neighbouring states to create regulation and order problems forward of the agricultural polls.

    KOLKATA: A lady and her brother-in-law had been significantly injured in a blast in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Wednesday, police mentioned.

    The incident happened of their space in Ramnagar in Pipha gram panchayat house on Wednesday morning, during which Sonia Bibi and Rakibullah Mondal sustained critical accidents, a senior officer of Basirhat Police mentioned.

    Police claimed that it was once an LPG cylinder blast however locals alleged that the “ball”, with which {the teenager} was once enjoying after bringing it from a close-by floor, exploded, indicating at an unintended crude bomb blast.

    “The lady and her brother-in-law had been injured in what appears to be a cylinder blast, however now we have were given a distinct model from the locals and are probing the topic,” the officer mentioned, including that the injured are being handled at a close-by sanatorium.

    Panchayat elections usually are held within the state early subsequent yr.

    Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee has accused the BJP of smuggling fingers and ammunition and pumping cash into West Bengal from neighbouring states to create regulation and order problems forward of the agricultural polls.

  • Mamata more likely to formally announce 2 new districts on Tuesday

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee is anticipated to formally announce Sundarbans and Basirhat as two new districts of the state all through an administrative assembly scheduled on November 29, a senior legit stated on Monday.

    The 2 districts are set to be carved out of South and North 24 Parganas districts, he stated.

    “All of the important paintings to create the 2 new districts has been finished. The CM is more likely to announce the names day after today in Hingalganj all through the executive assembly,” the legit informed PTI.

    The CM will start her three-day excursion of the mangrove house of Sundarbans from Monday.

    The district of Sundarbans is more likely to have round 13 blocks of South 24 Parganas whilst Basirhat can have six of North 24 Parganas, he stated.

    Sundarbans, a UNESCO International Heritage web page, lately is unfold over North and South 24 Parganas districts, whilst Basirhat is a sub-division of North 24 Parganas. West Bengal lately has 23 districts.

    The state needed to undergo a value of a minimum of Rs 200 crore to create each and every district, the legit stated.

    Banerjee will carry out ‘Pratiki Puja’ (nature worship) at Hingalganj to give protection to population from elephant assaults, the legit stated.

    “I will be able to carry out ‘Prakriti Puja’ in Hingalganj. Of past due, elephant assaults have greater as jumbos are straying out of forests searching for meals,” she had on November 25 stated within the meeting.

    She had additionally expressed fear over Sundarbans dealing with herbal calamities similar to cyclones and floods yearly and stated her executive has submitted a grasp plan for the improvement of the world to the NITI Aayog.

    “We’ve submitted the grasp plan for Sundarbans to the NITI Aayog. Annually, there are cyclones and floods. If there’s a grasp plan, the issue might be solved. I will be able to ask the woodland minister to appear into the topic extra significantly,” she added.

    On Wednesday, Banerjee is scheduled to talk over with Sajnekahli in South 24 Parganas.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee is anticipated to formally announce Sundarbans and Basirhat as two new districts of the state all through an administrative assembly scheduled on November 29, a senior legit stated on Monday.

    The 2 districts are set to be carved out of South and North 24 Parganas districts, he stated.

    “All of the important paintings to create the 2 new districts has been finished. The CM is more likely to announce the names day after today in Hingalganj all through the executive assembly,” the legit informed PTI.

    The CM will start her three-day excursion of the mangrove house of Sundarbans from Monday.

    The district of Sundarbans is more likely to have round 13 blocks of South 24 Parganas whilst Basirhat can have six of North 24 Parganas, he stated.

    Sundarbans, a UNESCO International Heritage web page, lately is unfold over North and South 24 Parganas districts, whilst Basirhat is a sub-division of North 24 Parganas. West Bengal lately has 23 districts.

    The state needed to undergo a value of a minimum of Rs 200 crore to create each and every district, the legit stated.

    Banerjee will carry out ‘Pratiki Puja’ (nature worship) at Hingalganj to give protection to population from elephant assaults, the legit stated.

