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  • ‘We Too Agree…’: TMC’s Kunal Ghosh Backs Jawhar Sircar’s Sentiments On Resignation Over Kolkata Rape-Murder |

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jawhar Sircar on Sunday sparked a debate with his letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, announcing his decision to resign from the Rajya Sabha. Sircar’s resignation comes in the aftermath of the shocking rape and murder of a Kolkata doctor, a tragedy that has shaken the state. In response, fellow TMC leader Kunal Ghosh expressed his agreement with a significant part of Sircar’s letter. 

    “We have learned that Jawhar Sircar has made his decision. He was one of the finest bureaucrats in the country and a standout from West Bengal. This is his personal choice, decision, and letter, and he has every right to take such a step. We simply want to express that we, too, agree with the essence of his letter and the questions it raises.” Ghosh told reporters in Kolkata. 

    #WATCH | Kolkata: On TMC Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar quitting from his post, TMC leader Kunal Ghosh says, “Jawahar Sarkar is a respected person… He is one of the best bureaucrats in the country. This is his personal decision, his personal letter, I cannot comment on it. He has… pic.twitter.com/evGwLxcHrM
    — ANI (@ANI) September 8, 2024

    Earlier in the day, Jawhar Sircar, in a letter to TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, voiced his disappointment with the state government’s handling of corruption following the scandal involving the former education minister. 

    He highlighted that the incident at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a 31-year-old trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered, was the tipping point of his decision. 

    I am quitting as MP primarily because of WB government’s faulty handling of the most spontaneous public movement following the terrible rape-murder case at RG Kar Hospital.
    Quitting politics— to be with the people in their struggle for justice.
    My commitment to values unchanged pic.twitter.com/V98R06ziny
    — Jawhar Sircar (@jawharsircar) September 8, 2024

    Jawhar Sircar expressed disappointment, stating that despite his initial hopes for significant reforms through Mamata Banerjee’s anti-corruption campaign, little progress had been made.

  • Mamata Banerjee Leaves NITI Aayog Meeting Midway, Claims, ‘My Mic Was Stopped..’ |

    New Delhi:  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee walked out of the NITI Aayog on Saturday accused the centre of letting her speak. TMC leader alleged that her mic was stopped while she was speaking during the  NITI Aayog meeting.

    “…I was speaking, my mic was stopped. I said why did you stop me, why are you discriminating. I am attending the meeting you should be happy instead of that you are giving more scope to your party your government,” Banerjee said.

     

    #WATCH | Delhi: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says, “…I was speaking, my mic was stopped. I said why did you stop me, why are you discriminating. I am attending the meeting you should be happy instead of that you are giving more scope to your party your government. Only I am… pic.twitter.com/53U8vuPDpZ
    — ANI (@ANI) July 27, 2024

     

    The Council meeting of NITI Aayog, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, included all state chief ministers, lieutenant governors of Union Territories, and several Union ministers as its members. While many of the INDIA bloc leaders opposed it and did not attend the meeting.

    She further added that she was not allowed to speak for more than 5 minutes while people before her spoke for 10-20 minutes. 

    “…I said you (central government) should not discriminate against state governments. I wanted to speak but I was allowed to speak only for 5 minutes. People before me spoke for 10-20 minutes. I was the only one from the opposition who was participating but still, I was not allowed to speak. This is insulting,” she added.

  • Mamata Banerjee Not To Attend INDIA Bloc meet On June 1, Cites Polling, Post-Cyclone Relief Work |

    New Delhi/ Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Monday said she will not attend the meeting of the INDIA bloc on June 1 due to the last phase of Lok Sabha polls and ongoing relief work after cyclone ‘Remal’ hit the state’s coastal regions.

    According to sources, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has convened a meeting of the INDIA bloc leaders in the afternoon of June 1, coinciding with the last round of polling.

    Addressing an election rally in Kolkata, Banerjee mentioned her inability to attend the INDIA bloc meeting due to the scheduled elections in the state on that day.

    “The INDIA bloc meeting has been fixed on June 1. But I have already said I can’t go on June 1 as there is an election in our state on that day. So far I know there are elections in Punjab, UP and Bihar. Voting will continue till 6 pm, and at times it extends beyond that (6 pm),” she said.

    Banerjee highlighted the dual challenges of post-cyclone relief work and ongoing elections, emphasising her priority towards relief efforts.

    “How can I leave everything behind and go? My priority is relief work. Even if I am holding a meeting here, my heart goes out to those people (affected by the cyclone),” she said at the Kolkata rally.

