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  • WBSSC rip-off: Extra kinfolk of TMC leaders determine in record of terminated team of workers

    By means of IANS

    KOLKATA: Names of shut kinfolk of quite a lot of Trinamool Congress leaders together with ministers in West Bengal govt have surfaced within the record printed through West Bengal College Provider Fee (WBSSC) of the 842 non-teaching team of workers whose services and products had been terminated following an order of a single-judge bench of Calcutta Top Court docket.

    First on Saturday morning, the names of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee’s niece Bristy Mukherjee and minister Srikanta Mahata’s brother Khokan Mahata figured within the record. However as time handed since then identical associations with the state’s ruling birthday party surfaced within the record of terminated team of workers.

    The 141st identify within the record is that of Binota Mondal posted at Nandannagar Adarsha Uccha Balika Vidyalaya in North 24 Pagans district, who’s the daughter of Usha Rani Mondal, the Trinamool Congress MLA from Minakhan meeting constituency in the similar district.

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    The thirty seventh identify within the record is that of Amit Saha posted at Hatuganj Women Top College below Magrahat in South 24 Parganas district. He’s the Trinamool Congress councillor from Ward quantity 13 of Diamond Harbour Municipality and in addition the birthday party’s the city president in Diamond Harbour.

    The 687th identify within the record is that of Sudip Halder posted at Mouraltala Sitala Balika Vidyalaya. He’s the son of Joydeb Halder, Trinamool Congress legislator from Mandirtala meeting constituency in South 24 Parganas district.

    The 218th identify within the record is that of Dolon Biswas posted at Barasat Vivekananda Adarsha Vidyapith in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. She is the previous Trinamool Congress councillor from Barasat Municipality in the similar district.

    On Saturday after the names of leader minister’s great and minister Srikanta Mahata’s brother figured within the record of terminated applicants, BJP’s nationwide vice-president and birthday party’s Lok Sabha member, Dilip Ghosh stated that as time will move extra such names having family members with ruling birthday party heavyweights may floor.

    On Sunday, he stated that the record proves how the ruling birthday party has monopolised the recruitment procedure through adopting final corrupt practices.

    KOLKATA: Names of shut kinfolk of quite a lot of Trinamool Congress leaders together with ministers in West Bengal govt have surfaced within the record printed through West Bengal College Provider Fee (WBSSC) of the 842 non-teaching team of workers whose services and products had been terminated following an order of a single-judge bench of Calcutta Top Court docket.

    First on Saturday morning, the names of Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee’s niece Bristy Mukherjee and minister Srikanta Mahata’s brother Khokan Mahata figured within the record. However as time handed since then identical associations with the state’s ruling birthday party surfaced within the record of terminated team of workers.

    The 141st identify within the record is that of Binota Mondal posted at Nandannagar Adarsha Uccha Balika Vidyalaya in North 24 Pagans district, who’s the daughter of Usha Rani Mondal, the Trinamool Congress MLA from Minakhan meeting constituency in the similar district.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    ALSO READ | SSC row: CBI says Partha Chatterjee mastermind of college jobs rip-off

    The thirty seventh identify within the record is that of Amit Saha posted at Hatuganj Women Top College below Magrahat in South 24 Parganas district. He’s the Trinamool Congress councillor from Ward quantity 13 of Diamond Harbour Municipality and in addition the birthday party’s the city president in Diamond Harbour.

    The 687th identify within the record is that of Sudip Halder posted at Mouraltala Sitala Balika Vidyalaya. He’s the son of Joydeb Halder, Trinamool Congress legislator from Mandirtala meeting constituency in South 24 Parganas district.

    The 218th identify within the record is that of Dolon Biswas posted at Barasat Vivekananda Adarsha Vidyapith in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. She is the previous Trinamool Congress councillor from Barasat Municipality in the similar district.