    “I will be able to carry out ‘Prakriti Puja’ in Hingalganj. Of past due, elephant assaults have greater as jumbos are straying out of forests searching for meals,” she had on November 25 stated within the meeting.

    She had additionally expressed fear over Sundarbans dealing with herbal calamities similar to cyclones and floods yearly and stated her executive has submitted a grasp plan for the improvement of the world to the NITI Aayog.

    “We’ve submitted the grasp plan for Sundarbans to the NITI Aayog. Annually, there are cyclones and floods. If there’s a grasp plan, the issue might be solved. I will be able to ask the woodland minister to appear into the topic extra significantly,” she added.

    On Wednesday, Banerjee is scheduled to talk over with Sajnekahli in South 24 Parganas.

  • West Bengal: Cupboard comes to a decision to permit trans other folks to use for executive jobs underneath basic class

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal Cupboard on Friday determined to permit other folks from the transgender group to use for presidency jobs underneath the overall class, an legitimate mentioned.

    A invoice on this regard will probably be presented all over the following funds consultation, he mentioned.

    “This new legislation will probably be useful for transgenders in getting jobs. It is going to be formulated within the subsequent funds consultation,” the legitimate mentioned.

    Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya mentioned the brand new regulations will probably be labored out in accordance with the Transgender Individuals (Coverage of Rights) Act, 2019.

    Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, previous on Friday, requested the social welfare division to formulate regulations that can permit transgenders to have equivalent alternatives in all fields.

    KOLKATA: The West Bengal Cupboard on Friday determined to permit other folks from the transgender group to use for presidency jobs underneath the overall class, an legitimate mentioned.

    A invoice on this regard will probably be presented all over the following funds consultation, he mentioned.

    “This new legislation will probably be useful for transgenders in getting jobs. It is going to be formulated within the subsequent funds consultation,” the legitimate mentioned.

    Finance Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya mentioned the brand new regulations will probably be labored out in accordance with the Transgender Individuals (Coverage of Rights) Act, 2019.

    Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, previous on Friday, requested the social welfare division to formulate regulations that can permit transgenders to have equivalent alternatives in all fields.

  • Bengal: Mamata meets Suvendu over tea at her Meeting chamber

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: In a primary since ultimate 12 months’s state elections, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday held a “courtesy assembly” with Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari at her chamber within the state Meeting, elevating eyebrows in political circles.

    Later, all the way through a dialogue on ‘Charter Day’ within the Area, the CM mentioned that she had adored him like a brother at one level.

    Adhikari and Banerjee have been at loggerheads because the finish of 2020 when he converted to the BJP from the TMC and defeated the TMC supremo in Nandigram within the Meeting polls.

    The assembly got here shut at the heels of Adhikari complaining that his identify was once now not integrated within the invitation letter for the ‘Charter Day’ programme within the Meeting.

    The BJP chief had additionally mentioned that he would “boycott” the programme.

    The Nandigram MLA was once noticed getting into Banerjee’s chamber accompanied via BJP leaders Manoj Tigga and Agnimitra Paul, in a while after the meeting consultation broke for recess within the afternoon.

    “I known as Suvendu for tea,” Banerjee mentioned after the assembly. Adhikari, speaking to newshounds, mentioned, “It was once only a courtesy name. Not anything else will have to be learn into it. I didn’t have tea.”

    Reacting to the “courtesy meet”, Congress chief Kamurzzan Chowdhury claimed that the method of “Didi-Modi patch-up” is underway, with an eye fixed at the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.”

    “The Centre launched budget for Pradhan Mantri Gram Awas Yojana the previous day, and Mamata is scheduled to satisfy PM Modi on December 5. Lately, the CM met Suvendu. Some of these level to the truth that the method for ‘Didi-Modi patch-up’ is underway,” he mentioned.

    Echoing identical sentiments, CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty informed PTI that “it changed into transparent from as of late’s assembly that there’s an working out between the TMC and the BJP.”

    KOLKATA: In a primary since ultimate 12 months’s state elections, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday held a “courtesy assembly” with Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari at her chamber within the state Meeting, elevating eyebrows in political circles.

