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.
Miss Banerjee said the Pegasus snooping scandal was “bigger” than the 1972 Watergate scandal in the US, and coupled with the latest tax raids on media houses, signalled a “super-emergency” in the country.
She said the central government doesn’t have any data since several dead bodies of covid patients were thrown into the river, such as in Uttar Pradesh. “Were those bodies counted? Who will account for those corpses?”
"There is no point in bringing a doctor after the patient is dead. It will not be effective if we start uniting just few months before election. We have to start from now," Miss Banerjee said.
Banerjee covered her personal phone's camera lenses and speakers with tapes, fearing Pegasus spyware attacks. She said, "Pegasus is dangerous and ferocious”.
Mamata Banerjee observes July 21 as Martyrs' Day every year to remember the 13 persons who were killed at a Youth Congress rally in Kolkata in 1993. Eyeing the party's expansion, the TMC has decided to telecast Banerjee's address across West Bengal, and for the first time, also in other states like Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Punjab, Tripura and poll-bound Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.
