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  • SSC rip-off: BJP takes out rally in Kolkata to protest towards college jobs irregularities

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: The BJP’s West Bengal unit on Thursday took out a rally right here to protest towards alleged irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers and non-teaching body of workers in government-sponsored and-aided faculties.

    Led through BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar and different senior celebration leaders, the protest march – Kolkata Chalo – started at School Side road and culminated at Rani Rashmoni street in central Kolkata.

    “The corruption in College Provider Fee is solely the top of the iceberg. All the TMC and its authorities are knee-deep in corruption. Partha Chatterjee and different corrupt leaders will have to be put in the back of bars,” Majumdar stated.

    The state authorities on Thursday got rid of Chatterjee, who used to be on July 23 arrested through the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the alleged college jobs rip-off, from the ministry with instant impact.

    Sporting posters and placards, the BJP activists shouted slogans towards the Mamata Banerjee authorities and its schooling division.

    They demanded that the culprits in the back of the alleged rip-off will have to be put in the back of bars.

    Chatterjee held the portfolios of trade and trade, parliamentary affairs, knowledge era and electronics, public enterprises and business reconstruction within the state cupboard.

    He used to be the state schooling minister when the alleged rip-off came about.

    The Enforcement Directorate is probing into the cash path concerned within the irregularities in recruitment at faculties.

    Crores of rupees in money together with different pieces have been allegedly recovered from the place of dwelling of a lady, who is thought of as to be an in depth affiliate of Chatterjee.

    PTI may just now not independently examine the ideas.

    Some other central company CBI, as directed through the Calcutta Prime Court docket, could also be probing the alleged irregularities within the recruitment of Team-C and D body of workers in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and-aided faculties on suggestions of the West Bengal College Provider Fee.

    KOLKATA: The BJP’s West Bengal unit on Thursday took out a rally right here to protest towards alleged irregularities within the recruitment of lecturers and non-teaching body of workers in government-sponsored and-aided faculties.

    Led through BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar and different senior celebration leaders, the protest march – Kolkata Chalo – started at School Side road and culminated at Rani Rashmoni street in central Kolkata.

    “The corruption in College Provider Fee is solely the top of the iceberg. All the TMC and its authorities are knee-deep in corruption. Partha Chatterjee and different corrupt leaders will have to be put in the back of bars,” Majumdar stated.

    The state authorities on Thursday got rid of Chatterjee, who used to be on July 23 arrested through the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the alleged college jobs rip-off, from the ministry with instant impact.

    Sporting posters and placards, the BJP activists shouted slogans towards the Mamata Banerjee authorities and its schooling division.

    They demanded that the culprits in the back of the alleged rip-off will have to be put in the back of bars.

    Chatterjee held the portfolios of trade and trade, parliamentary affairs, knowledge era and electronics, public enterprises and business reconstruction within the state cupboard.

    He used to be the state schooling minister when the alleged rip-off came about.

    The Enforcement Directorate is probing into the cash path concerned within the irregularities in recruitment at faculties.

    Crores of rupees in money together with different pieces have been allegedly recovered from the place of dwelling of a lady, who is thought of as to be an in depth affiliate of Chatterjee.

    PTI may just now not independently examine the ideas.

    Some other central company CBI, as directed through the Calcutta Prime Court docket, could also be probing the alleged irregularities within the recruitment of Team-C and D body of workers in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and-aided faculties on suggestions of the West Bengal College Provider Fee.

  • SSC rip-off: Money round Rs 28 crore, jewelry discovered at rental related to arrested Bengal minister

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    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered Rs 27.9 crore in money, but even so an enormous quantity of gold jewelry from an rental related to Arpita Mukherjee, thought to be an in depth affiliate of arrested West Bengal Trade Minister Partha Chatterjee, officers mentioned on Thursday morning.

    The stacks of money have been recovered from the rental in Belgharia on Wednesday, and after in a single day counting, it amounted to Rs 27.90 crore, they mentioned.

    The investigators are nonetheless ascertaining the worth of the gold jewelry, believed to be in kgs, they added.

    The cash and gold have been discovered 5 days after the company seized greater than Rs 21 crore in money, but even so jewelry and foreign currencies from any other flat of Mukherjee in south Kolkata’s Tollygunge space, following which she was once arrested.

    In all, just about Rs 50 crore in money has been seized thus far, officers mentioned.

    ED officers on Wednesday carried out coordinated raids at more than a few houses at Rajdanga in south Kolkata and Belgharia within the northern fringes of the town.

    Right through wondering, Mukherjee knowledgeable the ED about the ones houses, officers mentioned.

    ED sleuths needed to damage open a door to get into the 2 apartments in Belgharia’s Rathtala locality because the keys to open them may now not be noticed, they mentioned.

    A number of “essential” paperwork have been additionally discovered within the apartments all through a seek, the reputable mentioned.

    Chatterjee, a formidable minister in Mamata Banerjee authorities and the secretary-general of Trinamool Congress, was once arrested on Saturday after the money was once discovered at Mukherjee’s Tollygunge flat.

    The CBI, as directed by way of the Calcutta Top Court docket, is probing the alleged irregularities dedicated within the recruitment of Crew-C and D body of workers in addition to academics in government-sponsored and aided colleges on suggestions of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee (SSC).

