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  • Suvendu Adhikari urges people of West Bengal to vote for BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

    Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday said that the people of West Bengal should exercise their fundamental right of voting and should consider the BJP for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.

    “We are responsible choices. Congress has been tested and rejected. So was the CPIM. We have seen in the last 11 years, how the party has been. Now, people should exercise an alternate responsible choice,” Adhikari said. “BJP will continue to fight against Trinamool Congress and Mamata Banerjee unless Banerjee becomes a former CM of the state,” the BJP leader added.

    “In Lok Sabha polls, defeat of Trinamool Congress is evident,” Adhikari said. “Women are consolidated against Trinamool Congress following the Sandeshkhali incident.”Ghar Wapsi of BJP MLA Soumen Roy, who won from Kaligunj with a BJP ticket in 2021 returned to BJP fold today. “It is a homecoming after 2.5 years. I won’t call it defect. Roy is a Rajbonshi community representative and his soul and family was with BJP. Originally a BJP MLA, Roy had defected to Trinamool Congress and now returns,” Adhikari said.

    “We are not willing to return home for everyone. We have refused such home return of Mukul Roy. We have allowed his gharwapsi of Roy as he never spoke against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party as such. Rajya Sabha MP Anant Maharaj has advised Roy to work in Bengal,” Adhikari said.

    Roy said his family is with the BJP. After the recent incident, Roy who returned to BJP expressed disbelief over TMC using the death of children for political gains. Adhikari meets CEOAdhikari said, “Bengal will witness different kinds of vote this time. It is not similar to what and how opposition was in CPIM’s time where Biman Basu ate fish fry with Mamata Banerjee.” “We have submitted 15,000page documents at the CEO office. We have urged him to take steps on the fake voters’ list,” Adhikari said, adding “Using a section of District Magistrates, major mismanagement has been done by the state administration. We have submitted 16.91 lakh fake voters’ lists.”

    “Today, we have submitted a list of 17 lakh plus duplicate voters to the EC in Bengal, where the name, relation name and age are exactly the same. Incidentally, in 2019, the gap between the BJP and TMC was 17 lakh,” Adhikari said in his X handle.

    “If elections in WB are to be fair, EC must clean up the duplication…” he said.

    In total, 150 companies of central forces will be coming to Bengal ahead of the declaration of Lok Sabha polls.

  • Bengal LoP, suspended from meeting, protests after being prevented from coming into chamber

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who has been suspended from the West Bengal Assembly for the complete session until the House is prorogued, on Monday staged a sit-in protest on the premises after he was prevented from coming into his chamber.

    Adhikari, together with 4 different BJP MLAs, was suspended by the speaker from the meeting after legislators from the saffron get together and the TMC got here to blows contained in the House on the final day of the finances session in March over the Birbhum killings.

    Prorogation is discontinuing a session of Parliament or a Legislative Assembly with out dissolving it. When Adhikari, the Nandigram MLA, got here to the meeting, he was prevented from coming into his chamber citing the suspension discover.

    Infuriated, he and another BJP legislators sat on an illustration close to the statue of B R Ambedkar on the premises. “This is autocratic. For the first time, an LoP has been stopped from entering his chamber in the assembly. The entire country knows how I was suspended in an undemocratic manner. As I am not allowed to enter my chamber, I would carry out my official work from this spot every day. This will be my office till I get to enter my chamber,” he informed reporters.

    Speaker Biman Banerjee couldn’t be contacted for a remark.

    Senior TMC chief and get together chief whip within the meeting, Nirmal Ghosh, mentioned Adhikari ought to cease making a scene as he’s nicely conscious {that a} suspended member will not be allowed to enter the meeting premises.

    “Any member who has been suspended is generally not allowed to enter the assembly premises. He (Adhikari) is very well aware of it. He is just doing drama to get some mileage in the media,” he mentioned.

    Adhikari, together with BJP legislators Dipak Burman, Shankar Ghosh, Manoj Tigga and Narahari Mahato, was on March 28 suspended for the complete session until the House is prorogued.

    The House had plunged into chaos on that day as MLAs of each side engaged in fisticuffs, resulting in the hospitalisation of a number of the legislators.

    The incident occurred after BJP MLAs trooped to the nicely, demanding a press release by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over the “worsening” regulation and order state of affairs within the wake of Birbhum killings, through which 9 individuals (eight at the moment) died of burn accidents after assailants threw petrol bombs at a number of homes in Bogtui village close to Rampurhat on March 21 following the homicide of native TMC chief Bhadu Sheikh.

