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  • ‘Our alliance shall be with folks’: Mamata Banerjee offers blow to grand Oppn alliance hopes

    By way of ANI

    KOLKATA: In a blow to hopes of a grand Opposition alliance in opposition to the BJP on the Centre, West Bengal Leader Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has vowed to head it by myself in subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha elections.

    Chatting with newshounds after the ruling TMC misplaced the Sagardighi bypoll in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, to the Congress on Thursday, Mamata mentioned the end result uncovered the “unholy alliance” of Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), Congress and the CPI(M), including that her birthday party may and can struggle all 3 rival political forces by myself.

    She additionally accused the 3 events of enjoying the “communal card”.

    “If the Congress and the CPI(M) struggle Mamata Banerjee with the assistance of the BJP, how can they name themselves anti-BJP? They all had been enjoying the communal card (to polarise electorate). That is very unlucky. This (defeat in Sagardighi) is a lesson for us, that we must not believe Congress or the CPI(M). We can not move with events which are with the BJP. Our alliance shall be with the folks. They (Congress) can have received the election however this can be a ethical defeat for them,” the TMC leader mentioned.

    Additional, weighing in at the TMC’s loss within the Sagardighi bypoll, Banerjee mentioned, “After all, we misplaced the bypoll. I do not blame somebody. In elections, there are victories and defeats. However it’s this immoral alliance between the opposite political events that we strongly condemn. As a part of this unholy alliance, all CPI(M) and BJP votes went to Congress. I need to ask those events, why are you going into such alliances covertly?”

    Left-backed Congress candidate Bayron Biswas received the Sagardighi bypolls, trouncing the TMC’s Debashish Banerjee through a whopping 22,986 votes.

    Talking at the TMC faring poorly within the Meghalaya election, the Bengal CM mentioned, “There used to be some confusion in Meghalaya. Electorate concept that I used to be additionally with Congress as each events have the phrase ‘Congress’ in not unusual. Since I used to be with the Congress previous, the electorate can have been puzzled seeing my footage from the Congress days. We will paintings to take away all confusion.”

    “I should congratulate the folks of Meghalaya (for serving to TMC win 5 seats). We (TMC) began (campaigning in Meghalaya) simply 6 months in the past and nonetheless were given 15 in step with cent of the overall votes polled. This will likely assist fortify our nationwide birthday party standing and in addition allow us to reinforce our cling at the state because the essential Opposition birthday party. We will do higher within the subsequent elections,” the Bengal CM added/

    In line with the overall tally of seats launched through the Election Fee, the BJP crossed the bulk mark in Tripura, profitable 32 seats and garnering about 39 in step with cent of the overall votes polled.

    The fledgeling Tipra Motha led through royal scion Pradyut Deb Barman completed 2d in Tripura, profitable 13 seats.

    The CPI(M) and the Congress, which fought the Tripura polls in combination, bagged a mixed rely of 14 seats. The Indigenous Other people’s Entrance of Tripura (IPFT), an best friend of the BJP, received a lone seat.

    Considerably, then again, the TMC may now not open its account in Tripura.

    The CPI(M) and the Congress, arch opponents in Kerala, got here in combination within the Northeast this time in a bid to oust the BJP from energy. On the other hand, the mixed vote percentage of the CPI(M) and Congress used to be simplest about 33 in step with cent.

    Previous, Mamata had referred to as for Opposition harmony to struggle the BJP in subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha polls.

    Banerjee, in the meantime, additionally hailed the route of the Charter bench of the Superb Court docket, to represent a panel comprising the Top Minister, the Chief of the Opposition and the Leader Justice of India, to choose leader election commissioners.

    “Most effective the SC, our very best judiciary and the pillar of democracy, can give protection to our democratic rights and save this nation. The TMC have been pleading for this (route) for an extended and I’m in reality glad that the SC issued this order. This can be a victory for the folks.”

    KOLKATA: In a blow to hopes of a grand Opposition alliance in opposition to the BJP on the Centre, West Bengal Leader Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has vowed to head it by myself in subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha elections.

    Chatting with newshounds after the ruling TMC misplaced the Sagardighi bypoll in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district, to the Congress on Thursday, Mamata mentioned the end result uncovered the “unholy alliance” of Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP), Congress and the CPI(M), including that her birthday party may and can struggle all 3 rival political forces by myself.

    She additionally accused the 3 events of enjoying the “communal card”.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “If the Congress and the CPI(M) struggle Mamata Banerjee with the assistance of the BJP, how can they name themselves anti-BJP? They all had been enjoying the communal card (to polarise electorate). That is very unlucky. This (defeat in Sagardighi) is a lesson for us, that we must not believe Congress or the CPI(M). We can not move with events which are with the BJP. Our alliance shall be with the folks. They (Congress) can have received the election however this can be a ethical defeat for them,” the TMC leader mentioned.

    Additional, weighing in at the TMC’s loss within the Sagardighi bypoll, Banerjee mentioned, “After all, we misplaced the bypoll. I do not blame somebody. In elections, there are victories and defeats. However it’s this immoral alliance between the opposite political events that we strongly condemn. As a part of this unholy alliance, all CPI(M) and BJP votes went to Congress. I need to ask those events, why are you going into such alliances covertly?”

    Left-backed Congress candidate Bayron Biswas received the Sagardighi bypolls, trouncing the TMC’s Debashish Banerjee through a whopping 22,986 votes.

    Talking at the TMC faring poorly within the Meghalaya election, the Bengal CM mentioned, “There used to be some confusion in Meghalaya. Electorate concept that I used to be additionally with Congress as each events have the phrase ‘Congress’ in not unusual. Since I used to be with the Congress previous, the electorate can have been puzzled seeing my footage from the Congress days. We will paintings to take away all confusion.”