    The ED is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

    Chatterjee was once the training minister when the alleged irregularities happened.

    (With PTI Inputs)

    KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has recovered Rs 27.9 crore in money, but even so an enormous quantity of gold jewelry from an rental related to Arpita Mukherjee, thought to be an in depth affiliate of arrested West Bengal Trade Minister Partha Chatterjee, officers mentioned on Thursday morning.

    The stacks of money have been recovered from the rental in Belgharia on Wednesday, and after in a single day counting, it amounted to Rs 27.90 crore, they mentioned.

    The investigators are nonetheless ascertaining the worth of the gold jewelry, believed to be in kgs, they added.

    The cash and gold have been discovered 5 days after the company seized greater than Rs 21 crore in money, but even so jewelry and foreign currencies from any other flat of Mukherjee in south Kolkata’s Tollygunge space, following which she was once arrested.

    In all, just about Rs 50 crore in money has been seized thus far, officers mentioned.

    ED officers on Wednesday carried out coordinated raids at more than a few houses at Rajdanga in south Kolkata and Belgharia within the northern fringes of the town.

    Right through wondering, Mukherjee knowledgeable the ED about the ones houses, officers mentioned.

    ED sleuths needed to damage open a door to get into the 2 apartments in Belgharia’s Rathtala locality because the keys to open them may now not be noticed, they mentioned.

    A number of “essential” paperwork have been additionally discovered within the apartments all through a seek, the reputable mentioned.

    Chatterjee, a formidable minister in Mamata Banerjee authorities and the secretary-general of Trinamool Congress, was once arrested on Saturday after the money was once discovered at Mukherjee’s Tollygunge flat.

    The CBI, as directed by way of the Calcutta Top Court docket, is probing the alleged irregularities dedicated within the recruitment of Crew-C and D body of workers in addition to academics in government-sponsored and aided colleges on suggestions of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee (SSC).

    The ED is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

    Chatterjee was once the training minister when the alleged irregularities happened.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • ‘Any individual confirmed in charge will have to be punished, however media trials unacceptable’: Mamata on SSC rip-off

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Days after senior West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee used to be arrested by means of the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the college recruitment rip-off, Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the media for allegedly launching a “malicious marketing campaign” in opposition to her birthday party.

    Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, stated that anybody confirmed in charge by means of the courtroom will have to be punished, however probe “businesses will have to no longer be used to malign political events”.

    “”While you run a large establishment, there can also be errors. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as soon as stated that folks have the correct to make blunders. If any individual has dedicated any mistake, and it’s confirmed legally, she or he will have to be punished. “However I’m in opposition to any malicious media marketing campaign. The media is taking part in the position of kangaroo (courtroom). A senior pass judgement on additionally stated that lately,” she stated.

    Addressing a programme of personal company Titagarh Wagons at Uttarpara in Hooghly district, Banerjee lashed out at a piece of the media for allegedly seeking to act like courts and pronounce judgments even ahead of an individual is legally confirmed in charge.

    “The Leader Justice of India lately identified that the media is taking part in the position of kangaroo courts.

    They don’t need any construction to occur in Bengal and handiest need to defame our state,” she stated.

    Banerjee used to be relating to contemporary feedback by means of Leader Justice of India NV Ramana that agenda-driven debates and kangaroo courts being run by means of the media are negative to the well being of democracy.

    With out elaborating, the TMC supremo claimed that she is aware of the ones reporters who’ve taken “undue advantages”.

    About ED raids performed on July 22 on the homes of round a dozen other folks, together with Chatterjee and every other minister, in reference to its investigation into the college jobs rip-off, Banerjee puzzled what induced the central company to do it only a day after the TMC’s mega rally in Kolkata.

    She stated, “”They (BJP) have been afraid after seeing the turnout (within the rally). They (ED) got here at the hours of darkness and the wee hours. Did they to find the whole thing in at some point?” Banerjee stated she does no longer have any drawback with investigative businesses doing their process. However I can no longer tolerate ruining the belief of any political birthday party within the identify of an investigation, particularly by means of those that have looted the rustic. This isn’t a just right signal for our nation,” she stated.

    The TMC chief stated she is in opposition to central businesses being utilized by the BJP to malign opposition events.

    Banerjee claimed that the BJP won’t go back to energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

    “If I weren’t assured, I don’t have stated this. However what’s the calculation, the place will the seats come from, and the way will they arrive? I have no idea. (Then again), even astrologers are predicting the BJP’s downfall,” she stated.

    Banerjee stated the extent of “intolerance and cruelty” in opposition to the opposition has surpassed that of the British technology.

    In an obvious connection with the suspension of nineteen opposition participants from Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, she stated, “Nowadays, in case you protest in opposition to one thing, you get suspended. If other folks carry their voices, they’re both suspended or slapped with courtroom circumstances.”

    She additionally claimed that businessmen and opposition leaders have been additionally being “threatened by means of businesses on the behest of the ruling BJP” on the Centre.

    The executive minister additionally cautioned the saffron camp that if it tries to dislodge the West Bengal executive “because it did in Maharashtra”, the birthday party would get a befitting answer.