    Even because the speaker tried to pacify the BJP MLAs, who continued sloganeering, a confrontation broke out with legislators of the treasury bench which finally led to the ugly scuffle.

    The incident introduced again recollections of opposition Left and ruling TMC legislators buying and selling blows in December 2012 on the ground of the House, resulting in accidents on each side.

  • Congress appoints VD Satheesan as Leader of Opposition in Kerala Assembly

    By Express News Service
    T’PURAM: A technology shift is lastly being witnessed within the State Congress with the appointment of VD Satheesan because the Congress Legislative Party chief (CLP). 

    Satheesan’s appointment comes after MP Rahul Gandhi and Congress National General Secretary KC Venugopal stood agency in supporting Satheesan, braving the stress ways raised by Oommen Chandy and the incumbent Opposition Leader Ramesh Chennithala. 

    The resolution to nominate Satheesan because the CLP was knowledgeable by Mallikarjun Kharge, the central observer, who was assigned to supervise this choice to State Congress President Mullapally Ramachandran.

    Satheesan will turn into the following Opposition Leader within the fifteenth Kerala Legislative Assembly as soon as Mullapally provides the letter to the pro-term Speaker informing him of the Congress social gathering’s resolution. 

    The two factional leaders lower a sorry determine after they determined to unite, which had not gone down properly with a cross part of the leaders, particularly among the many social gathering employees. A rift was seen taking place within the factions a lot to the apprehensions of Oommen Chandy and Chennithala. 

    It was the 4 ‘A’ group MLA’s PC Vishnunath, M Vincent, Shafi Parambil and T Siddique who performed spoilsport for Chennithala on the assembly chaired by Mallikarjun Kharge. 

    Despite Oommen Chandy’s demand earlier than his group leaders to again Chennithala, these 4 legislators challenged the group diktat and maintained that solely a “change” can convey again the misplaced glory of the Congress. They duly knowledgeable the central observer about their alternative. 

    The normal outcry among the many youth MLA’s was that solely a technology shift would allow the Congress social gathering to bounce again at a time when the CPM management had come out with contemporary faces of their LDF ministry. 

    Rahul Gandhi had at all times stood for younger blood a lot to the frustration of Chennithala who had been lobbying arduous for one more time period in workplace. Within minutes of the announcement from the nationwide capital on Satheesan’s appointment, Mullapally wished him one of the best in his new position.

    “I am hoping Satheesan will shine in his new capacity. I do not know when his name came to the forefront of the CLP leader’s role. Satheesan has already proved his mettle as a legislator. I will be giving a letter to the Speaker informing him of the central Congress leadership’s decision in proposing Satheesan as the next Opposition Leader”, mentioned Mullapally.

    When there was a tug of conflict between Satheesan and Chennithala and the central Congress management dilly dallying on their alternative, senior Congress chief A Okay Antony ensured that Mallikarjun Kharge ought to confide to the three senior leaders earlier than making the official announcement. Chennithala then referred to as up Satheesan and congratulated him.

    “The meeting to select the CLP leader had decided to entrust the Congress High Command and now they have chosen Satheesan. I am agreeing to the Congress High Command’s decision to appoint Satheesan”, mentioned Chennithala in a press release.

    The UDF allies, together with the Indian Union Muslim League have welcomed Satheesan’s appointment. Even although the allies too needed a change of guard on the social gathering and parliamentary ranges, they’d taken a stand that regardless of the central Congress management takes, they’ll abide by it. But the grape vine was that they too wished to see a generational shift.