    “I should congratulate the folks of Meghalaya (for serving to TMC win 5 seats). We (TMC) began (campaigning in Meghalaya) simply 6 months in the past and nonetheless were given 15 in step with cent of the overall votes polled. This will likely assist fortify our nationwide birthday party standing and in addition allow us to reinforce our cling at the state because the essential Opposition birthday party. We will do higher within the subsequent elections,” the Bengal CM added/

    In line with the overall tally of seats launched through the Election Fee, the BJP crossed the bulk mark in Tripura, profitable 32 seats and garnering about 39 in step with cent of the overall votes polled.

    The fledgeling Tipra Motha led through royal scion Pradyut Deb Barman completed 2d in Tripura, profitable 13 seats.

    The CPI(M) and the Congress, which fought the Tripura polls in combination, bagged a mixed rely of 14 seats. The Indigenous Other people’s Entrance of Tripura (IPFT), an best friend of the BJP, received a lone seat.

    Considerably, then again, the TMC may now not open its account in Tripura.

    The CPI(M) and the Congress, arch opponents in Kerala, got here in combination within the Northeast this time in a bid to oust the BJP from energy. On the other hand, the mixed vote percentage of the CPI(M) and Congress used to be simplest about 33 in step with cent.

    Previous, Mamata had referred to as for Opposition harmony to struggle the BJP in subsequent yr’s Lok Sabha polls.

    Banerjee, in the meantime, additionally hailed the route of the Charter bench of the Superb Court docket, to represent a panel comprising the Top Minister, the Chief of the Opposition and the Leader Justice of India, to choose leader election commissioners.

    “Most effective the SC, our very best judiciary and the pillar of democracy, can give protection to our democratic rights and save this nation. The TMC have been pleading for this (route) for an extended and I’m in reality glad that the SC issued this order. This can be a victory for the folks.”

  • Meghalaya elections: Ex-CM Mukul Sangma says it’s going to be TMC vs all events in state

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    TURA: Former Meghalaya Leader Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) stalwart Dr Mukul Sangma mentioned the February 27 elections within the state can be a competition between the TMC and all different events in combination.

    Pointing out that the TMC can be a “issue” for different events, he claimed that the folks’s need for a metamorphosis was once “palpable” and “visual” at the floor.

    “As we pass to elections, the TMC is on one aspect and the opposite events in combination are at the different aspect. The (six) events within the ruling dispensation have all the time been in combination but if they pass to election hustings, they display their respective identification. On the other hand, the folk of the state are totally conscious about the bottom realities. There’s a need for a metamorphosis,” Sangma claimed whilst speaking to this newspaper at the sidelines of a TMC rally at Rangsakona, 40 km from Tura within the Garo Hills. 

    He mentioned this is a query of which celebration folks can take the duty of charting the way forward for the state, including that Meghalaya is a sufferer of now not only a loss of governance however the greed of politicians. 

    Sangma additionally mentioned that the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, which Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma’s Nationwide Folks’s Celebration (NPP) heads, was once going through more than a few fees of corruption and that every one its constituents had been jointly chargeable for it.

    Sangma then slammed the federal government over the unlawful mining of coal and the non-appointment of number one faculty lecturers. He mentioned many government-run number one faculties are closed as a result of lecturers weren’t appointed to vacant posts. “The federal government has intentionally not on time the beginning of the criminal coal mining procedure as a result of this permits it to proceed to interact in the type of illegalities which can be happening which has drawn the eye of the judiciary. The size at which it is going on can not occur with out the patronage of government. Coal isn’t a state matter however a central authorities matter. How can the BJP stay silent?” he requested. 

    The state will witness a multi-party contest. The TMC, NPP, BJP and Congress are contesting all 60 seats. Then, there are a number of smaller regional events.

    The Congress had emerged as the one biggest celebration in 2018 by way of successful 21 seats however the NPP shaped a coalition authorities with fortify from the BJP and regional events.

    For this election, the TMC, a brand new entrant, is all charged as much as disenchanted the NPP apple cart. Sensing that the goings is probably not simple for the NPP which faces a chain of corruption fees, the TMC’s central management has centered extra on Meghalaya than Tripura which goes to polls on February 16.

    INTERVIEW | 3-corner Meghalaya contest: Conrad says break up in Oppn votes to lend a hand NPP

    The TMC, in the meantime, had a backdoor access into Meghalaya. It had no base within the state however in November 2021, twelve Congress MLAs, led by way of Sangma merged themselves with the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration. The improvement had made the TMC the state’s fundamental opposition celebration in a single day. On the other hand, later, 4 MLAs ditched the TMC sooner or later.

    Sangma mentioned the rage of MLAs defecting to different events in Meghalaya began in 2018. He mentioned he had hand over the Congress because it was once being managed by way of Assam’s BJP Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. “In the Assam elections, the Congress applicants had been determined by way of Himanta Biswa Sarma. In Meghalaya too, he determined the Congress applicants. That is the Congress. So why must I be within the Congress?” he requested.

    TURA: Former Meghalaya Leader Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) stalwart Dr Mukul Sangma mentioned the February 27 elections within the state can be a competition between the TMC and all different events in combination.

    Pointing out that the TMC can be a “issue” for different events, he claimed that the folks’s need for a metamorphosis was once “palpable” and “visual” at the floor.

    “As we pass to elections, the TMC is on one aspect and the opposite events in combination are at the different aspect. The (six) events within the ruling dispensation have all the time been in combination but if they pass to election hustings, they display their respective identification. On the other hand, the folk of the state are totally conscious about the bottom realities. There’s a need for a metamorphosis,” Sangma claimed whilst speaking to this newspaper at the sidelines of a TMC rally at Rangsakona, 40 km from Tura within the Garo Hills. 