    After dislodging the federal government in Maharashtra, the BJP has been seeking to perform identical operations in Jharkhand and different states, together with West Bengal.

    “Let me remind them that that is the land of the Royal Bengal Tiger; if they are attempting to intervene, a befitting answer will apply. I warn them to not consider Bengal,” the TMC boss added.

    KOLKATA: Days after senior West Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee used to be arrested by means of the Enforcement Directorate in reference to the college recruitment rip-off, Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday slammed the media for allegedly launching a “malicious marketing campaign” in opposition to her birthday party.

    Banerjee, additionally the Trinamool Congress supremo, stated that anybody confirmed in charge by means of the courtroom will have to be punished, however probe “businesses will have to no longer be used to malign political events”.

    “”While you run a large establishment, there can also be errors. Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose as soon as stated that folks have the correct to make blunders. If any individual has dedicated any mistake, and it’s confirmed legally, she or he will have to be punished. “However I’m in opposition to any malicious media marketing campaign. The media is taking part in the position of kangaroo (courtroom). A senior pass judgement on additionally stated that lately,” she stated.

    Addressing a programme of personal company Titagarh Wagons at Uttarpara in Hooghly district, Banerjee lashed out at a piece of the media for allegedly seeking to act like courts and pronounce judgments even ahead of an individual is legally confirmed in charge.

    “The Leader Justice of India lately identified that the media is taking part in the position of kangaroo courts.

    They don’t need any construction to occur in Bengal and handiest need to defame our state,” she stated.

    Banerjee used to be relating to contemporary feedback by means of Leader Justice of India NV Ramana that agenda-driven debates and kangaroo courts being run by means of the media are negative to the well being of democracy.

    With out elaborating, the TMC supremo claimed that she is aware of the ones reporters who’ve taken “undue advantages”.

    About ED raids performed on July 22 on the homes of round a dozen other folks, together with Chatterjee and every other minister, in reference to its investigation into the college jobs rip-off, Banerjee puzzled what induced the central company to do it only a day after the TMC’s mega rally in Kolkata.

    She stated, “”They (BJP) have been afraid after seeing the turnout (within the rally). They (ED) got here at the hours of darkness and the wee hours. Did they to find the whole thing in at some point?” Banerjee stated she does no longer have any drawback with investigative businesses doing their process. However I can no longer tolerate ruining the belief of any political birthday party within the identify of an investigation, particularly by means of those that have looted the rustic. This isn’t a just right signal for our nation,” she stated.

    The TMC chief stated she is in opposition to central businesses being utilized by the BJP to malign opposition events.

    Banerjee claimed that the BJP won’t go back to energy within the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

    “If I weren’t assured, I don’t have stated this. However what’s the calculation, the place will the seats come from, and the way will they arrive? I have no idea. (Then again), even astrologers are predicting the BJP’s downfall,” she stated.

    Banerjee stated the extent of “intolerance and cruelty” in opposition to the opposition has surpassed that of the British technology.

    In an obvious connection with the suspension of nineteen opposition participants from Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, she stated, “Nowadays, in case you protest in opposition to one thing, you get suspended. If other folks carry their voices, they’re both suspended or slapped with courtroom circumstances.”

    She additionally claimed that businessmen and opposition leaders have been additionally being “threatened by means of businesses on the behest of the ruling BJP” on the Centre.

    The executive minister additionally cautioned the saffron camp that if it tries to dislodge the West Bengal executive “because it did in Maharashtra”, the birthday party would get a befitting answer.

    After dislodging the federal government in Maharashtra, the BJP has been seeking to perform identical operations in Jharkhand and different states, together with West Bengal.

    “Let me remind them that that is the land of the Royal Bengal Tiger; if they are attempting to intervene, a befitting answer will apply. I warn them to not consider Bengal,” the TMC boss added.

  • ED questions former Bengal Schooling Minister in SSC rip-off, seizes Rs 20 crore from aide

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    KOLKATA:  An afternoon after Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of misusing central businesses in opposition to her celebration leaders, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths arrived at former schooling minister and celebration secretary normal Partha Chatterjee’s area in Kolkata on Friday and interrogated him for just about 10 hours over alleged irregularities in recruitment of lecturers in colleges in the course of the Faculty Provider Fee. 

    The ED recovered Rs 20 crore from one of the crucial places, owned by means of a girl recognized to Chatterjee. “Throughout the process searches, the ED recovered Rs 20 crore money from the residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee. The sum is suspected to be proceeds of SSC rip-off,” ED said.

    ED groups, comprising 80 body of workers, performed simultaneous raids at 13 places, together with homes of state minister Paresh Adhikari in Cooch Behar and previous consultant of SSC’s screening committee Santi Prasad Sinha.

    Chatterjee, who’s now the trade and industries minister, has been interrogated by means of the CBI two times on this case.

    Whilst he may just no longer be contacted, Adhikari stated, “I’m in Kolkata. I heard that ED officers reached my area however I don’t know the main points.’’

    But even so, they performed simultaneous raids within the homes of former consultant of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee (SSC) Shanti Prasad Sinha, ex-president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling Kalyanmoy Ganguly and 9 others, the respectable stated.