  • Suvendu to be new Leader of Oppn; takes dig at Mamata

    The BJP on Monday unanimously selected the social gathering’s Nandigram MLA and former state minister Suvendu Adhikari because the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) within the new West Bengal Assembly.
    Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad introduced Adhikari’s identify because the chief of BJP Legislature Party after a gathering of social gathering MLAs on the BJP election workplace within the metropolis’s Hastings space. Prasad was one of many social gathering’s observers for the election together with senior chief Bhupendra Yadav.
    Prasad and social gathering nationwide vice-president and MLA Mukul Roy, who was thought-about one of many frontrunners to go the BJP legislature social gathering, proposed Adhikari’s identify for the publish and was seconded by 22 MLAs. Since BJP is the biggest Opposition social gathering with 77 seats, the Nandigram MLA routinely grew to become the Leader of the Opposition.
    With one seat, the Indian Secular Front (ISF) is the opposite Opposition social gathering within the Assembly. Independent MLA RS Lepcha, belonging to the Binay Tamang faction of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), will signify Kalimpong.
    At the BJP assembly, Adhikari’s predecessor Manoj Tigga was chosen because the social gathering’s chief whip within the Assembly. The new appointments got here on a day 43 TMC MLAs had been sworn-in as ministers in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s authorities.
    “In this Assembly polls, we’ve got to see three issues. One is a chief ministerial candidate who misplaced the election has been sworn in as chief minister — this occurred for the primary time in Bengal. Second, for the primary time, there will likely be no representatives from the Congress and Left Front within the House; and third, for the primary time 77 BJP MLAs will likely be within the Assembly.
    “I will try to fulfil my duty and responsibility as the Leader of the Opposition,” Adhikari mentioned after his election. The BJP chief, who joined the social gathering final December, defeated Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram by 1,956 votes. “I will work to fulfil the expectations of the people of Bengal. I will help the state government for its positive efforts but also raise my voice against violence going on,” he mentioned.
    Adhikari mentioned, “My first duty will be to make the state violence-free. Several BJP workers are being killed and over 1 lakh cadres had to take shelter in Assam. This should stop,” he added.
    State BJP president Dilip Ghosh mentioned, “We are for serving the people and we will fight for them to every extent. If needed, we will agitate outside the Assembly,” he added.
    — with pti inputs

  • AIADMK MLAs assembly on Friday to decide on legislative chief amidst OPS-EPS tussle

    A gathering of the newly elected All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) MLAs is scheduled to happen Friday on the social gathering headquarters at Royapettah in Chennai.
    The assembly takes place within the backdrop of the meeting election outcomes whereby, the AIADMK misplaced the battle in opposition to DMK, paving means for the later to return to energy after a interval of 10 years.
    The DMK-led alliance gained 159 seats whereas the AIADMK grabbed 75 seats within the 234-member home. On their very own, DMK gained 133 and AIADMK netted 66 seats.

    Over one third of the AIADMK ministers misplaced their seats within the meeting polls. Except for the western area, which has at all times remained an AIADMK fortress, the efficiency of the social gathering in different areas was abysmal. In Chennai, the social gathering misplaced all of the 16 seats.
    With the social gathering and its cadres nonetheless taking time to return to phrases with the loss and analyse what went mistaken, there have been few rumblings contained in the AIADMK camp. The social gathering is cut up between social gathering coordinator O Panneerselvam and joint coordinator Edappadi Okay Palaniswami over selecting AIADMK’s Legislature Leader.
    In the previous couple of days, a beeline of newly-elected MLAs has been witnessed on the residences of each Edappadi and Panneerselvam. B Valarmathi, one of many senior AIADMK members, additionally visited Edappadi at his residence. After the assembly, she instructed media individuals that the newly-elected MLAs will resolve the opposition chief. When requested about her goal of the go to, she stated it was a courtesy name and added that the social gathering is above people and everybody will observe the choice of the social gathering excessive command.
    Party spokesperson Vaigaichelvan stated there’s completely no distinction of opinion throughout the AIADMK camp and the method of electing the Leader of the Opposition can be carried out in a clean method.
    “There is no problem at all. A decision would be taken tomorrow (Friday). Senior members are visiting them (EPS, OPS) as a courtesy call post the election results,” he instructed indianexpress.com.
    However, few of the senior members, near the social gathering excessive command, have a special say. According to them, OPS had expressed his want to turn into the Leader of the Opposition however EPS stays unmoved. In the conferences with senior leaders submit the election outcomes, OPS had claimed that among the pre-poll selections of EPS like asserting the ten.5 per cent reservation to the Vanniyar neighborhood has backfired for the social gathering.

    “It’s true that OPS expressed his desire to become the Leader of the Opposition having served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu in the absence of Amma. He sent his set of representatives including one of the senior party coordinators to speak to EPS over this but EPS is stubborn about being the face of the party. He feels that he has saved the party in tough times,” a senior social gathering chief stated.
    Meanwhile, the DMK has despatched an invitation to each EPS and OPS for M Okay Stalin’s swearing-in ceremony scheduled to happen Friday at Raj Bhavan in Chennai.