    He mentioned this is a query of which celebration folks can take the duty of charting the way forward for the state, including that Meghalaya is a sufferer of now not only a loss of governance however the greed of politicians. 

    Sangma additionally mentioned that the ruling Meghalaya Democratic Alliance, which Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma’s Nationwide Folks’s Celebration (NPP) heads, was once going through more than a few fees of corruption and that every one its constituents had been jointly chargeable for it.

    Sangma then slammed the federal government over the unlawful mining of coal and the non-appointment of number one faculty lecturers. He mentioned many government-run number one faculties are closed as a result of lecturers weren’t appointed to vacant posts. “The federal government has intentionally not on time the beginning of the criminal coal mining procedure as a result of this permits it to proceed to interact in the type of illegalities which can be happening which has drawn the eye of the judiciary. The size at which it is going on can not occur with out the patronage of government. Coal isn’t a state matter however a central authorities matter. How can the BJP stay silent?” he requested. 

    The state will witness a multi-party contest. The TMC, NPP, BJP and Congress are contesting all 60 seats. Then, there are a number of smaller regional events.

    The Congress had emerged as the one biggest celebration in 2018 by way of successful 21 seats however the NPP shaped a coalition authorities with fortify from the BJP and regional events.

    For this election, the TMC, a brand new entrant, is all charged as much as disenchanted the NPP apple cart. Sensing that the goings is probably not simple for the NPP which faces a chain of corruption fees, the TMC’s central management has centered extra on Meghalaya than Tripura which goes to polls on February 16.

    INTERVIEW | 3-corner Meghalaya contest: Conrad says break up in Oppn votes to lend a hand NPP

    The TMC, in the meantime, had a backdoor access into Meghalaya. It had no base within the state however in November 2021, twelve Congress MLAs, led by way of Sangma merged themselves with the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration. The improvement had made the TMC the state’s fundamental opposition celebration in a single day. On the other hand, later, 4 MLAs ditched the TMC sooner or later.

    Sangma mentioned the rage of MLAs defecting to different events in Meghalaya began in 2018. He mentioned he had hand over the Congress because it was once being managed by way of Assam’s BJP Leader Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma. “In the Assam elections, the Congress applicants had been determined by way of Himanta Biswa Sarma. In Meghalaya too, he determined the Congress applicants. That is the Congress. So why must I be within the Congress?” he requested.

  • TMC is ‘Terror, Mafia, Corruption’, other people will quickly bid adieu to ‘jungle raj’ in Bengal: Nadda 

    Nadda additionally mentioned that West Bengal, in spite of having a girl leader minister, 'tops' the chart relating to crime in opposition to ladies.

  • Six MPs, 13 MLAs from BJP able to sign up for us, we planted them as moles, says TMC

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    KOLKATA: An afternoon after a BJP MLA joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Bengal’s ruling birthday party claimed that many from the saffron camp’s MPs and MLAs are lining up for leaping send. The TMC additionally claimed to have planted the yet-to-be-defected BJP legislators and MPs as moles within the saffron camp.

    “No less than six MPs and 13 MLAs are able to sign up for the TMC. Birthday party supremo Mamata Banerjee and nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee will take the overall name. A lot of them already met Abhishek at his Camac Side road place of job and the executive minister throughout her district consult with,” mentioned TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.

    Ghosh additionally made it transparent that the birthday party is in common contact with the BJP’s elected representatives prepared to return to the fold of the ruling birthday party.

    “We informed them to be in their very own birthday party, attend all of the conferences chaired through their management and knowledgeable us concerning the mins of the discussions,’’ he mentioned.

    Elaborating on what’s prompting the TMC top command to induct the turncoats, Ghosh mentioned the birthday party is discussing the problem with the native management from the place the BJP MPs and MLAs had been elected.

    “We wish to perceive the heartbeat of the native management and their response if the BJP turncoats are given get entry to to our birthday party. We will be able to tell the executive minister about our findings and she is going to take the overall resolution,’’ mentioned Ghosh.    

    Inflicting a jolt to BJP’s north Bengal stronghold, Suman Kanjilal, an MLA from Alipurduar of the saffron camp on Sunday defected to the Trinamool Congress. With the defection of Kanjilal, BJP’s energy within the Meeting has come right down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs joined the ruling TMC previous.

    Two MPs, who contested within the 2021 Meeting elections and gained, determined to serve as because the representatives within the decrease area of the Parliament.  

    Ghosh, then again, refused to touch upon how lots of the six MPs and 13 MLAs are from BJP’s north Bengal fortress.

    BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar described Ghosh’s declare as an effort to divert other people’s consideration from the continued factor of corruption through TMC functionaries. “Although I settle for that 13 corrupt MLAs will sign up for the TMC, will they have the ability to steer clear of lawful motion through legislation implementing businesses?’’ he requested.  

    KOLKATA: An afternoon after a BJP MLA joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Bengal’s ruling birthday party claimed that many from the saffron camp’s MPs and MLAs are lining up for leaping send. The TMC additionally claimed to have planted the yet-to-be-defected BJP legislators and MPs as moles within the saffron camp.

    “No less than six MPs and 13 MLAs are able to sign up for the TMC. Birthday party supremo Mamata Banerjee and nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee will take the overall name. A lot of them already met Abhishek at his Camac Side road place of job and the executive minister throughout her district consult with,” mentioned TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.