    The CBI, as directed by means of the Calcutta Top Courtroom, is having a look into the alleged irregularities dedicated within the recruitment of Workforce-C and D group of workers in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and –aided colleges on suggestions of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee.

    The ED is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

    “ED is wearing out seek operations at more than a few premises connected to recruitment rip-off within the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee and West Bengal Number one Schooling Board,” the company stated on its respectable Twitter care for.

    The company shared 4 pictures of piles of money within the denomination of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 but even so various sealed packets within a room, with out disclosing the volume or the landlord of where.

    ED resources, then again, stated that round Rs 20 crore in money and greater than 15 cell phones have been seized from the place of dwelling of a girl, a detailed affiliate of Chatterjee, within the town’s Tollygunge space following a raid there within the night, an respectable stated.

    It’s learnt that she has acted in different Bengali, Odia and Tamil movies in recent times.

    No less than 7-8 ED officers reached the Naktala place of dwelling of Chatterjee, the previous schooling minister, at round 8:30 am with a couple of CRPF body of workers maintaining guard outdoor.

    They puzzled him for greater than 11 hours in regards to the alleged rip-off.

    At one level of time, the senior Trinamool Congress chief complained of uneasiness following which a group of docs from the state-run SSKM Health center have been known as by means of the ED sleuths, a supply stated.

    “An ECG used to be performed at the minister and his situation used to be strong,” stated the supply, who’s with reference to the minister.

    Throughout the interrogation, ED officers took away cell phones of the minister’s non-public assistant in addition to the safety guards.

    Chatterjee, lately industries and trade minister, held the schooling portfolio when the rip-off used to be allegedly pulled off.

    He used to be interrogated by means of the CBI two times previous, as soon as on April 26 after which on Might 18.

    Raids have been additionally performed on the place of dwelling of one in every of Chatterjee’s shut mates at Pingla in Paschim Medinipur district, an respectable of the ED stated, although he declined to remark whether or not the raid used to be in reference to the probe into the similar rip-off or no longer.

    The company sleuths, who raided Adhikari’s place of dwelling at Mekhliganj in Cooch Behar district puzzled his members of the family together with his daughter Ankita Adhikari in his absence, he said.

    Ankita lately misplaced her activity as an assistant trainer at a central authority faculty the place she used to be appointed in the course of the SSC two years in the past after it used to be discovered “unlawful” by means of the prime court docket.

    Adhikari who had additionally been grilled by means of the CBI previous instructed newshounds in Kolkata he may just no longer get involved along with his circle of relatives over the telephone.

    “They didn’t intimate us in regards to the discuss with to our area these days. I’m in Kolkata in reference to the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally of the TMC. Had I been round, I’d have handled them to muri (puffed rice),” he stated.

    ED sleuths additionally performed simultaneous raids on the flats of former chairman of the West Bengal Board of Number one Schooling, Manik Bhattacharya, in addition to the board’s interim-president Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi, who may be its secretary.

    The TMC described the concerted raids as a “ploy” by means of the BJP authorities on the Centre to bother political warring parties.

    “This raid by means of ED, an afternoon after the impressive Martyrs’ Day rally that created ripples all over the place the rustic, is not anything however an try to harass and intimidate leaders of the TMC. “The CBI has already interrogated them (ministers) as a part of a court docket directive and they’re cooperating. Now, the ED is being invoked handiest to discredit them. The cash laundering factor is being invented by means of the BJP,” senior TMC chief and minister Firhad Hakim stated.

    The BJP, then again, alleged that the TMC aided large-scale anomalies within the recruitment strategy of lecturers on the number one, higher number one and secondary ranges since coming to energy within the state.

    “TMC leaders and folks with reference to them duped lakhs of certified youths and passed over their jobs to ineligible ones. The CBI and ED are progressing at the proper trail. Extra skeletons will tumble out of the cabinet. The BJP has no function to play in the problem,” the saffron celebration’s nationwide vice-president, Dilip Ghosh, added.

    (With PTI Inputs)

    KOLKATA:  An afternoon after Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of misusing central businesses in opposition to her celebration leaders, Enforcement Directorate (ED) sleuths arrived at former schooling minister and celebration secretary normal Partha Chatterjee’s area in Kolkata on Friday and interrogated him for just about 10 hours over alleged irregularities in recruitment of lecturers in colleges in the course of the Faculty Provider Fee. 

    The ED recovered Rs 20 crore from one of the crucial places, owned by means of a girl recognized to Chatterjee. “Throughout the process searches, the ED recovered Rs 20 crore money from the residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee. The sum is suspected to be proceeds of SSC rip-off,” ED said.

    ED groups, comprising 80 body of workers, performed simultaneous raids at 13 places, together with homes of state minister Paresh Adhikari in Cooch Behar and previous consultant of SSC’s screening committee Santi Prasad Sinha.

    Chatterjee, who’s now the trade and industries minister, has been interrogated by means of the CBI two times on this case.

    Whilst he may just no longer be contacted, Adhikari stated, “I’m in Kolkata. I heard that ED officers reached my area however I don’t know the main points.’’

    But even so, they performed simultaneous raids within the homes of former consultant of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee (SSC) Shanti Prasad Sinha, ex-president of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Schooling Kalyanmoy Ganguly and 9 others, the respectable stated.