    Cyclone Remal, with wind speed reaching 135 kmph, claimed four lives in West Bengal and caused extensive damage to infrastructure and property in the state’s coastal areas as it tore through West Bengal and Bangladesh, officials reported on Monday.

    The TMC had withdrawn from the INDIA bloc in West Bengal in January but affirmed its commitment to remain part of the opposition alliance at the national level.

    During the election campaigns in the last two months, Banerjee had expressed confidence that the INDIA bloc would win the Lok Sabha elections and affirmed her involvement in the anti-BJP alliance at the national level.

    Sources in the TMC revealed that voting will be conducted on nine seats, including two seats in Kolkata, in West Bengal on June 1, which are crucial for the party.

    Apart from the Kolkata Dakshin and Kolkata Uttar, other constituencies in the state that will go to polls on that day include Jadavpur, Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jayanagar, Mathurapur and Diamond Harbour.

    TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and other top leaders will exercise their franchise on the day, and, therefore, they will be unable to attend the meeting, a source said, adding that the party has attended all meetings of the opposition bloc so far.

    The source added that the TMC has conveyed this to the organisers.

    The first meeting of the opposition bloc Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) was held in Patna on June 23 last year, followed by meetings in Bengaluru on July 17-18, 2023, and in Mumbai between August 31 and September 1, where the opposition parties adopted resolutions to contest the Lok Sabha elections unitedly.

    The fourth meeting of the opposition bloc was held in Delhi on December 19.

    The next gathering of opposition leaders took place in Delhi on March 31, where top leaders shared the stage at the “Save Democracy” rally held against the arrests of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren. A similar ‘Ulgulan’ rally was held in Ranchi on April 21.

    The TMC has been part of all these meetings and rallies.

    At the March 31 rally in Delhi, TMC’s parliamentary party leader in Rajya Sabha, Derek O’Brien, announced that the party would remain part of the INDIA bloc.

    The TMC, which is in power in West Bengal, does not have any seat-sharing deal with the Congress or any other INDIA bloc partner in its home state. But its candidate Laliteshpati Tripathi in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi has been supported by ally Samajwadi Party.

    Twenty-eight opposition parties came together to form the INDIA bloc. However, some parties such as Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) and the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) later switched over to the NDA.

  • PM Modi Rebuts Mamata’s Comment On Ramakrishna Mission Monks As ‘Vote Bank’ Politics |

    New Delhi: Prime Minister and BJP senior leader Narendra Modi condemned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s remarks against the Ramakrishna Mission and Bharat Sevashram Sangha monks. While addressing the rally in West Bengal’s Purulia on Sunday, Modi said that TMC has crossed all the limits by stooping so low that it is “spreading canards against ISKCON, Ramakrishna Mission and Bharat Sevashram Sangha”

    Reacting to Banjerjee’s remark, PM Modi said that threats were being issued against these socio-religious organisations just to appease their vote bank.

    “The TMC, which has intimidated and threatened the people of Bengal during elections, has crossed all limits this time. Today, in the country and the world, ISKCON, Ramakrishna Mission and Bharat Sevashram Sangh are known for service and morality, but the chief minister of Bengal is openly threatening them from an open platform…They are threatening them just to appease their vote bank” he said.

    Prime Minister Modi slams TMC for belittling the saints of Bengal and attacking Bharat Sevashram Sangh, Ramakrishna Mission and ISKCON.

    What has Mamata Banerjee reduced Bengal, the land of several Hindu renaissance movement, to. Disappointing. pic.twitter.com/lWM1sMuV1S


    — Amit Malviya (मोदी का परिवार) (@amitmalviya) May 19, 2024

    Earlier, CM Banerjee during his poll rally in Goghat under the Arambagh Lok Sabha constituency on Saturday claimed that some mocks of the Ramakrishna Mission and Bharat Sevashram Sangha are working under the BJP leader’s influence. 

    “Some monks of Ramakrishna Mission and Bharat Sevashram Sangha are working under the influence of BJP leaders in Delhi. Those who are looking after temples are doing great spiritual jobs, but everyone is not doing so. This is not done. We respect the monks,” she said.

    PM Modi further added that these organisations have millions of followers across the world and they aim to serve the people.

    “The Bengal government has pointed fingers at them. So much courage! Just to please their vote bank?” PM Modi said.

    Meanwhile, Modi accused Banerjee during his Bishnupur rally and said that she was under the pressure of Muslim fundamentalists and attacking the saints and monks of the country.

