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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, in her long-struggled resentment and legal battle against Election Commission’s exercise special intensive revision, has now adopted a literary form of protest, going an unusual way, authoring 26 poem on the issue that has been the cause of trouble for her.The poems…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday morning reached the Supreme Court to argue her legal battle against the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, an exercise, being conducted by the Election Commission.A Supreme Court bench comprising CJI Surya Kant, Justices Joymala Bagchi and Vipul Pancholi…
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee (IANS photo) NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in the national capital on Monday amid her ongoing tussle with the Election Commission and found herself in a face-off with Delhi Police outside Banga Bhavan. Voicing her protest, Mamata said, “We came here for justice,” and warned…
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has approached the Supreme Court challenging the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the poll-bound state, PTI reported on Sunday. Banerjee filed the petition on January 28, naming the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the chief electoral officer…
KOLKATA: Two days before her meeting with chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, CM Mamata Banerjee on Saturday shot off another letter to Kumar — her 6th since the Nov 4 SIR rollout — questioning EC’s intent in saddling Bengal with 8,100 “illegally appointed” micro-observers, who she claimed, are manipulating voter data.Bengal is the only state…
File photo: Union home minister Amit Shah (Picture credit: IANS) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday mounted a sharp offensive against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that her government has failed to protect women, people and land in the state, while allowing corruption and infiltration to flourish for electoral gains.Addressing…
Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi should not “hurt” her, saying it would make her “dangerous,” and alleged that Bengali-speaking people were facing harassment in states ruled by the BJP, the governing party at the Centre.“One person came and said the…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee alleged a political conspiracy behind the death of Maharashtra deputy CM Ajit Pawar, who died in a plane crash on Wednesday morning. She demanded a Supreme Court-supervised probe, accusing all “other agencies” of being “compromised”.The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief said that there were reported talks that Pawar…
NEW DELHI: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav met West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday and lauded the Trinamool Congress chief countering the Bharatiya Janata Party’s “onslaught” in the country. He added that he would extend his support to Mamata in her “fight to save democracy”. Speaking on the Enforcement Directorate raids on…
Nadia: TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee during a road show ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, in Nadia district, West Bengal. (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of blocking central funds meant for West Bengal. His remarks came on a…