    Later, all the way through a dialogue on ‘Charter Day’ within the Area, the CM mentioned that she had adored him like a brother at one level.

    Adhikari and Banerjee have been at loggerheads because the finish of 2020 when he converted to the BJP from the TMC and defeated the TMC supremo in Nandigram within the Meeting polls.

    The assembly got here shut at the heels of Adhikari complaining that his identify was once now not integrated within the invitation letter for the ‘Charter Day’ programme within the Meeting.

    The BJP chief had additionally mentioned that he would “boycott” the programme.

    The Nandigram MLA was once noticed getting into Banerjee’s chamber accompanied via BJP leaders Manoj Tigga and Agnimitra Paul, in a while after the meeting consultation broke for recess within the afternoon.

    “I known as Suvendu for tea,” Banerjee mentioned after the assembly. Adhikari, speaking to newshounds, mentioned, “It was once only a courtesy name. Not anything else will have to be learn into it. I didn’t have tea.”

    Reacting to the “courtesy meet”, Congress chief Kamurzzan Chowdhury claimed that the method of “Didi-Modi patch-up” is underway, with an eye fixed at the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.”

    “The Centre launched budget for Pradhan Mantri Gram Awas Yojana the previous day, and Mamata is scheduled to satisfy PM Modi on December 5. Lately, the CM met Suvendu. Some of these level to the truth that the method for ‘Didi-Modi patch-up’ is underway,” he mentioned.

    Echoing identical sentiments, CPI(M) chief Sujan Chakraborty informed PTI that “it changed into transparent from as of late’s assembly that there’s an working out between the TMC and the BJP.”

  • Bengal: CM Mamata Banerjee dials new Governor, exchanges pleasantries

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee known as up C V Ananda Bose, the newly appointed governor of the state, and exchanged pleasantries with him, a senior legitimate within the secretariat mentioned on Saturday.

    Banerjee telephoned Bose on Friday night and spoke with him for round 10 mins and so they exchanged pleasantries all over the dialog, the legitimate advised PTI.

    Bose, a retired IAS officer, is but to think place of job as the brand new governor of West Bengal.

    He changed Manipur Governor Los angeles Ganesan, who were protecting the extra fee of West Bengal since July after his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar was once nominated because the vice presidential candidate through the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA).

    By the way, the state govt and Dhankhar have been at loggerheads over a number of problems, together with the legislation and order state of affairs, since he assumed place of job in July 2019.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee known as up C V Ananda Bose, the newly appointed governor of the state, and exchanged pleasantries with him, a senior legitimate within the secretariat mentioned on Saturday.

    Banerjee telephoned Bose on Friday night and spoke with him for round 10 mins and so they exchanged pleasantries all over the dialog, the legitimate advised PTI.

    Bose, a retired IAS officer, is but to think place of job as the brand new governor of West Bengal.

    He changed Manipur Governor Los angeles Ganesan, who were protecting the extra fee of West Bengal since July after his predecessor Jagdeep Dhankhar was once nominated because the vice presidential candidate through the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA).

    By the way, the state govt and Dhankhar have been at loggerheads over a number of problems, together with the legislation and order state of affairs, since he assumed place of job in July 2019.

  • Mamata seeks PM’s intervention to deal Ganga-Padma river erosion in Bengal

    Via Specific Information Carrier

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Top Minister Narendra Modi at the factor of the grave danger of river erosion alongside the river Ganga-Padma and sought his intervention to rethink the verdict of withdrawal of the prolonged jurisdiction of Farakka Barrage Mission Authority (FBPA). The CM additional advised him to take up financial institution coverage schemes.

    “You might be kindly mindful that West Bengal is an broadly river-oriented state with the Ganga being an important river within the state. It’s true that the primary function of the development of Farakka Barrage underneath the central govt is to divert 40,000 cusecs of Ganga water to the Bhagirathi-Hooghly river gadget in order that the navigability of Kolkata port is maintained,” Mamata wrote.