    Ghosh additionally made it transparent that the birthday party is in common contact with the BJP’s elected representatives prepared to return to the fold of the ruling birthday party.

    “We informed them to be in their very own birthday party, attend all of the conferences chaired through their management and knowledgeable us concerning the mins of the discussions,’’ he mentioned.

    Elaborating on what’s prompting the TMC top command to induct the turncoats, Ghosh mentioned the birthday party is discussing the problem with the native management from the place the BJP MPs and MLAs had been elected.

    “We wish to perceive the heartbeat of the native management and their response if the BJP turncoats are given get entry to to our birthday party. We will be able to tell the executive minister about our findings and she is going to take the overall resolution,’’ mentioned Ghosh.    

    Inflicting a jolt to BJP’s north Bengal stronghold, Suman Kanjilal, an MLA from Alipurduar of the saffron camp on Sunday defected to the Trinamool Congress. With the defection of Kanjilal, BJP’s energy within the Meeting has come right down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs joined the ruling TMC previous.

    Two MPs, who contested within the 2021 Meeting elections and gained, determined to serve as because the representatives within the decrease area of the Parliament.  

    Ghosh, then again, refused to touch upon how lots of the six MPs and 13 MLAs are from BJP’s north Bengal fortress.

    BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar described Ghosh’s declare as an effort to divert other people’s consideration from the continued factor of corruption through TMC functionaries. “Although I settle for that 13 corrupt MLAs will sign up for the TMC, will they have the ability to steer clear of lawful motion through legislation implementing businesses?’’ he requested.  

  • Two TMC employees killed in bomb blast in Bengal’s Birbhum; SP transferred

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: Two ruling Trinamool Congress employees on a bike have been killed when bombs have been hurled at them in West Bengal’s Birbhum district forward of the panchayat elections, the police stated on Sunday.

    Whilst the opposition BJP and the Congress alleged that the killings have been a fallout of the TMC’s infighting, the ruling get together pointed palms on the grand outdated get together of India.

    The superintendent of police of the district used to be transferred inside of 24 hours of the incident, although the management claimed that the transfer isn’t associated with the killings.

    TMC employees Newton Sheikh and his better half Laltu Sheikh, brother of the native panchayat leader, have been going someplace on a motorbike when some miscreants hurled bombs at them on Saturday night, police stated.

    Whilst Newton died at evening, Laltu succumbed to his accidents at SSKM Sanatorium in Kolkata, the place he used to be shifted from Rampurhat Sanatorium within the district.

    The relations of the deceased individuals alleged that the bombs have been thrown by way of goons of the Congress because the get together used to be fearful of the “expanding reputation” of the 2 within the space forward of the panchayat polls due this yr.

    Countering their claims, West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated the get together has little presence at Margram so that you can perform such an assault.

    “We all know that the attackers and sufferers each belong to the TMC,” Chowdhury claimed.

    BJP nationwide Vice-President Dilip Ghosh stated, “TMC activists are attacking themselves and getting killed within the struggle to get the spoils over minimize cash. The placement will finish handiest after the removing of this regime.”

    West Bengal minister and senior TMC chief Firhad Hakim, on the other hand, denied there may be any intra-party competition at the back of the killings.

    Giving a twist to the incident, Hakim questioned whether or not Maoists might be concerned within the assault as Birbhum district stocks borders with Jharkhand the place the pink rebels are lively.

    The police must examine all sides to learn how and why the 2 have been attacked, Hakim stated in Kolkata.

    In the meantime, the West Bengal executive on Sunday transferred Birbhum district Superintendent of Police Nagendra Nath Tripathi and taken every other IPS officer Bhaskar Mukherjee in his position.

    A notification from the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ stated Tripathi has been requested to take over as an officer on particular accountability (OSD) at West Bengal Police Directorate right away.

    Mukherjee used to be the SP of the Sunderban Police District.

    He’s going to get replaced by way of Koteswara Rao Nalavath, the SP (headquarters), Anti-Corruption Department, the notification stated.

    A senior authentic of the state secretariat described the mini reshuffle in IPS ranks as “purely administrative” although it used to be effected inside of an afternoon of the killing of 2 TMC activists.

    Ghosh claimed that IPS officials, “regardless of pledging loyalty to the ruling get together”, are being shunted and this can be a unhappy remark over the present state of affairs.

    “This beauty step is not going to lend a hand in unearthing the massive selection of crude bombs stockpiled by way of the ruling get together forward of the panchayat elections,” the BJP chief stated.

    TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen, on the other hand, stated it used to be a purely administrative resolution.

    KOLKATA: Two ruling Trinamool Congress employees on a bike have been killed when bombs have been hurled at them in West Bengal’s Birbhum district forward of the panchayat elections, the police stated on Sunday.

    Whilst the opposition BJP and the Congress alleged that the killings have been a fallout of the TMC’s infighting, the ruling get together pointed palms on the grand outdated get together of India.

    The superintendent of police of the district used to be transferred inside of 24 hours of the incident, although the management claimed that the transfer isn’t associated with the killings.

    TMC employees Newton Sheikh and his better half Laltu Sheikh, brother of the native panchayat leader, have been going someplace on a motorbike when some miscreants hurled bombs at them on Saturday night, police stated.

    Whilst Newton died at evening, Laltu succumbed to his accidents at SSKM Sanatorium in Kolkata, the place he used to be shifted from Rampurhat Sanatorium within the district.

    The relations of the deceased individuals alleged that the bombs have been thrown by way of goons of the Congress because the get together used to be fearful of the “expanding reputation” of the 2 within the space forward of the panchayat polls due this yr.

    Countering their claims, West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury stated the get together has little presence at Margram so that you can perform such an assault.