    “In their desperation, TMC leaders have started hurling abuses at prestigious organisations like ISKCON, Ramakrishna Mission, and Bharat Sevashram Sangha. These organisations have brought glory to Bengal, but the CM of the state claims they are ruining Bengal. Under pressure from Muslim fundamentalists, she has publicly insulted our faith,” he added. 

  • ‘We Are Not Safe…’: Mamata Banerjee Blames BJP For Threatening Her, Nephew Abhishek |

    New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has made serious accusations against the BJP, claiming that she and her nephew, TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, are being targeted and feel threatened. She said, “The BJP is targeting me and Abhishek; we are not safe.”  

    These allegations came a day after a statement by the Leader of Opposition in the assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, who hinted that there would be a “big explosion on Monday that will shake the TMC and its top brass,” reported PTI.  

    “But we are also not afraid of the saffron party’s conspiracy. We urge everyone to be on guard against a conspiracy against TMC leaders and the people of West Bengal,” she said at a rally in support of party candidate and state minister Biplab Mitra for the Balurghat Lok Sabha seat in Kumarganj.  

    In response to Adhikari’s remark, the TMC leader conveyed that there is an individual who has aligned with the BJP purportedly to safeguard his family and acquire assets. She asserted that his suggestion of instigating a “chocolate bomb explosion” was regarded with disdain by her party.  

    She emphasised that the party would expose the irregularities in the PM Care Fund and the unfulfilled promise of depositing Rs 15 lakh into each citizen’s bank account. She accused him of disseminating misinformation.  

    Banerjee further commented on the alteration in the colour scheme of the Doordarshan logo, indicating that all of these were done to suit the party’s agenda during he election. She said, “Why did the DD logo suddenly turn saffron? Why were the official residences of army personnel painted in saffron? Why was the uniform of police in Kashi (Varanasi) changed to saffron?” It represents yet another instance of the BJP’s authoritarian governance. Should they regain power, future elections may cease to exist, she added. 

  • NIA Team Probing Medinipur Blast Case Stopped By Protesters In West Bengal, Car Vandalised |

    Kolkata: In a distressing repetition of past events, a team from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) encountered stiff resistance in Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal, while conducting investigations related to a blast case on Saturday. The latest incident is reminiscent of a similar attack on the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) team in Sandeshkhali, North 24 Parganas where the officers were besieged and allegedly assaulted during a raid linked to an alleged food scam.

    According to sources within the NIA, the team dispatched to Purba Medinipur faced hostility during their probe into the blast case. Reports indicate that the vehicle transporting the NIA officers was targeted and vandalized amidst efforts to apprehend a suspect connected to the ongoing investigation.

    A video footage circulating on social media purportedly depicts residents gathering around the NIA vehicle, attempting to obstruct the apprehension of the suspect. The situation escalated as villagers resorted to pelting the vehicle with stones, further escalating tensions.

     

    #WATCH | West Bengal: NIA officers had to face protesters in Sandeshkhali while they were carrying out an investigation in connection with the Bhupatinagar, East Medinipur blast case. People allegedly tried to stop the NIA team from taking the accused persons along with them.… pic.twitter.com/UVoAO6uuPQ
    — ANI (@ANI) April 6, 2024

     

    Sandeshkhali, situated within the Sundarbans, has become a focal point of political discourse following allegations of sexual abuse and land encroachment against suspended TMC politician Shajahan Sheikh and his associates. The recent remarks by the Calcutta High Court condemning the events in Sandeshkhali also underscored the gravity of the situation.

    Earlier this year, Shahjahan Sheikh, the suspended TMC leader, triggered a political storm when an ED team conducting a raid at his residence in connection with a ration scam was met with mob violence. This incident came as a grim reminder of the escalating tensions and recurring confrontations in the region.

  • ‘Submit Report On Sandeshkhali Violence’: West Bengal Governor Orders Mamata Govt |

    Kolkata: Sandeshkhali, a village in West Bengal, has become the latest flashpoint of political tension as Governor CV Anand Bose has now demanded a report on Friday’s violence from the Mamata Banerjee-led government. The Raj Bhavan’s directive, coupled with calls for action against the perpetrators, underscored the simmering discontent and accusations swirling around the incident.

    At the heart of the unrest lies a land dispute allegedly involving Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shivprasad Hazra. Angered by claims of forced land acquisition, villagers, including women leading marches, torched Hazra’s poultry farm. They were demanding the arrest of TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh, accused of orchestrating a land ration allotment scam.

