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NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced the rollout of the proposed “Annapurna Bhandaar” scheme in the state, under which eligible women may receive Rs 3,000 per month directly into their bank accounts, as the party promised ahead of polls.The decision was taken during the first cabinet meeting of the new…
NEW DELHI: Newly elected Suvendu Adhikari’s government on Monday allocated portfolios to five ministers in West Bengal. Dilip Ghosh received the state’s rural development, panchayats, and animal resources department and Agnimitra Paul is set to head women and child welfare.Moreover, Ashok Kirtania got the state’s food department, Khudiram Tudu received backward class welfare department and…
NEW DELHI: Newly appointed West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday chaired his first cabinet meeting and took six decisions, ending the deadlock between the state and Centre that had led to the stalling or outright rejection of several key initiatives.After the cabinet meeting, Adhikari said that the new journey of good governance, security…
Chandranath Rath, a close aide of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, was shot dead by motorcycle-borne assailants. KOLKATA: A Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of Suvendu Adhikari’s personal assistant Chandranath Rath has arrested three people and widened its probe across multiple states, with cops suspecting that hired sharpshooters brought in from outside West Bengal…
KOLKATA: Bengal’s first BJP chief minister, Suvendu Adhikari, may soon change his Kolkata address from his Chinar Park flat to the Soujanya complex in Alipore.PWD is actively considering whether Soujanya can be used as the temporary residence of the chief minister. Senior police officials, led by joint police commissioner Rupesh Kumar, visited the building on…
KOLKATA: Forty-eight hours after he was relieved by the EC as the special observer on May 7, retired IAS officer Subrata Gupta was on Saturday appointed adviser to chief minister Suvendu Adhikari. The appointment order came within hours after Adhikari took oath as CM at a ceremony at Brigade Parade Grounds.The state also appointed IAS…
KOLKATA: Chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday asked supporters to stop raising ‘Jai Shri Ram’ slogans at Jorasanko Thakurbari, saying that as CM he now “belongs to everyone”.“Eta political kochkochir somoy na (this is not the time for political bickering),” Adhikari said at the ancestral home of Rabindranath Tagore, which he visited minutes after being…
After the oath ceremony, a visibly emotional PM knelt before the crowd and touched his forehead to the ground. “I bow to West Bengal’s Jana Shakti! The people’s blessings are the truest strength of democracy and the noblest source of public resolve,” Modi later posted on X. He posted a second message congratulating the new…
KOLKATA: BJP began its first stint in office in Bengal on Saturday with Suvendu Adhikari being sworn in as the state’s first saffron chief minister along with five cabinet ministers, as PM Narendra Modi joined a lakh-plus crowd at Brigade Parade Ground in Kolkata to witness a former Left and then centrist bastion take a…
KOLKATA: BJP Legislative Party leader Suvendu Adhikari today took oath as the state’s first BJP chief minister, marking a major political development in West Bengal.The swearing-in ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, JP Nadda, and Dharmendra Pradhan, along with Tripura chief minister Manik Saha, Assam chief…