    “Alternatively, this has resulted in siltation at the river mattress leading to spilling, financial institution erosion and flooding in adjoining spaces. This factor has been raised on the nationwide stage, no longer most effective by means of West Bengal but additionally by means of Bihar,” the letter added.

    The West Bengal Leader Minister raised the similar factor in a letter to the PM in February this yr.

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    Relating to the answer by means of the Centre to her previous letter, Mamata stated in her letter, “The Union Minister, in his letter, has indicated that FBPA has carried out anti-erosion/river coverage paintings to the music of Rs 342 crore all through the duration from 2005 to 2009. Alternatively, it’s spotted that the realm continues to be affected by serious erosion issues at a number of websites.”

    “Consequently, it’s transparent that the anti-erosion efforts had been tried piecemeal, and not using a holistic means taken. I’d, due to this fact, request you to kindly advise the involved division to behavior a joint find out about supported by means of appropriate style research, involving the FBPA and governments of West Bengal and Bihar underneath the aegis of the Ganga Flood Keep an eye on Fee,” learn the letter.  

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    The Bengal CM identified in her letter that the present jurisdiction of anti-erosion paintings of the FBPA wishes severe re-evaluation on the earliest. She alleged even of their unique jurisdiction, the FBPA has no longer taken up any complete anti-erosion process however has carried out piecemeal paintings most effective to blow their own horns.

    “Even all through the duration of prolonged jurisdiction, which remained legitimate from January 2005 to July 2017, the FBPA failed to devise and put into effect required anti-erosion works at the prolonged stretch of 120 km in the course of the state govt time and again advised,’’ she stated within the letter.

    Mamata additionally alleged no central help used to be equipped to handle river erosion within the affected districts.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote to Top Minister Narendra Modi at the factor of the grave danger of river erosion alongside the river Ganga-Padma and sought his intervention to rethink the verdict of withdrawal of the prolonged jurisdiction of Farakka Barrage Mission Authority (FBPA). The CM additional advised him to take up financial institution coverage schemes.

    “You might be kindly mindful that West Bengal is an broadly river-oriented state with the Ganga being an important river within the state. It’s true that the primary function of the development of Farakka Barrage underneath the central govt is to divert 40,000 cusecs of Ganga water to the Bhagirathi-Hooghly river gadget in order that the navigability of Kolkata port is maintained,” Mamata wrote.

    “Alternatively, this has resulted in siltation at the river mattress leading to spilling, financial institution erosion and flooding in adjoining spaces. This factor has been raised on the nationwide stage, no longer most effective by means of West Bengal but additionally by means of Bihar,” the letter added.

    The West Bengal Leader Minister raised the similar factor in a letter to the PM in February this yr.

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    Relating to the answer by means of the Centre to her previous letter, Mamata stated in her letter, “The Union Minister, in his letter, has indicated that FBPA has carried out anti-erosion/river coverage paintings to the music of Rs 342 crore all through the duration from 2005 to 2009. Alternatively, it’s spotted that the realm continues to be affected by serious erosion issues at a number of websites.”

    “Consequently, it’s transparent that the anti-erosion efforts had been tried piecemeal, and not using a holistic means taken. I’d, due to this fact, request you to kindly advise the involved division to behavior a joint find out about supported by means of appropriate style research, involving the FBPA and governments of West Bengal and Bihar underneath the aegis of the Ganga Flood Keep an eye on Fee,” learn the letter.  

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    The Bengal CM identified in her letter that the present jurisdiction of anti-erosion paintings of the FBPA wishes severe re-evaluation on the earliest. She alleged even of their unique jurisdiction, the FBPA has no longer taken up any complete anti-erosion process however has carried out piecemeal paintings most effective to blow their own horns.

    “Even all through the duration of prolonged jurisdiction, which remained legitimate from January 2005 to July 2017, the FBPA failed to devise and put into effect required anti-erosion works at the prolonged stretch of 120 km in the course of the state govt time and again advised,’’ she stated within the letter.

    Mamata additionally alleged no central help used to be equipped to handle river erosion within the affected districts.

