Despite regular visits by the task force to local markets, following instructions from chief minister Mamata Banerjee, a section of traders continues to sell vegetables, especially potatoes, onions, and garlic, at inflated prices once officials leave the premises.
Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee will preside over the meeting of the national working committee of the party tomorrow. The meeting will be held at her Kalighat residence.
Ahead of the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, the BJP has repeatedly accused the state government of antiHindu bias, citing incidents in Murshidabad's Beldanga and neighboring Bangladesh.
While in Birbhum district, police have conducted raids throughout the night and vehicle full of cattle, coal and stone have been seized from the highways and drivers arrested.
Senior BJP leader and Member of Parliament Jyotirmoy Singh Mahato, a member of the Parliamentary Committee for home affairs, has written today to West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, urging her to increase the monthly assistance under the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme to Rs 2,000.
The ruling Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress in its response said that the BJP was needlessly politicising the issue and the women were caught stealing, which prompted outraged by the locals.
Banerjee today hailed the state for being chosen by the Union government as the “Best State” to have been selected as the recipient of a prestigious “Bhoomi Samman Platinum” Award for its outstanding achievement in modernization of land records. Expressing her delight for the honour, Miss Banerjee in a tweet said:
Chief minister and Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee said the saffron party does business of violence and atrocities on women on Thursday.
In fact, July 21 is etched in the memory of the Trinamool leaders who were part of the processions which took place that day twenty years ago, in 1993.
A fresh tussle between the Raj Bhavan and the state secretariat in West Bengal has erupted and this time it is over the date of commencement of the forthcoming monsoon session of the Assembly.