    “We all know that the attackers and sufferers each belong to the TMC,” Chowdhury claimed.

    BJP nationwide Vice-President Dilip Ghosh stated, “TMC activists are attacking themselves and getting killed within the struggle to get the spoils over minimize cash. The placement will finish handiest after the removing of this regime.”

    West Bengal minister and senior TMC chief Firhad Hakim, on the other hand, denied there may be any intra-party competition at the back of the killings.

    Giving a twist to the incident, Hakim questioned whether or not Maoists might be concerned within the assault as Birbhum district stocks borders with Jharkhand the place the pink rebels are lively.

    The police must examine all sides to learn how and why the 2 have been attacked, Hakim stated in Kolkata.

    In the meantime, the West Bengal executive on Sunday transferred Birbhum district Superintendent of Police Nagendra Nath Tripathi and taken every other IPS officer Bhaskar Mukherjee in his position.

    A notification from the state secretariat ‘Nabanna’ stated Tripathi has been requested to take over as an officer on particular accountability (OSD) at West Bengal Police Directorate right away.

    Mukherjee used to be the SP of the Sunderban Police District.

    He’s going to get replaced by way of Koteswara Rao Nalavath, the SP (headquarters), Anti-Corruption Department, the notification stated.

    A senior authentic of the state secretariat described the mini reshuffle in IPS ranks as “purely administrative” although it used to be effected inside of an afternoon of the killing of 2 TMC activists.

    Ghosh claimed that IPS officials, “regardless of pledging loyalty to the ruling get together”, are being shunted and this can be a unhappy remark over the present state of affairs.

    “This beauty step is not going to lend a hand in unearthing the massive selection of crude bombs stockpiled by way of the ruling get together forward of the panchayat elections,” the BJP chief stated.

    TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen, on the other hand, stated it used to be a purely administrative resolution.

  • BJP’s North Bengal MLA Suman Kanjilal joins TMC

    By means of Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: In a jolt to BJP’s north Bengal stronghold, an MLA from Alipurduar of the saffron camp on Sunday defected to the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

    Suman Kanjilal, a BJP MLA from the north Bengal constituency, joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress’s nationwide common secretary and nephew of West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee.  

    With the defection of Kanjilal, BJP’s power within the Meeting has come all the way down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs had joined the ruling TMC previous. Two MPs, who had contested within the 2021 Meeting elections and gained, made up our minds to serve as as representatives within the decrease area of the Parliament.

    “As an MLA, I wish to paintings for the typical other folks. I mentioned it with the executive minister. I made up our minds to enroll in the TMC to paintings higher for the folks. I sought after to accomplish extra when I used to be a BJP MLA the usage of the schemes of the Union govt. However I may just now not as a result of many tasks have been stalled via the BJP-led Centre,’’ stated Kanjilal.

    Kanjilal’s exchange in political allegiance is alleged to be vital forward of the panchayat elections within the state.

    Regardless that the TMC had secured a sweeping victory via bagging 214 seats out of 292 within the 2021 Meeting polls, the birthday party failed to go away a footprint within the Alipurduar district because the BJP secured victory in all 5 seats.

    “The individuals who voted for the BJP within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and 2021 Meeting polls are disenchanted. They realised there’s no selection political pressure instead of the TMC which is able to be offering just right governance,” stated a senior TMC chief, including that there have been extra surprises looking forward to the BJP in North Bengal.

    Within the 2019 common elections, the BJP bagged 18 seats out of 42 in Bengal of which seven have been from north Bengal.

    KOLKATA: In a jolt to BJP’s north Bengal stronghold, an MLA from Alipurduar of the saffron camp on Sunday defected to the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

    Suman Kanjilal, a BJP MLA from the north Bengal constituency, joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress’s nationwide common secretary and nephew of West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee.  

    With the defection of Kanjilal, BJP’s power within the Meeting has come all the way down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs had joined the ruling TMC previous. Two MPs, who had contested within the 2021 Meeting elections and gained, made up our minds to serve as as representatives within the decrease area of the Parliament.

    “As an MLA, I wish to paintings for the typical other folks. I mentioned it with the executive minister. I made up our minds to enroll in the TMC to paintings higher for the folks. I sought after to accomplish extra when I used to be a BJP MLA the usage of the schemes of the Union govt. However I may just now not as a result of many tasks have been stalled via the BJP-led Centre,’’ stated Kanjilal.

    Kanjilal’s exchange in political allegiance is alleged to be vital forward of the panchayat elections within the state.

    Regardless that the TMC had secured a sweeping victory via bagging 214 seats out of 292 within the 2021 Meeting polls, the birthday party failed to go away a footprint within the Alipurduar district because the BJP secured victory in all 5 seats.

    “The individuals who voted for the BJP within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and 2021 Meeting polls are disenchanted. They realised there’s no selection political pressure instead of the TMC which is able to be offering just right governance,” stated a senior TMC chief, including that there have been extra surprises looking forward to the BJP in North Bengal.

    Within the 2019 common elections, the BJP bagged 18 seats out of 42 in Bengal of which seven have been from north Bengal.

  • TMC panel meets households of stampede sufferers in Bengal’s Asansol, assures lend a hand

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: A five-member TMC delegation on Sunday met the households of the ones killed within the stampede in Bengal’s Asansol, and confident all conceivable help to them.

    The delegation, led by way of state business minister Shashi Panja, additionally prolonged monetary lend a hand to the households.

    Six folks had been arrested for his or her alleged position in triggering a stampede on Wednesday all through a blanket distribution programme of the BJP, which left two girls and a 14-year-old lady useless and 5 injured.

    Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who had additionally attended the non secular tournament, left sooner than the blanket distribution initiative started.

    The police had mentioned that no permission used to be given for the blanket distribution programme.

    The Mamata Banerjee executive had previous introduced Rs 2 lakh as repayment for each and every of the households of the deceased, and Rs 50,000 for the injured.

    Panja, all through the discuss with, blamed native BJP leaders, together with former Asansol mayor Jitendra Tewary and his councillor spouse Chaitali, for the tragedy, pointing out that “that they had disbursed tokens for blankets amongst 5,000 folks however the venue had house to deal with simply 500 folks”.

    She flayed Adhikari for attending a non secular tournament.

    “BJP leaders, in a bid to woo folks and get votes, organised a programme with minimal fear for security and safety of human lives. Can they carry again the 14-year-old lady, and two different girls whose deaths left their households shattered,” she mentioned.

    The TMC crew, additionally comprising ministers Babul Supriyo, Partha Bhowmik and Malay Ghatak, at the side of TMC state early life wing president Saayoni Ghosh, had been noticed consoling the relations of the deceased.

    “We’re all there that will help you. Our staff shall be incessantly for your aspect,” Ghatak, the state’s regulation minister, used to be heard telling the members of the family.

    BJP chief Jitendra Tewary, alternatively, criticised the Bengal’s ruling birthday celebration for “politicising the incident”.

    “At this hour of grief, they’re crowding flats of the bereaved households and irritating their peace,” he claimed.

    KOLKATA: A five-member TMC delegation on Sunday met the households of the ones killed within the stampede in Bengal’s Asansol, and confident all conceivable help to them.

    The delegation, led by way of state business minister Shashi Panja, additionally prolonged monetary lend a hand to the households.

    Six folks had been arrested for his or her alleged position in triggering a stampede on Wednesday all through a blanket distribution programme of the BJP, which left two girls and a 14-year-old lady useless and 5 injured.

    Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who had additionally attended the non secular tournament, left sooner than the blanket distribution initiative started.

    The police had mentioned that no permission used to be given for the blanket distribution programme.

    The Mamata Banerjee executive had previous introduced Rs 2 lakh as repayment for each and every of the households of the deceased, and Rs 50,000 for the injured.

    Panja, all through the discuss with, blamed native BJP leaders, together with former Asansol mayor Jitendra Tewary and his councillor spouse Chaitali, for the tragedy, pointing out that “that they had disbursed tokens for blankets amongst 5,000 folks however the venue had house to deal with simply 500 folks”.

    She flayed Adhikari for attending a non secular tournament.

    “BJP leaders, in a bid to woo folks and get votes, organised a programme with minimal fear for security and safety of human lives. Can they carry again the 14-year-old lady, and two different girls whose deaths left their households shattered,” she mentioned.

    The TMC crew, additionally comprising ministers Babul Supriyo, Partha Bhowmik and Malay Ghatak, at the side of TMC state early life wing president Saayoni Ghosh, had been noticed consoling the relations of the deceased.

    “We’re all there that will help you. Our staff shall be incessantly for your aspect,” Ghatak, the state’s regulation minister, used to be heard telling the members of the family.

    BJP chief Jitendra Tewary, alternatively, criticised the Bengal’s ruling birthday celebration for “politicising the incident”.

    “At this hour of grief, they’re crowding flats of the bereaved households and irritating their peace,” he claimed.

  • ‘Trinamool now not a Bengali birthday celebration, I paintings for all of India’: Mamata in poll-bound Meghalaya

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    GUWAHATI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday mentioned the TMC isn’t a birthday celebration of West Bengal or the Bengalis as projected by way of its critics however of all India.

    On her maiden discuss with to Shillong in election-bound Meghalaya, Banerjee picked only the BJP for her assault.

    The BJP, which has two MLAs, is a constituent of the state’s ruling coalition which the Nationwide Folks’s Birthday celebration (NPP) heads.

    “There’s a hearsay that the Trinamool Congress is a Bengali birthday celebration. If this is a Bengali birthday celebration, why do other folks sing the nationwide track and the nationwide anthem, which have been written by way of Bankim Chandra (Chatterjee) and Rabindranath (Tagore) respectively?” Banerjee requested.

    She mentioned “Jai Hind” was once Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s slogan and that Mom Teresa had gained the Nobel Peace Prize from Kolkata. She requested if other folks would say these kinds of personalities belonged best to Bengal and now not India. 

    “Why do you divide other folks at the foundation of caste and faith? Allow us to stroll, suppose and talk in combination,” Banerjee mentioned. “I’m a Bengali too and I’m happy with it. I paintings for all of India. I served in different ministries and am a seven-time former MP. You’ll be able to’t say I will not come right here as a result of I’m a Bengali,” she added.

    Attacking the BJP, she mentioned the birthday celebration is “jealous” of the TMC. She mentioned the BJP had attempted its absolute best and “misused” energy within the final West Bengal elections however may now not defeat the TMC which gained by way of two/a 3rd majority. 

    She criticised the Meghalaya executive at the contemporary firing incident at the Assam border that left six individuals lifeless. She visited the homes of the 5 sufferers from Meghalaya and presented monetary help of Rs 5 lakh every.

    The TMC supremo promised that if TMC is voted to energy, it is going to be offering per month monetary help of Rs 1,000 every to 1 lady of each and every circle of relatives within the state.

    Banerjee made a number of different guarantees, together with fixing the border dispute. “You voted for such a lot of events. Vote for the TMC this time round. Our purpose isn’t to regulate Meghalaya from Kolkata. You’re going to rule it. We will be able to advise and information you,” the Bengal CM mentioned.