    The CBI, as directed by means of the Calcutta Top Courtroom, is having a look into the alleged irregularities dedicated within the recruitment of Workforce-C and D group of workers in addition to lecturers in government-sponsored and –aided colleges on suggestions of the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee.

    The ED is monitoring the cash path within the rip-off.

    “ED is wearing out seek operations at more than a few premises connected to recruitment rip-off within the West Bengal Faculty Provider Fee and West Bengal Number one Schooling Board,” the company stated on its respectable Twitter care for.

    The company shared 4 pictures of piles of money within the denomination of Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 but even so various sealed packets within a room, with out disclosing the volume or the landlord of where.

    ED resources, then again, stated that round Rs 20 crore in money and greater than 15 cell phones have been seized from the place of dwelling of a girl, a detailed affiliate of Chatterjee, within the town’s Tollygunge space following a raid there within the night, an respectable stated.

    It’s learnt that she has acted in different Bengali, Odia and Tamil movies in recent times.

    No less than 7-8 ED officers reached the Naktala place of dwelling of Chatterjee, the previous schooling minister, at round 8:30 am with a couple of CRPF body of workers maintaining guard outdoor.

    They puzzled him for greater than 11 hours in regards to the alleged rip-off.

    At one level of time, the senior Trinamool Congress chief complained of uneasiness following which a group of docs from the state-run SSKM Health center have been known as by means of the ED sleuths, a supply stated.

    “An ECG used to be performed at the minister and his situation used to be strong,” stated the supply, who’s with reference to the minister.

    Throughout the interrogation, ED officers took away cell phones of the minister’s non-public assistant in addition to the safety guards.

    Chatterjee, lately industries and trade minister, held the schooling portfolio when the rip-off used to be allegedly pulled off.

    He used to be interrogated by means of the CBI two times previous, as soon as on April 26 after which on Might 18.

    Raids have been additionally performed on the place of dwelling of one in every of Chatterjee’s shut mates at Pingla in Paschim Medinipur district, an respectable of the ED stated, although he declined to remark whether or not the raid used to be in reference to the probe into the similar rip-off or no longer.

    The company sleuths, who raided Adhikari’s place of dwelling at Mekhliganj in Cooch Behar district puzzled his members of the family together with his daughter Ankita Adhikari in his absence, he said.

    Ankita lately misplaced her activity as an assistant trainer at a central authority faculty the place she used to be appointed in the course of the SSC two years in the past after it used to be discovered “unlawful” by means of the prime court docket.

    Adhikari who had additionally been grilled by means of the CBI previous instructed newshounds in Kolkata he may just no longer get involved along with his circle of relatives over the telephone.

    “They didn’t intimate us in regards to the discuss with to our area these days. I’m in Kolkata in reference to the July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally of the TMC. Had I been round, I’d have handled them to muri (puffed rice),” he stated.

    ED sleuths additionally performed simultaneous raids on the flats of former chairman of the West Bengal Board of Number one Schooling, Manik Bhattacharya, in addition to the board’s interim-president Ratna Chakraborty Bagchi, who may be its secretary.

    The TMC described the concerted raids as a “ploy” by means of the BJP authorities on the Centre to bother political warring parties.

    “This raid by means of ED, an afternoon after the impressive Martyrs’ Day rally that created ripples all over the place the rustic, is not anything however an try to harass and intimidate leaders of the TMC. “The CBI has already interrogated them (ministers) as a part of a court docket directive and they’re cooperating. Now, the ED is being invoked handiest to discredit them. The cash laundering factor is being invented by means of the BJP,” senior TMC chief and minister Firhad Hakim stated.

    The BJP, then again, alleged that the TMC aided large-scale anomalies within the recruitment strategy of lecturers on the number one, higher number one and secondary ranges since coming to energy within the state.

    “TMC leaders and folks with reference to them duped lakhs of certified youths and passed over their jobs to ineligible ones. The CBI and ED are progressing at the proper trail. Extra skeletons will tumble out of the cabinet. The BJP has no function to play in the problem,” the saffron celebration’s nationwide vice-president, Dilip Ghosh, added.

    (With PTI Inputs)

  • ‘BJP to stand Sri Lanka, Afghanistan-like protest by means of other people’: Abhishek Banerjee

    By way of PTI

    DHUPGURI: Trinamool Congress nationwide normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee attacked the BJP on Tuesday, claiming that it’s going to face Sri Lanka and Afghanistan-like protests by means of other people as a result of the stable hike in gasoline costs within the nation.

    Whilst the Mamata Banerjee govt in West Bengal is giving cash within the fingers of girls via a scheme, High Minister Narendra Modi is taking it clear of them by means of elevating cooking gasoline costs to almost Rs 1,100 consistent with cylinder, he claimed.

    Petrol and diesel costs also are emerging continuously, he stated.

    “What took place in Sri Lanka and Afghanisthan, I consider the folk of India will create a identical scenario towards the BJP,” Banerjee stated whilst addressing a public assembly right here.

    Protestors in crisis-hit Sri Lanka lately stormed into the legit flats of the President and High Minister despite the fact that they’d left the homes ahead of that.

