West Bengal election results: After TMC debacle, Goutam Deb may quit as Siliguri mayor post | Kolkata News

KOLKATA: Siliguri mayor Goutam Deb has indicated that he may step down and rent out part of his house. The move follows his crushing defeat to BJP’s Shankar Ghosh by 73,192 votes.Siliguri is a major urban constituency in Darjeeling district of West Bengal, encompassing Siliguri city and surrounding suburban areas. As a commercial and transportation…

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Former bureaucrats quit CMO | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Former state chief secretaries, Alapan Bandyopadhyay and Hari Krishna Dwivedi, resigned from their positions as chief advisors to Mamata Banerjee following BJP’s sweeping mandate in the elections. Manoj Pant, another former chief secretary of Bengal, also resigned as principal secretary to the CM. “Apart from Bandyopadhyay, Dwivedi and Pant, several other retired officers serving…

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Suvendu Adhikari PA killed: 4 bikes, 8 gunmen, a blocked Scorpio: How Suvendu Adhikari’s aide was chased down ambushed near Kolkata airport | Kolkata News

As Rath’s car came to a halt, four assailants on two bikes pulled up next to the vehicle and started firing indiscriminately. KOLKATA: More chilling details have emerged in the killing of Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s close aide Chandranath Rath, who was chased, trapped and shot dead by bike-borne assailants near Kolkata airport late…

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71 out of 80 TMC MLAs attend Mamata’s 1st meet after polls | Kolkata News

Kolkata: Seventy-one of the 80 newly elected Trinamool MLAs attended a meeting convened by party chief Mamata Banerjee at her Kalighat residence on Wednesday, where she alleged that functionaries within her own party had “sabotaged” the assembly election, contributing to Trinamool’s defeat.“Some of our own people sabotaged us. We will examine all such allegations. A…

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‘Suvendu as CM’ slogans ring loud as Adhikari holds 1st meet in Nandigram since polls | Kolkata News

Nandigram: Amid slogans demanding the chief ministerial post for him, Suvendu Adhikari held his first public meeting in Nandigram since elections on Thursday. As locals cheered for him, slogans of “Suvenduda apni Nandigramer, Suvenduda CM (You belong to Nandigram, you are our CM)” rang out loud, with Adhikari saying the decision was not his to…

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