    On Saturday after the names of leader minister’s great and minister Srikanta Mahata’s brother figured within the record of terminated applicants, BJP’s nationwide vice-president and birthday party’s Lok Sabha member, Dilip Ghosh stated that as time will move extra such names having family members with ruling birthday party heavyweights may floor.

    On Sunday, he stated that the record proves how the ruling birthday party has monopolised the recruitment procedure through adopting final corrupt practices.

  • TMC to take care of equidistance from BJP and Cong, eyes forming crew of regional events

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: Following the below-expectation efficiency of the Trinamool Congress within the Northeast, the birthday celebration is converting its political technique via making ready to take care of equidistance from the BJP and the Congress and in search of to shape a bunch of regional outfits hostile to each camps.

    In Tripura, the TMC bagged lower than the votes polled via NOTA, whilst in Meghalaya, the birthday celebration’s tally got here down to 5 from 11.

    The Mamata Banerjee-led birthday celebration additionally suffered a big dissatisfied in West Bengal’s Sagardighi, a minority-dominated meeting constituency which was once prior to now held via the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday celebration.

    “Our technique nationally might be keeping up equidistance from each the BJP and the Congress. We would like different opposition events who wish to battle the BJP however are hostile to the Congress to return in combination and paintings as a united opposition entrance. We’re already in talks with events equivalent to BRS (erstwhile TRS), AAP and others. This technique might be mirrored within the subsequent Parliament consultation,” Chief of the TMC parliamentary birthday celebration in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay advised PTI.

    Banerjee had additionally not too long ago introduced that the birthday celebration would cross it on my own within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

    The verdict additionally got here after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in addition to CPI(M) leaders accused the TMC of serving to the BJP via dividing opposition votes.

    Veteran TMC chief and MP Sougata Roy mentioned that because the Lok Sabha elections are nonetheless a yr away, the location will additional evolve within the days to return.

    “Let’s examine how issues form up, as 4 main states will cross to polls this yr. The political scenario will additional evolve via the tip of this yr,” Roy mentioned.

    Meeting elections might be held in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka this yr.

    Relating to the hot letter written via leaders of 9 opposition events – minus the Congress, Left events, JD(U), DMK and JD(S) – to Top Minister Narendra Modi on “blatant misuse” of central businesses, Roy advised PTI that it’s “only the start.”

    Attacking the grand previous birthday celebration for its “large brother angle”, TMC leader spokesperson Sukhendu Sekhar Roy mentioned, “The Congress is but to return to phrases with the converting fact of Indian politics. It has miserably failed within the final 9 years in combating the BJP. So we will be able to attempt to align with robust forces of their respective states,” he mentioned.

    The TMC had additionally abstained from vote casting within the Vice-Presidential polls final yr.

    Chief of the Congress birthday celebration in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alternatively dubbed the TMC’s effort to carry in combination opposition events minus the Congress as an “try to lend a hand the BJP,”

    “You do not wish to be a political pundit to know the function some opposition events just like the TMC are enjoying to lend a hand the BJP. The TMC is now remoted nationally because it stands unmasked as a stooge of the BJP,” he mentioned.

    CPI (M) state secretary Mohammed Salim claimed the TMC lacks credibility within the battle towards the BJP.

    Assistant Professor of Political Science Centre for Research in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Maidul Islam mentioned the speculation of bringing in combination regional events is an concept which was once as soon as mulled via Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu within the identify of the 3rd Entrance within the eighties and nineties and later driven via Banerjee in with the identify of Federal Entrance in 2014.

    Political scientist Biswanath Chakraborty mentioned any try to forge an opposition team spirit sans the Congress is destined to fail. “For those who cross via numbers, you can’t have any opposition entrance minus the Congress if you’re fascinated with combating the BJP. For those who attempt to forge such a entrance, it is going to best lend a hand the BJP,” he mentioned.

    KOLKATA: Following the below-expectation efficiency of the Trinamool Congress within the Northeast, the birthday celebration is converting its political technique via making ready to take care of equidistance from the BJP and the Congress and in search of to shape a bunch of regional outfits hostile to each camps.