  • Tribals in West Bengal’s Khairasole face acute water disaster

    By way of ANI

    JHARGRAM (West Bengal): The tribals of a small village in an inner space of Jhargram district in West Bengal face an acute water disaster, however they stated that there appears to be no resolution within the close to long term.

    Tribals at Khairasole village have to stroll greater than 3 km to fetch water as their village does no longer have a unmarried tubewell or pond.

    “Be it for ingesting, or for different necessities, we face an issue in securing water. Even to quench our thirst, we need to think carefully,” stated tribal Babulal Mandi, whilst talking completely to ANI.

    Any other tribal villager alleged that throughout elections guarantees are made to them about an answer. “All the way through the elections, a number of political events pay us a talk over with and promise to type out the water downside, however as soon as elections are over, no person bothers to care about their guarantees”, the villager alleged.

    The Jhargram district of West Bengal is surrounded through forests on either side. Sourabhi Murmur, a tribal girl resident of the Khairasole village instructed ANI that the water disaster within the village is obvious and this wish to be taken care of out. She stated the issue is so grave that the villagers are not able to get sufficient water for livestock, upon which their livelihood is dependent.

    “We are facing the water downside on an on a regular basis foundation. We both have to shop for water or commute for three kilometres to get water. And, it isn’t conceivable for my circle of relatives to shop for water on a daily basis,” stated Sourabhi Murmur.

    Satya Mahato, a resident of the within reach Narayanpur village, stated, “It’s difficult to move about our day by day lives if water isn’t to be had, that too for the entire village”.

    Leader Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee had confident the tribal villagers that the water downside might be taken care of out through 2024 and the tribals are ready. 

    JHARGRAM (West Bengal): The tribals of a small village in an inner space of Jhargram district in West Bengal face an acute water disaster, however they stated that there appears to be no resolution within the close to long term.

    Tribals at Khairasole village have to stroll greater than 3 km to fetch water as their village does no longer have a unmarried tubewell or pond.

    “Be it for ingesting, or for different necessities, we face an issue in securing water. Even to quench our thirst, we need to think carefully,” stated tribal Babulal Mandi, whilst talking completely to ANI.

    Any other tribal villager alleged that throughout elections guarantees are made to them about an answer. “All the way through the elections, a number of political events pay us a talk over with and promise to type out the water downside, however as soon as elections are over, no person bothers to care about their guarantees”, the villager alleged.

    The Jhargram district of West Bengal is surrounded through forests on either side. Sourabhi Murmur, a tribal girl resident of the Khairasole village instructed ANI that the water disaster within the village is obvious and this wish to be taken care of out. She stated the issue is so grave that the villagers are not able to get sufficient water for livestock, upon which their livelihood is dependent.

    “We are facing the water downside on an on a regular basis foundation. We both have to shop for water or commute for three kilometres to get water. And, it isn’t conceivable for my circle of relatives to shop for water on a daily basis,” stated Sourabhi Murmur.

    Satya Mahato, a resident of the within reach Narayanpur village, stated, “It’s difficult to move about our day by day lives if water isn’t to be had, that too for the entire village”.

    Leader Minister of West Bengal Mamata Banerjee had confident the tribal villagers that the water downside might be taken care of out through 2024 and the tribals are ready. 

  • Centre must eliminate GST if it cannot transparent our dues: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

    Through PTI

    JHARGRAM: Launching a tirade towards the BJP-led Union govt, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday stated the Centre must eliminate the Items and Services and products Tax (GST) regime whether it is not able to transparent the dues it owed to the state.

    Banerjee questioned if she must “beg” to get the dues cleared.

    Addressing a rally within the tribal-dominated Belpahari house of the Jhargram district, she stated the BJP-led govt should both make the cost or the birthday party should step down from the seat of energy.

