West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday mocked the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA’s target of winning 400-plus seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Speaking at a campaign rally for Trinamool Congress candidate Mahua Moitra in the Krishnanagar area, Mamata Banerjee also dared the BJP to win at least 200 constituencies. “The BJP is … Read more
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Thursday claimed that if the BJP returns to power at the Centre, the government would hike the price of cooking gas cylinder to ₹ 2,000. The chief minister was addressing a gathering at a government programme here in Jhargram district. “If the BJP wins the … Read more
The Trinamool Congress will contest the elections for Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats on its own and will only consider a pan-India alliance with the Congress after the results are announced, a furious Mamata Banerjee declared Wednesday, highlighting the increasingly bitter divide between two parties widely regarded as key members of the INDIA opposition bloc. … Read more
Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has taken a swipe at Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of “serving PM Modi” by allegedly hindering the possibility of an alliance between the two parties in Bengal. While some Congress leaders advocate for an alliance with Trinamool to consolidate anti-BJP votes, Chowdhury, aligned with the Left, … Read more
Angamitra Paul, a prominent member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), advised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to oppose Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and to run against him from her seat in Varanasi. “Why doesn’t Mamata Banerjee contest from Varanasi? If Mamata Banerjee dares to compete in place … Read more
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged that the renaming of islands in Andaman and Nicobar was done to merely “gain popularity” since Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had himself named the islands as ‘Shahid’ and ‘Swaraj’ Dweep when he had visited the archipelago in 1943. She also accused the Centre of scrapping … Read more
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Malviya today said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should start prioritizing people’s welfare over her “fragile ego”. “On the day, PM Modi, despite a personal tragedy, flagged off the Vande Bharat and launched projects worth 7,800 crore in WB, Mamata Banerjee chose not to share the … Read more
According to administrative sources, if the schedule remains unchanged, PM Modi may come to Kolkata for the ‘National Ganga Council’ or ‘Jatiya Ganga Parishad’ meeting on December 30. The Prime Minister himself is the president of that council. Mamata is also supposed to be at that meeting as the chief minister of the member-state of … Read more
Kolkata: The West Bengal government on Thursday verbally moved the chief justice’s bench at the Calcutta High Court, seeking permission to file a petition challenging a single bench order that directed the state police not to register any FIR against BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari without permission of the court. The move came after the Supreme … Read more
West Bengal: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is expected to officially announce Sundarbans and Basirhat as two new districts of the state during an administrative meeting scheduled on November 29, a senior official said on Monday. The two districts are set to be carved out of South and North 24 Parganas districts, he said. … Read more
St Xavier’s University in Kolkata will confer an honorary DLitt on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her contribution towards higher education in the state. Vice-Chancellor Father Felix Raj told PTI that the Chief Minister’s office (CMO) has given its approval to the university’s proposal of conferring her DLitt (Doctor of Letters) at its … Read more