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Every new government gets a small honeymoon with history. Franklin Roosevelt used his to tell a broken America that the first task of power was not perfection, but motion: “Above all, try something.” Suvendu Adhikari, a month after taking oath as CM of West Bengal on Rabindranath Tagore’s birth anniversary on May 9, seems to…
NEW DELHI: In another sign of the growing divide within the Trinamool Congress, several party MLAs attended Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s administrative review meeting on Wednesday, even as the opposition party grappled with its biggest internal crisis since losing power in West Bengal.Among those present at the Nabanna meeting were rebel leaders Ritabrata Banerjee, Javed…
NEW DELHI: TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday led a sit-in protest in Kolkata over alleged attacks on party leaders, including nephew Abhishek Banerjee. This comes a day after police denied permission to the West Bengal opposition party to hold any protest.Addressing the people, Mamata accused the BJP of “rigging counting in 177 of 294…
KALYANI/KOLKATA: Six Trinamool Congress MLAs and four-time MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar attended Tuesday an administrative meeting of Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari in an apparent act of defiance as the party’s post-poll haemorrhage showed no signs of stopping. The development coincided with TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy striking a discordant note on the May…
KOLKATA: Opening its purse strings for Bengal following chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s maiden visit to New Delhi after assuming office on May 9, the Centre on Friday agreed to release Rs 39,000 crore for schemes under the Union water resources ministry. PM Narendra Modi, during his meeting with Adhikari, also assured of support in implementing…
Suvendu Adhikari; Jahangir Khan NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jahangir Khan on Monday moved the Calcutta high court seeking protection from any coercive action by the West Bengal Police, alleging that criminal cases were being repeatedly filed against him.Khan’s plea came two days after chief minister Suvendu Adhikari warned that he would personally handle…
Siliguri police detained a vehicle owner after his car’s registration number was linked to the murder of Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant (The vehicle used in the crime) SILIGURI/BARASAT: Siliguri police on Wednesday night detained a vehicle owner in north Bengal for questioning in connection with the murder of Chandranath Rath, the personal assistant of Suvendu…
Chandranath Rath, a close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and a former Indian Air Force officer, was shot dead in a targeted attack in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district KOLKATA: Chandranath Rath, the close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari who was shot dead in a brazen attack in West Bengal’s North 24…
As Rath’s car came to a halt, four assailants on two bikes pulled up next to the vehicle and started firing indiscriminately. KOLKATA: More chilling details have emerged in the killing of Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, who was chased, trapped and shot dead by bike-borne assailants near Kolkata airport late…
NANDIGRAM: The leader of the opposition in the Bengal assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, has warned Muslim migrant workers in Nandigram that “they would have to return to BJP-governed states” for work after the assembly polls. Saying over 30,000 people from Nandigram were employed in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Odisha, Adhikari singled out Muslims and said they “could…