    “They aren’t liberating budget beneath the MNREGA scheme. The BJP has to step down from energy if it does now not transparent our dues. The Centre should scrap GST whether it is cannot transparent the state’s dues (‘Jodi amader bokeya na dey, tahole bondo kore dik GST’). They aren’t doing us any favour via giving us GST dues; it’s other folks’s cash that they’ve taken thru GST,” she stated on the delivery anniversary programme of tribal freedom fighter Birsa Munda.

    Banerjee stated that she had additionally met Top Minister Narendra Modi and raised the subject.

    “We had agreed on imposing the GST; we idea the Centre would transparent our dues. However now the Centre is putting off all cash accumulated as GST however now not giving us our dues. I had met the Top Minister and asked him, however not anything moved ahead. Are we meant to beg for it? “Why must we pay GST if the Centre isn’t clearing our dues? If the Centre cannot give us the cash, we will additionally prevent paying GST. (Amrao tho bondho kore dite pari, keno GST tax debo?) The rustic is for the folk, now not for politicians. This isn’t BJP’s cash,” she stated.

    List out schemes, “beneath which budget were withheld”, Banerjee stated the Union govt is constitutionally certain to pay the state for the 100-day paintings scheme.

    “I wish to inform the central govt that liberating budget for the 100-day paintings scheme is a constitutional norm. The Centre should pay; it isn’t a duty, however a compulsion because the legislation has been handed via each Homes of the Parliament,” she stated.

    Hitting out at Bengal BJP management for announcing that it will be certain the Centre stopped fund float to the state, Banerjee sought to grasp if that cash used to be “non-public assets” of saffron birthday party leaders.

    Later, interacting with the locals, Banerjee claimed that scarcity of central budget used to be the principle reason why for the piped water challenge beneath Jal Jeevan Undertaking to have come to a halt.

    “Through 2024, the entire properties had been to get piped consuming water. However the Centre has stopped giving budget, which is why the challenge has come to a halt. After they pay, we can get started imposing it. We’re preventing towards the injustice meted out to us via the Centre,” she stated.

    In the meantime, reacting to Banerjee’s allegations, BJP chief Rahul Sinha stated fund float used to be stopped because the TMC govt didn’t post utilisation certificate at the cash spent beneath MNREGA.

    “Let the state govt first post the usage certificates for the budget gained previous; most effective then it is going to get started receiving budget once more,” Sinha stated.

    Previous within the day, Banerjee had tweeted that Munda taught other folks the significance of respecting and protective indigenous rights.

    “I pay my humble respects to ‘Dharti Aba’, courageous progressive Birsa Munda on his Delivery Anniversary. As a real son of the soil, he taught us the significance of respecting and protective indigenous rights. Would possibly we proceed to be steadfast at the trail proven via him. Jai Johar!” she wrote.

    JHARGRAM: Launching a tirade towards the BJP-led Union govt, West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday stated the Centre must eliminate the Items and Services and products Tax (GST) regime whether it is not able to transparent the dues it owed to the state.

    Banerjee questioned if she must “beg” to get the dues cleared.

    Addressing a rally within the tribal-dominated Belpahari house of the Jhargram district, she stated the BJP-led govt should both make the cost or the birthday party should step down from the seat of energy.

    “They aren’t liberating budget beneath the MNREGA scheme. The BJP has to step down from energy if it does now not transparent our dues. The Centre should scrap GST whether it is cannot transparent the state’s dues (‘Jodi amader bokeya na dey, tahole bondo kore dik GST’). They aren’t doing us any favour via giving us GST dues; it’s other folks’s cash that they’ve taken thru GST,” she stated on the delivery anniversary programme of tribal freedom fighter Birsa Munda.

    Banerjee stated that she had additionally met Top Minister Narendra Modi and raised the subject.

    “We had agreed on imposing the GST; we idea the Centre would transparent our dues. However now the Centre is putting off all cash accumulated as GST however now not giving us our dues. I had met the Top Minister and asked him, however not anything moved ahead. Are we meant to beg for it? “Why must we pay GST if the Centre isn’t clearing our dues? If the Centre cannot give us the cash, we will additionally prevent paying GST. (Amrao tho bondho kore dite pari, keno GST tax debo?) The rustic is for the folk, now not for politicians. This isn’t BJP’s cash,” she stated.