    The heavy police presence deployed to quell the protests proved insufficient to contain the villagers’ fury. The fiery act raised questions about the effectiveness of law enforcement and fueled public outrage. “Investigations are underway to determine the cause behind the disturbances in Sandeshkhali over the past three days. All complaints received in the last two days are being thoroughly examined. It is not appropriate to make any statements at the moment, as the matter is under investigation. Adequate police forces are deployed in the area, and the situation is currently under control,” said ADG Law and Order for West Bengal, Manoj Verma.

    While investigations are underway, the blame game has already begun. TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh, pointed fingers at the opposition, claiming CPI(M) and BJP instigated the violence. Two arrests have been made, and Ghosh alleged the unrest is a ploy to divert attention from Mamata Banerjee’s upcoming announcement for MGNREGA workers.

    However, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari painted a different picture. He called the incident a repercussion of the state government’s actions, highlighting concerns about alleged suppression of democracy and silencing of dissent. Adhikari claimed the violence reflects the pent-up anger of the people simmering for years. “We do not support taking the law into one’s hands. What has been happening in the last 12 years there, it seems that democracy is over there. The right to vote and the right to voice one’s opinions is over. Whatever is happening is a normal turn of events. People were angry for a long time and that has come out,” Adhikari said.

    Amidst these opposing narratives, the truth remains under investigation. The Governor’s demand for a report indicates a seriousness to understand the root cause and ensure accountability. However, the political mudslinging threatens to overshadow the voices of the villagers and their grievances.

    Key questions linger: Was the land acquisition legitimate? Did authorities adequately address the villagers’ concerns? Was the violence pre-meditated, or a spontaneous outburst of frustration? Only a transparent and impartial investigation can provide answers and pave the way for a peaceful resolution.

  • TMC chief Abhishek Banerjee grilled by way of ED for 9 hours over instructor recruitment rip-off

    Via Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: Hours after West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee flew to Spain, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday gave the impression ahead of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to irregularities in recruitment to state aided colleges and confronted a marathon interrogation by way of the central company for over 9 hours.

    Abhishek, additionally the TMC’s nationwide basic secretary, used to be served a summons by way of the central company asking him to show up at its place of job on Wednesday, the day he used to be scheduled to wait the primary assembly of the 14-member coordination committee of the opposition bloc INDIA.

    The second one-in-command within the TMC is the social gathering’s consultant on the 14-member committee which is meant to formulate the method of the 28-party bloc to take at the BJP for the impending basic elections and devise a best-possible seat sharing method to keep away from the department of Opposition votes.

    “I used to be summoned at the day of the INDIA bloc’s first coordination committee. Had they summoned me an afternoon ahead of or an afternoon after, I may have attended the assembly. However the timing of the summons is a transparent mirrored image of the TMC’s necessary position within the opposition bloc. Many allies of INDIA asked me to skip the summons and attend the assembly. I informed them to not put off the scheduled match as I’ve solutions for all questions of the central company,” stated Abhishek after popping out of the ED’s place of job.

    ALSO READ | Abhishek meets Rahul & Kejriwal to dealer peace

    Abhishek challenged the ED asking the investigating company to post his remark given to the central company ahead of the court docket. He additionally described Wednesday’s interrogation as revenge for the BJP’s defeat within the Dhupguri Meeting by-election.

    Abhishek reached the CGO Complicated in Salt Lake, the place the ED’s place of job is positioned round 11.35 am and got here out round 8.50 pm. He went instantly to the central company’s place of job the place a batch of the investigating company’s officials had been looking ahead to his arrival. TMC supporters assembled on either side of the primary front of the complicated and central forces had been deployed to protect the compound.

    Senior ED officers stated they sought after to query Abhishek in reference to the cash path related to irregularities in recruitment to state-aided colleges after some of the accused, Sujoykrishna Bhadra, who’s right now in judicial custody, had stated he labored for the TMC chief. “It used to be Bhadra who dropped Abhishek’s title. We wish Abhishek to elucidate his relation with Bhadra who allegedly handled the proceeds of the recruitment rip-off,” stated an ED respectable.

    The central investigating company previous had stated Bhadra used to be the manager running director of Leaps and Bounds Personal Ltd, an organization whose leader government officer is Abhishek. The names of Abhishek’s folks function as administrators of the corporate.

