Dinesh Trivedi recently resigned from Rajya Sabha, where he was a member of Trinamool. New Delhi: Former Railways Minister and Deputy of the Trinamool Congress, Dinesh Trivedi, joined the BJP today, the latest in a long list of such defections in recent months. The 70-year-old’s turnaround, of course, comes just …
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No prime minister has ever visited Assam’s historic Dhekiajuli, where 13 died during the Quit India movement. Kolkata / Guwahati: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit the polling states of West Bengal and Assam today for the second time in just over two weeks. He was in Kolkata on January …
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Trinamool Congress party workers stopped former party MP Sunil Mondal’s car in front of the BJP state headquarters in central Kolkata and staged a protest on Saturday morning, prompting a further escalation of tensions between the two parties before the elections to the Assembly in the state. Following the incident, …
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On Thursday, Congress formally announced its alliance with left-wing parties for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal. West Bengal Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury tweeted the announcement. “Today the high command of Congress has formally approved the electoral alliance with the left parties in the imminent election of West …
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At least two rogue legislators from the Trinamool Congress, including Jitendra Tiwari, who had resigned from the party, took a 180-degree turn on Friday. While Tiwari, a TMC MLA from Pandabeshwar, had resigned from the party after accusing top leaders of depriving the city of Asansol and not allowing central …
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Former Cabinet Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) Heavyweight Legislator Suvendu Adhikari is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during Union Interior Minister Amit Shah’s visit to the forced-to-vote state. At the end of the week. Adhikari aides and BJP leaders told HT that the decks are being cleared …
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The Oxford Union debating society postponed West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s virtual speech late on Wednesday afternoon, citing unforeseen problems. “The request has been made by phone from the organizers, citing some unforeseen problems, a while ago. The program with Oxford Union today is canceled, ”the state Department of …
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Seventeen days after Union Interior Minister Amit Shah visited Bankura district in western West Bengal, discussed the elections with the region’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and had lunch at a home tribal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in the district on Sunday afternoon. . Shah spent about eight hours …
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With the Bihar elections ending and the festive season drawing to a close, the Bharatiya Janata Party is now shifting its entire focus to West Bengal, plunging fully into the election campaign for the crucial 2021 assembly elections. While, on the one hand, the BJP has made a number of …
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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chairman JP Nadda addressed a state executive meeting of the party’s West Bengal unit on Thursday via video conference, attacking Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and calling her a ‘barrier’ between the people of the state and ‘good plans for the needy’. “Mamata I did it becomes …
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