    List out schemes, “beneath which budget were withheld”, Banerjee stated the Union govt is constitutionally certain to pay the state for the 100-day paintings scheme.

    “I wish to inform the central govt that liberating budget for the 100-day paintings scheme is a constitutional norm. The Centre should pay; it isn’t a duty, however a compulsion because the legislation has been handed via each Homes of the Parliament,” she stated.

    Hitting out at Bengal BJP management for announcing that it will be certain the Centre stopped fund float to the state, Banerjee sought to grasp if that cash used to be “non-public assets” of saffron birthday party leaders.

    Later, interacting with the locals, Banerjee claimed that scarcity of central budget used to be the principle reason why for the piped water challenge beneath Jal Jeevan Undertaking to have come to a halt.

    “Through 2024, the entire properties had been to get piped consuming water. However the Centre has stopped giving budget, which is why the challenge has come to a halt. After they pay, we can get started imposing it. We’re preventing towards the injustice meted out to us via the Centre,” she stated.

    In the meantime, reacting to Banerjee’s allegations, BJP chief Rahul Sinha stated fund float used to be stopped because the TMC govt didn’t post utilisation certificate at the cash spent beneath MNREGA.

    “Let the state govt first post the usage certificates for the budget gained previous; most effective then it is going to get started receiving budget once more,” Sinha stated.

    Previous within the day, Banerjee had tweeted that Munda taught other folks the significance of respecting and protective indigenous rights.

    “I pay my humble respects to ‘Dharti Aba’, courageous progressive Birsa Munda on his Delivery Anniversary. As a real son of the soil, he taught us the significance of respecting and protective indigenous rights. Would possibly we proceed to be steadfast at the trail proven via him. Jai Johar!” she wrote.

  • Mamata Banerjee apologises for TMC minister’s observation on President Murmu

    Via Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday apologized on behalf of the prisons minister Akhil Giri’s arguable observation over the President’s glance. 

    “Akhil must no longer have made this sort of remark. I condemn the utterances of my MLA. I individually have nice regard for the President. We have now cautioned him… I apologise on behalf of my birthday party. My birthday party already has apologised. I’ve nice regards for the President,” mentioned Banerjee.

    “We have now cautioned Akhil. In long term, if any person of our birthday party makes touch upon a lady’s pores and skin complexion, our birthday party will take stern motion towards him,’’ mentioned Mamata at Nabanna, the state secretariat.   

    Mamata’s apology got here an afternoon earlier than her discuss with to Belpahari in Jhargram, a tribal-dominated area the place the BJP made deep inroads within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

    West Bengal Minister Akhil Giri on Saturday drew fashionable complaint for making arguable remarks on President Droupadi Murmu. After the video clip of his feedback went viral, Giri apologised for making this sort of observation.

    The West Bengal Leader Minister additionally mentioned if any individual commits a mistake, she or he must rectify that. 

    “After we stroll at the street, don’t we shuttle and fall? We wish to rectify that,’’ she mentioned whilst addressing the youngsters at the instance of Youngsters’s Day at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata.

    Resources within the Trinamool Congress and political observers within the state discovered the Leader Minister in reality referred to minister Akhil Giri’s observation at the President which drew condemnation from all political events.

    On November 11, Giri used to be stuck on digicam commenting at the President’s glance whilst hitting out on the Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and the video went viral the following day drawing flak from all political events.

    Whilst taking over Adhikari, who defeated Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee within the 2021 Meeting elections, Giri dragged the President with out naming her and mentioned, “He (Adhikari) says It’s not that i am handsome. How stunning he’s! We don’t pass judgement on other people by way of their appears to be like. We admire the chair of your President. How does your Rashtrapati glance?’’

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    Embarrassed by way of Giri’s act, the TMC issued a observation pronouncing the birthday party doesn’t endorse his observation.

    The TMC had voted towards the President and Mamata softened her stance after NDA introduced the title of its nominee, the primary tribal candidate within the presidential election.