    Whilst Mamata termed the ED’s motion as BJP’s political vendetta, Abhishek stated the central company’s transfer used to be an instance of the “timidity and vacuousness of the 56-inch chest style” hinting that the motion mirrored the Centre’s worry of the opposition bloc.

    KOLKATA: Hours after West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee flew to Spain, her nephew Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday gave the impression ahead of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in reference to irregularities in recruitment to state aided colleges and confronted a marathon interrogation by way of the central company for over 9 hours.

    Abhishek, additionally the TMC’s nationwide basic secretary, used to be served a summons by way of the central company asking him to show up at its place of job on Wednesday, the day he used to be scheduled to wait the primary assembly of the 14-member coordination committee of the opposition bloc INDIA.

    The second one-in-command within the TMC is the social gathering’s consultant on the 14-member committee which is meant to formulate the method of the 28-party bloc to take at the BJP for the impending basic elections and devise a best-possible seat sharing method to keep away from the department of Opposition votes.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “I used to be summoned at the day of the INDIA bloc’s first coordination committee. Had they summoned me an afternoon ahead of or an afternoon after, I may have attended the assembly. However the timing of the summons is a transparent mirrored image of the TMC’s necessary position within the opposition bloc. Many allies of INDIA asked me to skip the summons and attend the assembly. I informed them to not put off the scheduled match as I’ve solutions for all questions of the central company,” stated Abhishek after popping out of the ED’s place of job.

    ALSO READ | Abhishek meets Rahul & Kejriwal to dealer peace

    Abhishek challenged the ED asking the investigating company to post his remark given to the central company ahead of the court docket. He additionally described Wednesday’s interrogation as revenge for the BJP’s defeat within the Dhupguri Meeting by-election.

    Abhishek reached the CGO Complicated in Salt Lake, the place the ED’s place of job is positioned round 11.35 am and got here out round 8.50 pm. He went instantly to the central company’s place of job the place a batch of the investigating company’s officials had been looking ahead to his arrival. TMC supporters assembled on either side of the primary front of the complicated and central forces had been deployed to protect the compound.

    Senior ED officers stated they sought after to query Abhishek in reference to the cash path related to irregularities in recruitment to state-aided colleges after some of the accused, Sujoykrishna Bhadra, who’s right now in judicial custody, had stated he labored for the TMC chief. “It used to be Bhadra who dropped Abhishek’s title. We wish Abhishek to elucidate his relation with Bhadra who allegedly handled the proceeds of the recruitment rip-off,” stated an ED respectable.

    The central investigating company previous had stated Bhadra used to be the manager running director of Leaps and Bounds Personal Ltd, an organization whose leader government officer is Abhishek. The names of Abhishek’s folks function as administrators of the corporate.

    Whilst Mamata termed the ED’s motion as BJP’s political vendetta, Abhishek stated the central company’s transfer used to be an instance of the “timidity and vacuousness of the 56-inch chest style” hinting that the motion mirrored the Centre’s worry of the opposition bloc.

  • India now ‘tum abhi chup raho republic’: Mahua Moitra

    By means of PTI

    NEW DELHI: TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday introduced a stinging assault at the govt on Thursday and mentioned the opposition’s no-confidence movement used to be if truth be told a ‘trust in INDIA movement’ and used to be geared toward breaking the ‘omerta’ on Manipur.

    Collaborating within the debate of the no-confidence movement within the Lok Sabha, Moitra mentioned the Manipur factor is ‘mired in silence’ within the govt’s ‘whataboutery and false equivalences’.

    “We’re right here to invite questions in our ‘tum abhi chup raho republic’, the place the honourable PM  tells the governor ‘chup raho’, the place we as elected MPs on this Area are automatically advised ‘chup raho’.

    This movement is to wreck omerta, this code of silence in Manipur, probably the most urgent factor of the day on which we’re all meant to ‘raho chup’,” she mentioned.

    “Even with this movement, the Hon’ble top minister didn’t come to the Area day sooner than the day past or the day past. ‘Woh thodi na aapki baithkar sunege, woh aakhri din ayenge aur aap sabki dhajjiyan uda ke jayenge’ (He’ll now not pay attention to you, he’ll come at the remaining day and decimate you). Advantageous, we’re ready, no downside,” she mentioned.

