Kolkata: A day after launching “Matrishakti Bharosa card” for women, BJP on Thursday unveiled the “Yuvashakti Bharosa card” for youth, a physical token of the party’s commitment to both sections in its manifesto. Trinamool panned the saffron party for handing a “Matrishakti” card to a youth, alleging “mismanagement before the programme took off”.Tennis legend Leander…
Kolkata: Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma led a coordinated BJP attack on the Trinamool govt on Thursday, alleging that Bengal was “nurturing infiltrators” and had surrendered to “mafia raj”.Addressing a rally in Phansidewa, Darjeeling, Sarma said Bengal needed to seal its borders the way Assam and Tripura had to…
Kolkata: Trinamool has submitted a series of complaints to the Bengal chief electoral officer (CEO) against several senior BJP and AJUP netas for alleged violations of the Model Code of Conduct (MCC).TMC alleged that Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman used govt machinery, including a helicopter, to visit Serampore and Kalna on April 15. The complaint…
PINGLA (WEST MIDNAPORE): Their art, passed down from one generation to another, brings alive tales from Indian mythology on scrolls. But ahead of the assembly elections, the Chitrakars of West Midnapore’s Pingla are wielding their brush to paint a contemporary story — of protest at denial of their right to vote.Of the nearly 300 patachitra…
Kolkata: Calcutta HC on Thursday granted interim relief to Trinamool’s Nandigram candidate Pabitra Kar in an FIR alleging criminal intimidation and robbery.Justice Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee directed that while the probe may continue, no arrest or stringent steps can be taken against the candidate at this stage. The complaint was lodged against Kar by a local…
Kolkata: Of the 1,478 candidates contesting the first phase of the Bengal elections, almost one-fifth are crorepatis, most of them being Trinamool contenders. The poorest candidate, with assets of Rs 500, is from the new Aam Janata Unnayan Party. The figures were revealed in an analysis by Association for Democratic Rights (ADR) and West Bengal…
Kolkata: The Supreme Court’s order on the supplementary revised electoral roll on Thursday is yet to address the anxiety among several deleted voters who are still waiting to know about the tribunals’ take on their voting right in the assembly election to be held on April 23 and 29 in Bengal.The order now allows a…
Kolkata: A truck driver, Raju Kathat (43) from Rajasthan, was allegedly terrorised and robbed by a local family and their associates in Bansdroni on Tuesday, allegedly after a stray dog was run over by his vehicle.According to the complaint, after Kathat had finished loading cargo and was preparing to depart around 11 am, he was…
A 43-year-old resident of Madhyamgram, Sumitava Mukherjee, submitted a written appeal to the DM on Thursday seeking permission for voluntary death for himself and his family after his name was struck off the electoral roll following the SIR.Mukherjee alleged that his name was arbitrarily deleted from the final electoral roll despite submission of all valid…
Kolkata: A general physician and owner of one of the port area’s most prominent nursing homes, also an ex-Trinamool MLA, will not be able to vote this time — along with four of his family members — thanks to SIR. The former legislator, Abul Kasem Molla, is shocked that the SIR has snatched voting rights…