    Mamata additionally discussed about mistake with out citing the continuing probe into the alleged irregularities in recruitment in colleges through which the previous TMC minister used to be arrested by way of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

    “Whilst operating, committing errors isn’t unnatural. For those who paintings, you have a tendency to make errors. However we will be able to need to rectify ourselves,’’ mentioned Mamata.

    The Leader Minister’s advice to ‘rectify’ is claimed to be aimed on the alleged recruitment rip-off that broken the birthday party’s symbol.

    “Our birthday party’s embarrassment used to be obviously visual following Chatterjee’s arrest and restoration of an enormous quantity of money and gold jewelry from one in all his shut aides. The TMC maintained distance by way of postponing Chatterjee from the birthday party in a while after his arrest,’’ mentioned a TMC chief.

    KOLKATA: West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday apologized on behalf of the prisons minister Akhil Giri’s arguable observation over the President’s glance. 

    “Akhil must no longer have made this sort of remark. I condemn the utterances of my MLA. I individually have nice regard for the President. We have now cautioned him… I apologise on behalf of my birthday party. My birthday party already has apologised. I’ve nice regards for the President,” mentioned Banerjee.

    “We have now cautioned Akhil. In long term, if any person of our birthday party makes touch upon a lady’s pores and skin complexion, our birthday party will take stern motion towards him,’’ mentioned Mamata at Nabanna, the state secretariat.   

    Mamata’s apology got here an afternoon earlier than her discuss with to Belpahari in Jhargram, a tribal-dominated area the place the BJP made deep inroads within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. 

    West Bengal Minister Akhil Giri on Saturday drew fashionable complaint for making arguable remarks on President Droupadi Murmu. After the video clip of his feedback went viral, Giri apologised for making this sort of observation.

    The West Bengal Leader Minister additionally mentioned if any individual commits a mistake, she or he must rectify that. 

    “After we stroll at the street, don’t we shuttle and fall? We wish to rectify that,’’ she mentioned whilst addressing the youngsters at the instance of Youngsters’s Day at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata.

    Resources within the Trinamool Congress and political observers within the state discovered the Leader Minister in reality referred to minister Akhil Giri’s observation at the President which drew condemnation from all political events.

    On November 11, Giri used to be stuck on digicam commenting at the President’s glance whilst hitting out on the Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and the video went viral the following day drawing flak from all political events.

    Whilst taking over Adhikari, who defeated Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee within the 2021 Meeting elections, Giri dragged the President with out naming her and mentioned, “He (Adhikari) says It’s not that i am handsome. How stunning he’s! We don’t pass judgement on other people by way of their appears to be like. We admire the chair of your President. How does your Rashtrapati glance?’’

    ALSO READ | Bengal minister faces complaint for making arguable remarks on President, later apologises

    Embarrassed by way of Giri’s act, the TMC issued a observation pronouncing the birthday party doesn’t endorse his observation.

    The TMC had voted towards the President and Mamata softened her stance after NDA introduced the title of its nominee, the primary tribal candidate within the presidential election.

    Mamata additionally discussed about mistake with out citing the continuing probe into the alleged irregularities in recruitment in colleges through which the previous TMC minister used to be arrested by way of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).

    “Whilst operating, committing errors isn’t unnatural. For those who paintings, you have a tendency to make errors. However we will be able to need to rectify ourselves,’’ mentioned Mamata.

    The Leader Minister’s advice to ‘rectify’ is claimed to be aimed on the alleged recruitment rip-off that broken the birthday party’s symbol.

    “Our birthday party’s embarrassment used to be obviously visual following Chatterjee’s arrest and restoration of an enormous quantity of money and gold jewelry from one in all his shut aides. The TMC maintained distance by way of postponing Chatterjee from the birthday party in a while after his arrest,’’ mentioned a TMC chief.

  • Some folks conspiring towards Bengal, looking to defame us: Mamata

    Amid the arrests of senior birthday party leaders in graft circumstances, the TMC supremo mentioned those that have dedicated errors must be given a possibility to rectify those.