    #WATCH | TMC MP Mahua Moitra says “India has misplaced self belief in you (PM Modi). The spectacle of the top minister of the best democracy bowing to spiritual Seers of a majority within the chamber of the brand new Parliament fills us with disgrace, police manhandling and submitting FIRs… percent.twitter.com/BBFMVIqExC

    — ANI (@ANI) August 10, 2023

    “I do not know what’s extra unlucky that the hon’ble top minister refuses to come back to this Area, of which he’s an elected member, to respond to to us on Manipur or that he refuses to visit Manipur to reassure petrified folks that peace and reconciliation are his project,” she mentioned.

    Moitra asserted that this isn’t only a no-confidence in govt movement, however is a ‘trust in INDIA movement’.

    “Maximum no-confidence motions are damaging motions moved with the average chance of bringing down the federal government of the day. We all know that isn’t even a chance, we do not need the numbers, we all know that. Lots of our pals within the treasury benches, our allies, as additionally BJD and YSRCP have mocked us announcing you can not deliver down the federal government, it’s doomed to fail,” the MP from Krishnanagar in West Bengal mentioned.

    “We as INDIA are most likely the primary bloc that has been compelled to deliver a movement to not deliver down the rest however to resurrect one thing, to resurrect India’s founding ideas of equality and secularism which this govt has buried six toes beneath, to resurrect the proper to precise ourselves within the democratic framework which you label as prime treason, to resurrect the proper of a non-homogenous, numerous other people to exist inside of a Union of the state which your govt insists of dividing in ‘us’ and ‘them’,” Moitra mentioned.

    Make no mistake, this movement isn’t supposed to achieve this Area however the higher movement of ‘trust in INDIA movement’ will be triumphant when the folk of India have their say quickly, she mentioned.

    Moitra mentioned the treasury benches have made vitriolic feedback about why handiest Manipur, what concerning the cases of rape and homicide in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.

    “We (opposition) in flip have felt forced to invite what concerning the violence in Haryana. I need to inform this Area that Manipur is other and I can inform you why. The problem of Manipur is of a hate crime towards a specific neighborhood the place it’s understood that the police team of workers of 1 neighborhood, perhaps the similar neighborhood as of the manager minister, passed over ladies of every other neighborhood to be raped and pillaged by way of a mob and made each try to save you the ones ladies from in quest of justice,” she alleged.

    The problem is that two communities in Manipur had been pitted towards each and every different in an ‘environment of civil warfare and ethnic violence that has hardly been noticed in India up to now few a long time’.

    She indexed the have an effect on of the three-month-long violence, “6,500 FIRs, 4,000 homes destroyed, 60,000 other people displaced, 150 other people useless, 300 puts of worship destroyed – and requested which state outdoor wartime or herbal calamity has noticed this.

    “An palms standoff between the Manipur state police and the Assam Rifles, captured on video, which state has noticed this; 5,000 firearms and 6 lakh bullets looted from police stations by way of mobs which state has noticed this, two ethnic teams armed to the tooth, a buffer zone the place hill (other people) can’t move to the valley and valley (other people) can’t move to hill, which state has noticed this,” she mentioned.

    “Prevent your whataboutery, prevent your false equivalences, cope with the issue, Hon’ble High Minister,” she mentioned.

    There has neither been a transformation within the police, within the management, govt nor has any person taken accountability, Moitra mentioned, slamming the federal government’s dealing with of the Manipur violence.

    “Manipur is a tacitly licensed hate crime, make no mistake that is civil warfare, those are crimes towards humanity,” she asserted.

    In Manipur, the BJP’s ‘majoritarian bravado’ is destroying a state and tearing aside its other people, the TMC MP mentioned.

    “Hon’ble High Minister, in case you are listening I encourage you on behalf of the folk of Manipur, exchange the management, permit all of the events to paintings in combination to mediate a truce another way even after your time period ends, India will echo in a single voice as to what went so extraordinarily fallacious in Manipur with such horrible penalties for our nation,” she mentioned.

    Moitra claimed that India has misplaced self belief within the top minister.

    “The spectacle of the High Minister of biggest democracy bowing to the non secular seers of a majority within the chamber of the brand new Parliament fills us with disgrace, police manhandling wrestlers and submitting FIRs towards champion wrestlers towards a BJP accused fills us with disgrace, 50 panchayats in 3 districts of BJP-ruled Haryana issuing letters forbidding Muslim buyers coming into the state fills us with disgrace,” Moitra mentioned.

    She asserted that TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, Samajwadi Birthday party chief Akhilesh Yadav, DMK’s MK Stalin, and Congress’ Rahul Gandhi aren’t scared.

    This inactiveness on Manipur, High Minister, the place you had absolute energy to intrude however didn’t, is a cornerstone and then India will say any person however Modi,” she mentioned in her over 10-minute speech.