    In Tripura, the TMC bagged lower than the votes polled via NOTA, whilst in Meghalaya, the birthday celebration’s tally got here down to 5 from 11.

    The Mamata Banerjee-led birthday celebration additionally suffered a big dissatisfied in West Bengal’s Sagardighi, a minority-dominated meeting constituency which was once prior to now held via the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday celebration.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    “Our technique nationally might be keeping up equidistance from each the BJP and the Congress. We would like different opposition events who wish to battle the BJP however are hostile to the Congress to return in combination and paintings as a united opposition entrance. We’re already in talks with events equivalent to BRS (erstwhile TRS), AAP and others. This technique might be mirrored within the subsequent Parliament consultation,” Chief of the TMC parliamentary birthday celebration in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay advised PTI.

    Banerjee had additionally not too long ago introduced that the birthday celebration would cross it on my own within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

    The verdict additionally got here after Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in addition to CPI(M) leaders accused the TMC of serving to the BJP via dividing opposition votes.

    Veteran TMC chief and MP Sougata Roy mentioned that because the Lok Sabha elections are nonetheless a yr away, the location will additional evolve within the days to return.

    “Let’s examine how issues form up, as 4 main states will cross to polls this yr. The political scenario will additional evolve via the tip of this yr,” Roy mentioned.

    Meeting elections might be held in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Karnataka this yr.

    Relating to the hot letter written via leaders of 9 opposition events – minus the Congress, Left events, JD(U), DMK and JD(S) – to Top Minister Narendra Modi on “blatant misuse” of central businesses, Roy advised PTI that it’s “only the start.”

    Attacking the grand previous birthday celebration for its “large brother angle”, TMC leader spokesperson Sukhendu Sekhar Roy mentioned, “The Congress is but to return to phrases with the converting fact of Indian politics. It has miserably failed within the final 9 years in combating the BJP. So we will be able to attempt to align with robust forces of their respective states,” he mentioned.

    The TMC had additionally abstained from vote casting within the Vice-Presidential polls final yr.

    Chief of the Congress birthday celebration in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alternatively dubbed the TMC’s effort to carry in combination opposition events minus the Congress as an “try to lend a hand the BJP,”

    “You do not wish to be a political pundit to know the function some opposition events just like the TMC are enjoying to lend a hand the BJP. The TMC is now remoted nationally because it stands unmasked as a stooge of the BJP,” he mentioned.

    CPI (M) state secretary Mohammed Salim claimed the TMC lacks credibility within the battle towards the BJP.

    Assistant Professor of Political Science Centre for Research in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Maidul Islam mentioned the speculation of bringing in combination regional events is an concept which was once as soon as mulled via Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu within the identify of the 3rd Entrance within the eighties and nineties and later driven via Banerjee in with the identify of Federal Entrance in 2014.

    Political scientist Biswanath Chakraborty mentioned any try to forge an opposition team spirit sans the Congress is destined to fail. “For those who cross via numbers, you can’t have any opposition entrance minus the Congress if you’re fascinated with combating the BJP. For those who attempt to forge such a entrance, it is going to best lend a hand the BJP,” he mentioned.

  • ‘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.”

  • Union Minister’s convoy attacked with stones in West Bengal

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Union Minister of State for House Nisith Pramanik on Saturday alleged that supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress attacked his automotive at Dinhata in West Bengal’s Coochbehar district.

    The TMC supporters allegedly pelted stones on the automotive sporting the minister.

    The entrance windshield of the automobile additionally cracked.

    Black flags had been additionally proven to the minister.

    Pramanik stated, “the police are performing as mere spectators and shielding the perpetrators of violence.

    Other people of the state are witnessing what’s being accomplished via TMC supporters within the state”.

    Pramanik alleged that TMC used to be sheltering miscreants.

    BJP West Bengal spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya stated “if a central minister’s automotive is attacked on this approach, then take into consideration the safety of the average other folks within the state”.