    On the other hand, why Banerjee discussed Afghanistan isn’t transparent.

    Banerjee additionally stated that the ones north Bengal leaders of the TMC as a result of whom electorate became clear of the celebration within the ultimate Lok Sabha and meeting elections won’t get tickets within the subsequent panchayat polls.

    Regarding the call for for a separate state comprising the northern districts of West Bengal by means of a bit of BJP leaders, Banerjee who is thought of as no.2 within the Trinamool Congress asserted that no one will dare to divide the state until Mamata Banerjee is the manager minister.

    “On account of a couple of leaders, electorate of north Bengal had became clear of the TMC within the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2021 meeting elections. The celebration has known them and none of such other people can be given tickets within the panchayat polls (due subsequent yr),” Abhishek Banerjee stated.

    The saffron celebration has fared smartly in the ones two elections within the northern districts corresponding to Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri and Alipurduar.

    In quest of to venture a blank symbol of the ruling celebration within the state, he stated that one has to make a decision whether or not he’s going to paintings for the Trinamool Congress or for his trade as a contractor.

    Allegations have arise in some spaces about some TMC panchayat leaders making belongings price past their identified resources of source of revenue.

    “No person gets (TMC) price ticket for the panchayat elections at the foundation of financial institution stability. It is going to be in line with the certificates by means of other people,” Banerjee stated, addressing a public assembly at Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri district within the northern a part of the state.

    He stated he does no longer just like the time period ‘north Bengal’ as apparently that the area isn’t the same as the remainder of the state.

    “There may be simplest West Bengal and no south or north. If somebody thinks of dividing Bengal, we can save you it with the ultimate drop of our blood,” he stated.

    Calls for for a separate state or Union territory for the northern a part of the state had been raised by means of the BJP within the ultimate a number of years alleging that the area didn’t have any construction.

    He claimed that the Left Entrance right through its 34-year-long rule had accomplished not anything for the improvement of north Bengal whilst the TMC, after coming to energy in 2011, has bridged the distance to a big extent.

    Admitting that the TMC’s management within the north Bengal districts has dedicated some mistakes, Banerjee stated, “I’ve come to hunt your pardon and to provide you with my phrase that I will be able to seek advice from those puts steadily.”

    Banerjee requested the TMC native leaders to stroll the additional mile ahead of the panchayat polls in all sales space spaces the place the celebration fared poorly within the ultimate meeting and Lok Sabha elections.

    He requested them to carry file playing cards on their actions within the ultimate 365 days following the meeting elections after they cross to Kolkata for the July 21 martyrs’ day rally of the TMC.

    On BJP leaders’ statement that central finances must be stopped if the central scheme just like the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna is renamed as Bangla Awas Yojana, he stated that if a programme is being taken up in a state, its title must be there.

  • BJP takes out rally in Mahua Moitra’s constituency, seeks her arrest for remarks on Goddess Kali

    By way of PTI

    KRISHNA NAGAR: Chief of Opposition in Bengal and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari on Monday took out a rally in TMC MP Mahua Moitra’s Krishnanagar constituency to protest in opposition to her fresh remarks on Goddess Kali.

    Adhikari and several other BJP leaders, throughout the rally, raised slogans in opposition to Moitra and sought her arrest for “hurting sentiments” of Hindu devotees.

    Addressing the rally, he stated, “Regardless of a number of court cases, the police and the state management were mute spectators. The folk of this nation and the Hindu devotees would possibly not tolerate the insult of Goddess Kali.”

    “The TMC govt and the state police were very energetic in in quest of motion in opposition to Nupur Sharma. However they have got no longer taken any step in opposition to Moitra. There cannot be a unique algorithm for BJP and TMC leaders. We can stay up for a couple of days after which transfer the courtroom,” the saffron camp MLA stated.

    The parliamentarian brought about an argument remaining week as she stated that she had each proper as a person to consider Goddess Kali as a meat-eating and alcohol-accepting goddess, and that each and every particular person had his or distinctive means of providing prayers.

    The TMC had condemned the statement and stated that it didn’t endorse the TMC MP’s perspectives in any respect.

    Moitra is a first-time MP from the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat.

    Taking to Twitter later within the day, Adhikari stated, “We reverentially worship Goddess Kaali as Shakti, primordial, nurturing, damaging (in opposition to evil forces) additionally loving & benevolent. @AITCofficial MP Mohua Moitra’s abhorrent feedback & her obnoxious portrayal & characterization of Maa Kaali has angry all Hindus devotees.”

    He claimed that the police inactiveness in opposition to Moitra went on to turn Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee and her birthday celebration’s “put out of your mind for Hindu Bengali sentiments”.

    “@WBPolice’s inactiveness in opposition to her proves @MamataOfficial’s acquiescence & brazen put out of your mind for Hindu Bengali sentiments. To protest in opposition to disrespect to Maa Kaali & shielding Ms Moitra, led a procession & addressed a rally lately at Krishnanagar; Nadia, her Electoral Constituency.” Adhikari wrote.

    Responding to the allegations, senior TMC chief Kunal Ghosh stated the saffron camp was once looking to politicise the problem.