    NEW DELHI: TMC MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday introduced a stinging assault at the govt on Thursday and mentioned the opposition’s no-confidence movement used to be if truth be told a ‘trust in INDIA movement’ and used to be geared toward breaking the ‘omerta’ on Manipur.

    Collaborating within the debate of the no-confidence movement within the Lok Sabha, Moitra mentioned the Manipur factor is ‘mired in silence’ within the govt’s ‘whataboutery and false equivalences’.

    “We’re right here to invite questions in our ‘tum abhi chup raho republic’, the place the honourable PM  tells the governor ‘chup raho’, the place we as elected MPs on this Area are automatically advised ‘chup raho’.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    This movement is to wreck omerta, this code of silence in Manipur, probably the most urgent factor of the day on which we’re all meant to ‘raho chup’,” she mentioned.

    “Even with this movement, the Hon’ble top minister didn’t come to the Area day sooner than the day past or the day past. ‘Woh thodi na aapki baithkar sunege, woh aakhri din ayenge aur aap sabki dhajjiyan uda ke jayenge’ (He’ll now not pay attention to you, he’ll come at the remaining day and decimate you). Advantageous, we’re ready, no downside,” she mentioned.

    #WATCH | TMC MP Mahua Moitra says “India has misplaced self belief in you (PM Modi). The spectacle of the top minister of the best democracy bowing to spiritual Seers of a majority within the chamber of the brand new Parliament fills us with disgrace, police manhandling and submitting FIRs… percent.twitter.com/BBFMVIqExC
    — ANI (@ANI) August 10, 2023
    “I do not know what’s extra unlucky that the hon’ble top minister refuses to come back to this Area, of which he’s an elected member, to respond to to us on Manipur or that he refuses to visit Manipur to reassure petrified folks that peace and reconciliation are his project,” she mentioned.

    Moitra asserted that this isn’t only a no-confidence in govt movement, however is a ‘trust in INDIA movement’.

    “Maximum no-confidence motions are damaging motions moved with the average chance of bringing down the federal government of the day. We all know that isn’t even a chance, we do not need the numbers, we all know that. Lots of our pals within the treasury benches, our allies, as additionally BJD and YSRCP have mocked us announcing you can not deliver down the federal government, it’s doomed to fail,” the MP from Krishnanagar in West Bengal mentioned.

    “We as INDIA are most likely the primary bloc that has been compelled to deliver a movement to not deliver down the rest however to resurrect one thing, to resurrect India’s founding ideas of equality and secularism which this govt has buried six toes beneath, to resurrect the proper to precise ourselves within the democratic framework which you label as prime treason, to resurrect the proper of a non-homogenous, numerous other people to exist inside of a Union of the state which your govt insists of dividing in ‘us’ and ‘them’,” Moitra mentioned.

    Make no mistake, this movement isn’t supposed to achieve this Area however the higher movement of ‘trust in INDIA movement’ will be triumphant when the folk of India have their say quickly, she mentioned.

    Moitra mentioned the treasury benches have made vitriolic feedback about why handiest Manipur, what concerning the cases of rape and homicide in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal.

    “We (opposition) in flip have felt forced to invite what concerning the violence in Haryana. I need to inform this Area that Manipur is other and I can inform you why. The problem of Manipur is of a hate crime towards a specific neighborhood the place it’s understood that the police team of workers of 1 neighborhood, perhaps the similar neighborhood as of the manager minister, passed over ladies of every other neighborhood to be raped and pillaged by way of a mob and made each try to save you the ones ladies from in quest of justice,” she alleged.

    The problem is that two communities in Manipur had been pitted towards each and every different in an ‘environment of civil warfare and ethnic violence that has hardly been noticed in India up to now few a long time’.

    She indexed the have an effect on of the three-month-long violence, “6,500 FIRs, 4,000 homes destroyed, 60,000 other people displaced, 150 other people useless, 300 puts of worship destroyed – and requested which state outdoor wartime or herbal calamity has noticed this.

    “An palms standoff between the Manipur state police and the Assam Rifles, captured on video, which state has noticed this; 5,000 firearms and 6 lakh bullets looted from police stations by way of mobs which state has noticed this, two ethnic teams armed to the tooth, a buffer zone the place hill (other people) can’t move to the valley and valley (other people) can’t move to hill, which state has noticed this,” she mentioned.

