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.
Visibly upset, BJP’s Siliguri MLA Sankar Ghosh, who is also the chief whip of the Opposition in the state Assembly, expressed frustration over his inability to utilise the Bidhayak Fund (MLA fund) for local area development.
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee today issued a stern warning against certain sections of the police and civil administration, saying that they are taking bribes and the blame is falling on Trinamul Congress leaders.
A lady sub-inspector, Nasrin Sultana, the officer in-charge of Rupnarayanpur police outpost has become the first woman to become the officer in-charge of a police station of Asansol Durgapur Police Commissionerate (ADPC) since its formation in September 2011.
The Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) has decided to suspend the supply of drinking water in its area for two days in order to connect pipelines between the old and the new ‘alternative permanent’ well of the existing water treatment plant at Fulbari.
Stressing on opposition unity ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, Banerjee said, "Every opposition party should be brought in. The fight is against the BJP. For this, those not allied with the Congress should also be invited in the meetings."
The details of the meeting are yet to be known, highly placed sources in the party said that Sushmita Deb's joining Trinamool Congress is only a matter of time.
In this year's state Assembly elections, the Trinamul Congress won as many as 29 of the 40 seats in the region.
A new entrant in preparing for the unity move is the political strategist used by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee and Sharad Pawar and some regional satraps.
No government, whether at the Centre or in the states, can afford to suffer what they call a “damburst”.
