Kolkata: Trinamool’s former MLA from Barrackpore, filmmaker Raj Chakraborty, announced on Thursday that he is quitting politics.Chakraborty’s statement comes in the wake of former ministers and TMC functionaries publicly turning on the leadership, blaming organisational arrogance and grassroots disconnect for the poll debacle.In a note on social media, Chakraborty said: “My entry into political life…
Kolkata: Trinamool on Thursday demanded a court-monitored CBI investigation into the killing of Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath, while firmly denying any involvement in the murder.In a late-night statement on Wednesday, the party condemned “the brutal murder of Chandranath Rath in Madhyamgram, along with the killing of three other Trinamool workers in incidents of post-poll…
Kolkata: A day after Suvendu Adhikari’s aide Chandranath Rath was shot dead, Bengal BJP seniors on Thursday appealed for calm and restraint.Calling the killing heartbreaking, a distraught Suvendu Adhikari, who reached Barasat medical college on Thursday night, said: “Politicians often depend on key people who are not involved in politics”. Even while saying that Bengal…
Kolkata: “Didi, you have not lost,” said Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee while visiting her Kalighat residence on Thursday and accused BJP and the Election Commission of orchestrating a “multi-layered mafia-style” electoral manipulation in Bengal, alleging that the “Uttar Pradesh model” of rigging had been replicated in the state assembly…
Kolkata: The Brigade Parade Ground is set to don a carnivalesque look on Saturday, the day Bengal’s first BJP chief minister takes his oath. As party functionaries and workers get cracking on the preparations, massive waterproof, hangar tents are being set up to seat 50,000 people, 10,000 special invites are being sent out and work…
Kolkata: After the swearing-in ceremony on Saturday, the first BJP chief minister of Bengal will make a symbolic trip to Writers’ Buildings, which has served as the seat of power for over 200 years, before heading to Vidhan Sabha, where he will operate from the CM’s chamber until the old secretariat building is ready.While the…
Kolkata: As preparations gather pace for the BJP cabinet’s swearing-in on Saturday, lotus and jhalmuri—the first, the party symbol and the latter turned into a prominent motif during the campaign—witness an unexpected sales rise.Traders and vendors said demand had risen sharply amid victory rallies, celebrations and preparations for swearing-in. While saffron flags, caps and stoles…
Kolkata: The city police have flagged multiple fake posts on its social media between Wednesday and Thursday amid a surge of politically charged misinformation, and issued a series of warnings against such posts, urging citizens to rely only on official communication channels.Among the flagged posts was a WhatsApp “advisory” claiming prohibitory orders being imposed in…
Kolkata: There was tension in Topsia on Tuesday night after residents claimed some miscreants had foul-mouthed several of the local women. The two-and-a-half-hour stand-off led to former state minister and newly elected Kasba MLA Javed Ahmed Khan rushing to the spot. The unrest, sources claimed, was triggered after the daughter of one of Khan’s staff…
Kolkata: Multiple changes — some administrative and others violent takeovers — in outgoing CM Mamata Banerjee‘s Kalighat neighbourhood reflect the current upheaval in Bengal politics. Cops have removed all peripheral security from outside her home and from around Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee’s residence, a few hundred metres away. They have also started removing other security…