    “Prevent your whataboutery, prevent your false equivalences, cope with the issue, Hon’ble High Minister,” she mentioned.

    There has neither been a transformation within the police, within the management, govt nor has any person taken accountability, Moitra mentioned, slamming the federal government’s dealing with of the Manipur violence.

    “Manipur is a tacitly licensed hate crime, make no mistake that is civil warfare, those are crimes towards humanity,” she asserted.

    In Manipur, the BJP’s ‘majoritarian bravado’ is destroying a state and tearing aside its other people, the TMC MP mentioned.

    “Hon’ble High Minister, in case you are listening I encourage you on behalf of the folk of Manipur, exchange the management, permit all of the events to paintings in combination to mediate a truce another way even after your time period ends, India will echo in a single voice as to what went so extraordinarily fallacious in Manipur with such horrible penalties for our nation,” she mentioned.

    Moitra claimed that India has misplaced self belief within the top minister.

    “The spectacle of the High Minister of biggest democracy bowing to the non secular seers of a majority within the chamber of the brand new Parliament fills us with disgrace, police manhandling wrestlers and submitting FIRs towards champion wrestlers towards a BJP accused fills us with disgrace, 50 panchayats in 3 districts of BJP-ruled Haryana issuing letters forbidding Muslim buyers coming into the state fills us with disgrace,” Moitra mentioned.

    She asserted that TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, Samajwadi Birthday party chief Akhilesh Yadav, DMK’s MK Stalin, and Congress’ Rahul Gandhi aren’t scared.

    This inactiveness on Manipur, High Minister, the place you had absolute energy to intrude however didn’t, is a cornerstone and then India will say any person however Modi,” she mentioned in her over 10-minute speech.

  • TMC’s Derek O’ Brien suspended from Rajya Sabha for rest of monsoon consultation

    Via PTI

    NEW DELHI: TMC chief Derek O’Brien on Tuesday was once suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remainder of the Monsoon consultation after he disobeyed Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar whilst looking to search a dialogue at the Manipur factor.

    The TMC chief sought to talk beneath the pretext of elevating some extent of order and when the chairman requested him to indicate to the rule of thumb he was once in need of to talk on, O’Brien stated 267 — the rule of thumb beneath which the opposition has been searching for a dialogue at the Manipur factor because the get started of the Monsoon consultation on July 20.

    This infuriated the chairman, who stated he’s naming O’Brien.

    The Chief of the Area and Union Minister Piyush Goyal thereafter moved a movement for postponing the TMC chief for the remainder of the Monsoon consultation.

    No faster had Goyal were given up than TMC MPs rushed to the neatly, shouting slogans.

    Dhankhar stated O’Brien has been suspended for the rest of the Monsoon consultation. The Monsoon consultation of Parliament is to finish on August 11.

    An MP named by way of the chair, as in step with regulations, has to withdraw from the court cases of the Area for the day.

    The chair and O’Brien had a spat even throughout discussions at the Delhi products and services invoice on Monday night time when Dhankhar accused Derek O’Brien of doing “theatrics” within the Area to achieve exposure throughout a heated debate at the Delhi products and services invoice.

    The chair then adjourned the consultation until midday.

    NEW DELHI: TMC chief Derek O’Brien on Tuesday was once suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remainder of the Monsoon consultation after he disobeyed Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar whilst looking to search a dialogue at the Manipur factor.

    The TMC chief sought to talk beneath the pretext of elevating some extent of order and when the chairman requested him to indicate to the rule of thumb he was once in need of to talk on, O’Brien stated 267 — the rule of thumb beneath which the opposition has been searching for a dialogue at the Manipur factor because the get started of the Monsoon consultation on July 20.

    This infuriated the chairman, who stated he’s naming O’Brien.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The Chief of the Area and Union Minister Piyush Goyal thereafter moved a movement for postponing the TMC chief for the remainder of the Monsoon consultation.

    No faster had Goyal were given up than TMC MPs rushed to the neatly, shouting slogans.

    Dhankhar stated O’Brien has been suspended for the rest of the Monsoon consultation. The Monsoon consultation of Parliament is to finish on August 11.

    An MP named by way of the chair, as in step with regulations, has to withdraw from the court cases of the Area for the day.

    The chair and O’Brien had a spat even throughout discussions at the Delhi products and services invoice on Monday night time when Dhankhar accused Derek O’Brien of doing “theatrics” within the Area to achieve exposure throughout a heated debate at the Delhi products and services invoice.

    The chair then adjourned the consultation until midday.