Contai in East Midnapore turned into a battleground on Saturday over the elections to the Kanthi Cooperative Bank, with allegations and counter-allegations flying between the Trinamul Congress (TMC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and CPI-M.
BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Friday took a swipe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, stating that she should have been prepared for the protest she faced during her address at Kellogg College, Oxford University, as the world is aware of the situation of the state.
A decision on them will be taken by the party leadership only after chief minister Mamata Banerjee returns to Kolkata from her UK trip on Friday night.
Mr Islam was an assistant teacher of a secondary school in the Shibpur area of Howrah district.
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) strongly opposed the Disaster Management Amendment Bill passed in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, criticising its lack of scrutiny and centralisation of funds.
The Disciplinary Committee of the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday cautioned Humayun Kabir, Trinamool Congress MLA from Bharatpur constituency, to refrain from making controversial comments in public in future.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Election Commission of India (ECI) to examine the plea seeking disclosure of final authenticated voter turnout data for all polling stations within 48 hours of polling.
Trinamool Congress MPs from both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will raise the matter concerning issue of duplicate Electors Photo Identity Card (EPIC) numbers for voters from different states and fake Aadhaar cards, in the remaining days of the Budget Session of Parliament.
Kabir has been summoned to be present in front of the disciplinary committee on Tuesday to give an explanation to the queries on the points of dissatisfaction regarding his reply.
Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha MP, Abhishek Banerjee, on Saturday, cautioned his party leaders of possible events of making promises for arranging party posts taking either his name or that of the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), the Prashant Kishor-founded vote-strategy agency, that had been associated with the ruling party since the 2021 West Bengal election.