    Her nephew Abhishek Banerjee mentioned Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma, who heads the NPP, “deposited his backbone and the whole lot in Delhi”.

    The TMC normal secretary additionally slammed the state executive over the border firing incident. “The sufferers’ households are shattered. No birthday celebration stood by way of them. Now not a unmarried wrongdoer was once taken to process. No one was once even known as for interrogation,” he mentioned.

    The TMC had no base in Meghalaya however in November final yr, 12 of the 17 Congress MLAs jumped send, making the Banerjee-led birthday celebration the state’s predominant opposition dramatically in a single day.

    One of the most MLAs, Himalaya Shangpliang, ditched the birthday celebration lately to sign up for the BJP.

    GUWAHATI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday mentioned the TMC isn’t a birthday celebration of West Bengal or the Bengalis as projected by way of its critics however of all India.

    On her maiden discuss with to Shillong in election-bound Meghalaya, Banerjee picked only the BJP for her assault.

    The BJP, which has two MLAs, is a constituent of the state’s ruling coalition which the Nationwide Folks’s Birthday celebration (NPP) heads.

    “There’s a hearsay that the Trinamool Congress is a Bengali birthday celebration. If this is a Bengali birthday celebration, why do other folks sing the nationwide track and the nationwide anthem, which have been written by way of Bankim Chandra (Chatterjee) and Rabindranath (Tagore) respectively?” Banerjee requested.

    She mentioned “Jai Hind” was once Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s slogan and that Mom Teresa had gained the Nobel Peace Prize from Kolkata. She requested if other folks would say these kinds of personalities belonged best to Bengal and now not India. 

    “Why do you divide other folks at the foundation of caste and faith? Allow us to stroll, suppose and talk in combination,” Banerjee mentioned. “I’m a Bengali too and I’m happy with it. I paintings for all of India. I served in different ministries and am a seven-time former MP. You’ll be able to’t say I will not come right here as a result of I’m a Bengali,” she added.

    Attacking the BJP, she mentioned the birthday celebration is “jealous” of the TMC. She mentioned the BJP had attempted its absolute best and “misused” energy within the final West Bengal elections however may now not defeat the TMC which gained by way of two/a 3rd majority. 

    She criticised the Meghalaya executive at the contemporary firing incident at the Assam border that left six individuals lifeless. She visited the homes of the 5 sufferers from Meghalaya and presented monetary help of Rs 5 lakh every.

    The TMC supremo promised that if TMC is voted to energy, it is going to be offering per month monetary help of Rs 1,000 every to 1 lady of each and every circle of relatives within the state.

    Banerjee made a number of different guarantees, together with fixing the border dispute. “You voted for such a lot of events. Vote for the TMC this time round. Our purpose isn’t to regulate Meghalaya from Kolkata. You’re going to rule it. We will be able to advise and information you,” the Bengal CM mentioned.

    Her nephew Abhishek Banerjee mentioned Leader Minister Conrad Ok Sangma, who heads the NPP, “deposited his backbone and the whole lot in Delhi”.

    The TMC normal secretary additionally slammed the state executive over the border firing incident. “The sufferers’ households are shattered. No birthday celebration stood by way of them. Now not a unmarried wrongdoer was once taken to process. No one was once even known as for interrogation,” he mentioned.

    The TMC had no base in Meghalaya however in November final yr, 12 of the 17 Congress MLAs jumped send, making the Banerjee-led birthday celebration the state’s predominant opposition dramatically in a single day.

    One of the most MLAs, Himalaya Shangpliang, ditched the birthday celebration lately to sign up for the BJP.

  • Bengal: Birbhum killing high suspect discovered useless in CBI custody

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    KOLKATA:  The high accused in Birbhum’s Bogtui bloodbath, by which 12 individuals, together with two kids, had been charred to dying, was once discovered useless within the CBI’s custody beneath mysterious cases on Monday.

    The CBI assets stated that Lalan Sheikh (50) was once discovered placing within the bathroom adjacent to the room the place he was once lodged within the CBI’s camp place of business in Rampurhat. The medical doctors, who tested the frame, are but to establish whether or not Lalan died via suicide.

    On March 21, 4 homes had been set ablaze in Bogtui, which was once stated to be revenge for the homicide of the native deputy leader of a Trinamool Congress-dominated gram panchayat Bhadu Sheikh. Initial investigation printed the bloodbath was once a sequel to a contention between two factions throughout the TMC over the problem of accumulating cash from unlawful sand mining.

    Lalan was once arrested on December 4. The CBI was once passed over the probe via the Calcutta Prime Courtroom and the central company arrested a complete of 21 accused in reference to the bloodbath.  Because the mass killing, the primary time since Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee assumed place of business in 2011, become a device of the BJP to lift hue and cry alleging deteriorating legislation and order state of affairs within the state, the Bengal CM visited the spot and directed the police to arrest the TMC’s native block president Anarul Hossain.

    Police arrested Hossain, who was once at massive for days, inside 3 hours of Mamata’s instruction. In the meantime, the CBI has requested the NHRC to behavior an inquiry into the dying of Lalan.

    KOLKATA:  The high accused in Birbhum’s Bogtui bloodbath, by which 12 individuals, together with two kids, had been charred to dying, was once discovered useless within the CBI’s custody beneath mysterious cases on Monday.

    The CBI assets stated that Lalan Sheikh (50) was once discovered placing within the bathroom adjacent to the room the place he was once lodged within the CBI’s camp place of business in Rampurhat. The medical doctors, who tested the frame, are but to establish whether or not Lalan died via suicide.

