The current political situation in West Bengal is ideal for breeding illegal immigration from Bangladesh and terror-related activities, veteran Congress leader and five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Saturday.
The West Bengal government on Thursday withdrew its affidavit in the election petition filed by Rekha Patra, the BJP candidate for Basirhat Lok Sabha constituency in North 24 Parganas district in the general elections this year.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Wednesday, launched a scathing attack against BJP over Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks on B.R. Ambedkar, claiming that this is a “display of BJP’s casteist and anti-Dalit mindset”.
Even though he avoided limelight throughout his life, last week he was a headline in all Kolkata newspapers including The Statesman. And, in all international newspapers earlier in the month.
West Bengal Joint Platform of Doctors, an umbrella association of senior doctors in the state, is planning a 10-day protest from Tuesday to condemn the “default bail” granted last week by a special court in Kolkata to the two accused in the RG Kar rape and murder case.
Amit Shah was also seen invoking the ongoing protests by the para teachers, who had recently demonstrated near Mamata Banerjee's residence for a salary hike.
Flagging-off goods train on Manigram-Nimtita newly electrified section under Eastern Railway virtually, he said, “West Bengal is lagging behind in terms of development and progress. We took up development projects in Bengal but many are stuck at different levels, largely due to land acquisition problems. We have projects in West Bengal that were approved years ago but still haven’t seen the light of day. This can be resolved if the state government would cooperate with Railways.”
Narendra Modi will visit Bengal on February 22 and address rallies at a ground in Chinsuriah and at another one near the closed Dunlop factory in Hooghly.
Dilip Ghosh said that family of Left and Congress workers were given jobs if they died, while more than 130 dead BJP workers didn't get anything.
BJP said it was their way to pray to the goddess to bring a safe environment for education and to ensure jobs for the educated youths in Bengal.