    Bhattacharya stated the Governor must start up steps for the imposition of Article 355 within the state.

    Trinamool Congress chief Jaiprakash Majumdar, whilst reacting to this, stated BJP leaders like Dilip Ghosh and Suvendu Adhikari are instigating the saffron birthday party employees to disrupt peace in West Bengal.

    “Those leaders must be dropped at activity first”, he mentioned.

    KOLKATA: Union Minister of State for House Nisith Pramanik on Saturday alleged that supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress attacked his automotive at Dinhata in West Bengal’s Coochbehar district.

    The TMC supporters allegedly pelted stones on the automotive sporting the minister.

    The entrance windshield of the automobile additionally cracked.

    Black flags had been additionally proven to the minister.

    Pramanik stated, “the police are performing as mere spectators and shielding the perpetrators of violence.

    Other people of the state are witnessing what’s being accomplished via TMC supporters within the state”.

    Pramanik alleged that TMC used to be sheltering miscreants.

    BJP West Bengal spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya stated “if a central minister’s automotive is attacked on this approach, then take into consideration the safety of the average other folks within the state”.

    Bhattacharya stated the Governor must start up steps for the imposition of Article 355 within the state.

    Trinamool Congress chief Jaiprakash Majumdar, whilst reacting to this, stated BJP leaders like Dilip Ghosh and Suvendu Adhikari are instigating the saffron birthday party employees to disrupt peace in West Bengal.

    “Those leaders must be dropped at activity first”, he mentioned.

  • West Bengal Meeting passes movement towards separate statehood

    Through Categorical Information Carrier

    KOLKATA: Amid the call for for a separate statehood via a piece of BJP MPs elected from the northern a part of West Bengal, the Bengal Meeting Monday handed a movement tabled via the Trinamool Congress within the Meeting towards the break up.

    The movement was once tabled via TMC MLA Satyajit Barman mentioning that positive forces are looking to create a department within the state’s provide standing and hurt the tradition of Bengal.

    The BJP made deep inroads within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections via bagging seven seats out of 8 in north Bengal comprising 8 districts. Banking on allegations of a step-motherly perspective in opposition to north Bengal raised via a piece of the folk from the area, a piece of BJP MPs elected from the northern a part of the state raised a requirement for separate statehood to woo the sentiment a part of the populace.

    The BJP’s top command, on a number of events, made it transparent that they don’t wish to break up the state and toughen the call for for separate statehood.

    The Chief of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari termed the transfer a political stunt. “The folk of north Bengal are disadvantaged of fundamental rights. The state executive must deal with it with precedence,” he stated, with out clearing his stance at the movement towards or in toughen.      

    KOLKATA: Amid the call for for a separate statehood via a piece of BJP MPs elected from the northern a part of West Bengal, the Bengal Meeting Monday handed a movement tabled via the Trinamool Congress within the Meeting towards the break up.

    The movement was once tabled via TMC MLA Satyajit Barman mentioning that positive forces are looking to create a department within the state’s provide standing and hurt the tradition of Bengal.

    The BJP made deep inroads within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections via bagging seven seats out of 8 in north Bengal comprising 8 districts. Banking on allegations of a step-motherly perspective in opposition to north Bengal raised via a piece of the folk from the area, a piece of BJP MPs elected from the northern a part of the state raised a requirement for separate statehood to woo the sentiment a part of the populace.

    The BJP’s top command, on a number of events, made it transparent that they don’t wish to break up the state and toughen the call for for separate statehood.

    The Chief of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari termed the transfer a political stunt. “The folk of north Bengal are disadvantaged of fundamental rights. The state executive must deal with it with precedence,” he stated, with out clearing his stance at the movement towards or in toughen.      

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

    Categorical Information Provider

    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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • BJP’s North Bengal MLA Suman Kanjilal joins TMC

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    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.

  • ‘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.

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

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    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.