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.
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is personally monitoring the ongoing preparations for the mega meeting of the 17 opposition parties scheduled to take place in Patna on Friday.
Ray, while responding to Mamata's projection as the Prime Ministerial candidate said it would be too early to draw such conclusions.
She passed on instructions to party leaders at a meeting at her Kalighat residence
Miss Banerjee visited Diamond Harbour this afternoon and tomorrow she will share the podium with Abhishek Banerjee, party’s national general secretary at Kakdwip to mark an end of the two-month long Jono Sonjog Yatra. The yatra began from Dinhata in Cooch Behar district on 25 April.
Violence during the filing of nomination papers for the rural body polls continued on Thursday with unconfirmed reports of the deaths of four persons in two separate incidents of political clashes.