    “The birthday celebration has condemned Moitra’s statement and has mentioned that it does not beef up it. The BJP continues to be looking to politicise the problem by way of blending faith with politics,” he added.

    On Sunday, too, BJP’s IT cellular leader and the birthday celebration’s Bengal unit co-incharge Amit Malviya accused the CM of protecting Moitra’s “obnoxious portrayal” of the deity.

    The Krishnanagar MP, with out taking any title, had hit again announcing that she “would advise BJP Troll-In-Fee for Bengal to inform his masters to forestall commenting on issues they have got no clue about”.

    on Monday advised BJP to forestall politicising the problem and chorus from blending faith with politics.

    The BJP then puzzled why no disciplinary motion was once taken in opposition to Moitra for her remark made on July 5 that that she had each proper as a person to consider Goddess Kali as a meat-eating and alcohol-accepting deity, as each and every particular person had their distinctive means of providing prayers.

    The altercation between the 2 events started afresh after the BJP’s IT leader Amit Malviya on Sunday stated High Minister Narendra Modi speaks reverentially concerning the goddess, whilst “a TMC MP insults her” and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, as an alternative of performing in opposition to her, defends her “obnoxious portrayal” of Maa Kali.

    Whilst just about addressing a programme of Ramakrishna Project on Sunday, Modi stated Goddess Kali’s blessings are at all times with the rustic, which is transferring forward with a non secular power for the welfare of the arena.

    In a while after Malviya posted his commentary on Twitter, Moitra hit again with out naming any individual.

    “Would advise BJP Troll-In-Fee for Bengal to inform his masters to forestall commenting on issues they have got no clue about. Didi O Didi were given them the boot. Now Maa O Maa gets them a foot on their chest,” she tweeted.

    She was once regarding the “Didi o Didi” taunt utilized by BJP leaders to mock West Bengal Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, who’s usually known as Didi (elder sister) by way of her supporters, throughout the campaigning for the 2021 meeting polls.

    In a recent tweet, Malviya who may be West Bengal’s co-in-charge, then claimed that Moitra isn’t obeying the birthday celebration’s diktat at the factor.

    The TMC has previous condemned the MP’s debatable remark.

    “Smarting underneath public rebuke from Mamata Banerjee, TMC MP is the usage of repeat defiance at the factor of Maa Kaali to humiliate her, diminish her stature as a pace-setter, understanding totally neatly that she would not have the ability to act in opposition to her, for worry of angering her Muslim vote financial institution,” he tweeted.

    Senior TMC MP Sougata Roy on Monday requested who’s Malviya to remark in this subject.

    “The birthday celebration has already condemned what Moitra had stated. The birthday celebration does no longer beef up what she stated. However we are not looking for courses from the BJP. They will have to forestall blending faith with politics,” Sougata Roy stated.

    West Bengal BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya puzzled why the TMC is but to take any disciplinary motion in opposition to Moitra.

    “Neither Mahua Moitra has been summoned by way of the police nor any disciplinary motion being taken in opposition to her. It kind of feels the TMC has issued a commentary condemning her remarks is a farce,” he stated.

    Moitra made the debatable remarks at a conclave on July 5.

    She was once responding to a query in reference to the outrage over a movie poster, which presentations a girl dressed because the deity smoking a cigarette and preserving a pleasure flag.

    Police court cases were made in opposition to Moitra for the remarks in more than a few states.

  • ‘Why will have to we again Murmu in presidential ballot?’ Trinamool MP on BJP letter searching for beef up

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Veteran TMC MP Saugata Roy on Friday stated that he and different parliamentarians of his birthday celebration have won a letter from the Bengal BJP management, searching for their beef up for NDA presidential nominee Droupadi Murmu.

    Roy, in the similar breath, additionally stated that lawmakers of his birthday celebration would vote for joint non-BJP candidate Yashwant Sinha.

    Murmu, who were traveling states for electioneering, is scheduled to talk over with Kolkata to fulfill BJP MPs and MLAs from West Bengal.

    “We’ve won a letter signed by means of BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar and Chief of the opposition in West Bengal meeting Suvendu Adhikari, urging us (TMC MPs) to beef up NDA nominee Droupadi Murmu for presidential polls. They’ve claimed that Murmu’s victory is bound, and all of us will have to vote for her to enhance democratic and constitutional norms,” Roy stated.

    The veteran TMC MP, then again, dominated out any chance of backing Murmu.

    “Why will have to we beef up the NDA candidate when the opposition events in combination have fielded Yashwant Sinha? We will be able to vote for Sinha,” he stated.

    Final month, Majumdar and Adhikari had written to Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee, urging her to beef up Murmu within the July 18 presidential ballot.

    The Bengal BJP had in June introduced that it could write to the entire TMC MPs and MLAs, searching for their beef up for the NDA nominee.

    Final week, Banerjee had stated that Murmu, a tribal BJP chief from Odisha, may have been a consensus candidate had the saffron birthday celebration mentioned with the opposition events prior to fielding her.

  • Won’t leisure until pro-Jihadi Mamata executive is ousted, says Suvendu, Trinamool hits again

    By way of PTI

    KOLKATA: Senior BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday termed the TMC executive in West Bengal as “pro-jihadi” and stated he’s going to now not surrender his battle towards it until it’s ousted and a “nationalist executive” involves energy within the state.