    On March 21, 4 homes had been set ablaze in Bogtui, which was once stated to be revenge for the homicide of the native deputy leader of a Trinamool Congress-dominated gram panchayat Bhadu Sheikh. Initial investigation printed the bloodbath was once a sequel to a contention between two factions throughout the TMC over the problem of accumulating cash from unlawful sand mining.

    Lalan was once arrested on December 4. The CBI was once passed over the probe via the Calcutta Prime Courtroom and the central company arrested a complete of 21 accused in reference to the bloodbath.  Because the mass killing, the primary time since Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee assumed place of business in 2011, become a device of the BJP to lift hue and cry alleging deteriorating legislation and order state of affairs within the state, the Bengal CM visited the spot and directed the police to arrest the TMC’s native block president Anarul Hossain.

    Police arrested Hossain, who was once at massive for days, inside 3 hours of Mamata’s instruction. In the meantime, the CBI has requested the NHRC to behavior an inquiry into the dying of Lalan.

  • None can do any hurt to TMC, says jailed ex-minister Partha Chatterjee

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee, who’s in prison for his alleged involvement in a college recruitment rip-off, claimed on Monday that none can do any hurt to the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday party, indicating that he used to be nonetheless seeking to curry favour with its management.

    The previous Bengal minister, who used to be arrested on July 23 following restoration of money, jewelry and assets deeds from his alleged shut affiliate, prayed for his bail earlier than a unique CBI courtroom, which has reserved its order.

    The CBI is probing the recruitment rip-off on instructions of the Calcutta Top Court docket, and the Enforcement Directorate is having a look into the cash path related to the case.

    As Chatterjee were given off a car for his courtroom listening to, he used to be requested by means of newshounds to touch upon Chief of Opposition in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari’s statement that the times of the TMC are numbered and “main tendencies involving its leaders are at the playing cards in December”.

    The suspended chief used to be fast to respond that “none can do any hurt to the TMC; none can injury TMC’s potentialities”.

    The ruling birthday party in Bengal had got rid of Chatterjee from the state cupboard and all birthday party posts, but even so postponing him, in a while after he used to be arrested in July.

    Distancing the birthday party from Chatterjee, TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, when requested about his remark, mentioned the TMC does now not want Chatterjee’s certificates and has no relation with him.

    Ghosh, alternatively, asserted there’s no danger to the TMC, and BJP leaders are making absurd claims.

    But even so Adhikari, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar claimed on events that “the downfall of Mamata Banerjee authorities will start from this month (December).”

    The TMC spokesperson, chatting with newshounds, mentioned, “Leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Sukanta Majumdar haven’t any relevance, and they’re making such claims simply to stay in them information.

    Other folks of Bengal are with the TMC and we all know that,” he mentioned.

    BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya claimed that Chatterjee, former Faculty Provider Fee adviser SP Sinha and others arrested in reference to the case had simply “adopted directions of the highest management”.

    “Partha had at all times adhered to the programmes of the birthday party.

    Therefore it isn’t sudden that he’s nonetheless talking in the similar voice as TMC,” Bhattacharya instructed PTI.

    Chatterjee held the schooling portfolio between 2014 and 2021 when the irregularities in recruitment of training and non-teaching body of workers in state government-sponsored and -aided faculties had allegedly taken position.

    He held a number of portfolios, together with Business and Trade, throughout the time of his arrest.

    KOLKATA: Suspended TMC chief Partha Chatterjee, who’s in prison for his alleged involvement in a college recruitment rip-off, claimed on Monday that none can do any hurt to the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday party, indicating that he used to be nonetheless seeking to curry favour with its management.

    The previous Bengal minister, who used to be arrested on July 23 following restoration of money, jewelry and assets deeds from his alleged shut affiliate, prayed for his bail earlier than a unique CBI courtroom, which has reserved its order.

    The CBI is probing the recruitment rip-off on instructions of the Calcutta Top Court docket, and the Enforcement Directorate is having a look into the cash path related to the case.

    As Chatterjee were given off a car for his courtroom listening to, he used to be requested by means of newshounds to touch upon Chief of Opposition in Bengal Suvendu Adhikari’s statement that the times of the TMC are numbered and “main tendencies involving its leaders are at the playing cards in December”.

    The suspended chief used to be fast to respond that “none can do any hurt to the TMC; none can injury TMC’s potentialities”.

    The ruling birthday party in Bengal had got rid of Chatterjee from the state cupboard and all birthday party posts, but even so postponing him, in a while after he used to be arrested in July.

    Distancing the birthday party from Chatterjee, TMC state spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, when requested about his remark, mentioned the TMC does now not want Chatterjee’s certificates and has no relation with him.

    Ghosh, alternatively, asserted there’s no danger to the TMC, and BJP leaders are making absurd claims.

    But even so Adhikari, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar claimed on events that “the downfall of Mamata Banerjee authorities will start from this month (December).”

    The TMC spokesperson, chatting with newshounds, mentioned, “Leaders like Suvendu Adhikari and Sukanta Majumdar haven’t any relevance, and they’re making such claims simply to stay in them information.

    Other folks of Bengal are with the TMC and we all know that,” he mentioned.

    BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya claimed that Chatterjee, former Faculty Provider Fee adviser SP Sinha and others arrested in reference to the case had simply “adopted directions of the highest management”.

    “Partha had at all times adhered to the programmes of the birthday party.

    Therefore it isn’t sudden that he’s nonetheless talking in the similar voice as TMC,” Bhattacharya instructed PTI.

    Chatterjee held the schooling portfolio between 2014 and 2021 when the irregularities in recruitment of training and non-teaching body of workers in state government-sponsored and -aided faculties had allegedly taken position.

    He held a number of portfolios, together with Business and Trade, throughout the time of his arrest.