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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…
CM Mamata Banerjee urges CJI to save democracy, stop agencies from defaming citizens JALPAIGURI/KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday made a fervent appeal to Chief Justice of India Surya Kant to safeguard democracy and ensure that agencies do not defame citizens. “Nobody is above you,” Banerjee told the CJI during the inauguration of the…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday wrote a fresh letter to chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, accusing the Election Commission of ignoring two decades of statutory electoral corrections and forcing voters to re-establish their identity during the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls.In the letter, Banerjee alleged that the EC…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Friday sent a legal notice to chief minister Mamata Banerjee after she made allegation against him and Union home minister Amit Shah over coal smuggling case.Adhikari demanded Mamata to prove the allegations made by her within 72 hours, adding that failure to do so would…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday defended interfering during Enforcement Directorate‘s I-PAC raids, accusing the agency of attempting to “steal” her party’s details. She further levelled serious allegations against “senior BJP leaders in Delhi”, claiming that they received “coal scam proceeds” and she could “furnish proof before public”.“What I did yesterday…
The Calcutta high court on Friday adjourned the hearing on the Enforcement Directorate’s plea seeking registration of an FIR against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: The Calcutta high court on Friday adjourned the hearing on the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) plea seeking registration of an FIR against West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, citing…
Mamata Banerjee hits the streets KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee led a protest rally in Kolkata on Friday against the Enforcement Directorate (ED), a day after the central agency conducted raids at the office of political consultancy I-PAC and the residence of its chief, Partik Jain.The rally was…
‘Amit Shah is nasty, naughty’: Mamata Banerjee says ED snatched our poll strategy, targets Union home minister KOLKATA: The ED on Thursday conducted searches at political consultancy firm I-PAC’s office in Salt Lake and its director’s Loudon Street home in connection with a five-year-old case, prompting CM Mamata Banerjee to call it political vendetta and…