    Adhikari and senior BJP leaders took phase in a rally from Golpark to Hazra crossing all through the day to commemorate the delivery anniversary of Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

    His remark drew sharp response from the TMC which stated it smacks of “frustration” of Adhikari and the saffron camp, which didn’t clinch energy in West Bengal regardless of the prime pitch ballot marketing campaign.

    “Everyone knows how Syama Prasad Mookerjee had fought and gave his lifestyles difficult the elimination of particular provisions in Kashmir. Drawing inspiration from his battle, the BJP in Bengal will proceed its battle till the pro-Jihadi TMC executive is ousted from energy,” Adhikari stated addressing the rally.

    “The day isn’t some distance away when we will be able to reach making sure a nationalist executive involves energy in Bengal,” Adhikari stated addressing the rally.

    The BJP chief additionally stated “anti-national parts” are having a “loose run” in West Bengal underneath the TMC regime.

    “The TMC executive to assuage its vote financial institution has became a mute spectator and is permitting those anti-national parts to name the shot. This example has to switch and we (BJP) will exchange it,” he stated.

    Hitting again, TMC state basic secretary Kunal Ghosh stated Adhikari’s feedback replicate his frustration as his desires of turning into leader minister had been “shattered” after the defeat that BJP suffered within the fingers of Mamata Banerjee’s birthday celebration within the state ballot final 12 months.

  • Bengal’s new PAC leader skips assembly; BJP threatens to transport court docket over appointment

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Newly appointed Chairman of Public Accounts Committee of the West Bengal Meeting Krishna Kalyani didn’t attend the scheduled assembly of the frame on Wednesday, whilst the BJP stated that it might do the entirety to prevent him from functioning because the PAC leader claiming he does no longer belong to the opposition.

    Kalyani, like his predecessor Mukul Roy, is a BJP MLA who joined the TMC with out resigning from the Meeting.

    Roy submitted his resignation because the chairman of the committee closing week, mentioning sick well being.

    Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari threatened that the birthday party might transfer court docket to prevent Kalyani from discharging duties because the PAC chairman, contending that he not belonged to the BJP and that submit historically is going to an opposition member.

    In reaction, Speaker Biman Banerjee stated, “As in keeping with to be had report within the Meeting, Krishna Kalyani stays with the BJP. I went by means of the guideline ebook to nominate him. If someone needs to transport court docket at the factor, it’s for the individual to come to a decision. The doorways of the judiciary are open to everybody.”

    Banerjee stated that it’s the Speaker’s prerogative to nominate the PAC chairman.

    TMC chief Krishna Kalyani received the Meeting election from the Raiganj seat on a BJP price tag closing 12 months.

    He returned to the TMC later however didn’t renounce as a legislator.

    He was once just lately appointed because the PAC leader rather than Mukul Roy.

    The Speaker, in June, rejected Adhikari’s plea for disqualifying Roy as an MLA, pronouncing he didn’t in finding advantage within the argument.

    The Calcutta Prime Courtroom on April 11 put aside the Speaker’s previous order pushing aside a petition by means of Adhikari which sought disqualification of Roy as a member of the Area at the floor of defection and restored the topic for recent attention.

    Any other BJP legislator had moved the top court docket in July closing 12 months difficult Roy’s election as chairman of the PAC and prayed for the nomination of an opposition member to the submit as in keeping with custom.

  • Trinamool MLA Krishna Kalyani prone to be appointed as Bengal meeting’s PAC chairman

    Via PTI

    KOLKATA: Raiganj’s BJP MLA Krishna Kalyani, who joined the Trinamool Congress ultimate yr, may be appointed because the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the West Bengal meeting, assets stated on Monday.

    The submit fell vacant after senior TMC chief Mukul Roy, who had gained the 2021 meeting polls on a BJP price tag and later joined the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday party, submitted his resignation because the chairman of the committee ultimate week, bringing up in poor health well being.

    “Krishna Kalyani will in all probability be appointed as the following PAC chairman. An order and notification in regards to the similar can be out both the next day or the day after,” a senior meeting respectable stated.

    Kalyani, a TMC chief in Uttar Dinajpur district, had joined the BJP ahead of the meeting elections and was once fielded from the Raiganj seat.

    Alternatively, he surrender the BJP in October ultimate yr to go back to the TMC.

    He didn’t renounce as a legislator regardless of being requested to take action through the saffron birthday party.

    Speaker Biman Banerjee had appointed Roy as PAC chairman in July ultimate yr, whilst the opposition BJP had sought after its MLA Ashok Lahiri to move the committee.

    Banerjee, in Would possibly, rejected Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari’s plea for disqualifying Roy as MLA, pronouncing he didn’t in finding advantage within the argument.

    Roy, who gained the Krishnanagar Uttar constituency in Nadia district on a BJP price tag within the state election ultimate yr, defected to the ruling TMC in June 2021.

    He additionally didn’t renounce as a legislator.

    On earlier events between 2016 and 2021, Congress MLAs Manas Bhunia and Sankar Singh, who, like Roy had joined the TMC with out resigning as legislators, have been appointed because the chairman of PAC.