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  • Mamata Banerjee permits full occupancy in halls screening movie fest films

    Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday allowed full occupancy in cinema halls through the week-long Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), which was inaugurated through the day in an internet occasion attended by Hindi movie actor Shah Rukh Khan. This overrides the Centre’s guidelines permitting solely 50 per cent occupancy of theatres.
    “At present, because of the pandemic, only 50 per cent occupancy in cinema halls is allowed. I would ask the state’s chief secretary to come up with a notification today so that 100 per cent seats can be occupied,” Banerjee stated on the inauguration of the twenty sixth version of the KIFF.
    Mamata stated, “I would urge cinema hall owners to ensure that people wear face masks and use hand sanitisers. Sanitisation should be done after every show. Every audience member should carry his or her own sanitiser or a tissue paper. Nowadays, you also get machines with which you can sanitise the entire hall in just five minutes.”
    The present set of “unlock” pointers issued by the Centre, meant to permit a phased resumption of social and financial life, is in place until January 31.

  • EXCLUSIVE | TMC has turn into an organization with Mamata as chairman, Abhishek as MD: Suvendu Adhikari

    Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Suvendu Adhikari, who was as soon as thought-about to be a detailed aide of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, has described his former get together — Trinamool Congress (TMC) — as a ‘non-public restricted firm’. In an unique dialog with India TV, Adhikari minced no phrases to slam Mamata Banerjee whereas accusing her of favouring nephew Abhishek Banerjee and several other different senior Trinamool leaders.

    Adhikari criticised Mamata saying when a political get together turns into a ‘firm’ and left to inexperienced individuals like Abhishek, one has to half methods. He questioned TMC’s intention to serve the individuals of Bengal.

    Adhikari lauded the BJP saying it is going to kind the subsequent authorities in Bengal and fulfill the dream of ‘Sonar Bangla’.  He stated the saffron get together believes in ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vishwas’ and can deliver ‘Ram Rajya’ (good governance) in Bengal. 

    Suvendu Adhikari Interview | Highlights

    The individuals of Bengal are with the BJP. TMC might attempt to break the connection, however it will not succeed.
    TMC, a politicial get together has now become a ‘non-public restricted firm. TMC’s chairman is Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee is the managing director. And I-PAC (Prashant Kishor) is ‘thekedar’ (contractor) of TMC firm.
    I used to be eliminated because the president of youth brigade of TMC in 2014 and he (Abhishek) was given the cost. Everything was performed as per a plan. Even Somen Mitra, a senior chief, was faraway from his parliamentary seat.
    Picture abhi baaki hai, ye to trailer chal rha hai. BJP will get clear majority.
    I’m feeling excellent, I’m having fun with. Didi has been abusing me each day. This reveals that I’ve disturbed TMC’s vote share already.
    ALSO READ | Some hurting get together from inside, ‘anti-termite’ resolution vital: TMC MLA Vaishali Dalmiya

    Amit Shah has already stated that the BJP will win 200 seats in Bengal, and it’ll occur.
    Mamata Didi is busy in appeasing the minority. However, it will not work. Issues like electrical energy, street, training proceed to be uncared for. Nothing has been performed for the downtrodden and poor individuals.
    Ram does not belong to at least one specific group or any get together. Ram Rajya and Sushasan (good governance) is our precedence.
    There is not any place for violence in politics. This ought to finish. Roots of political violence should be pulled out and solely BJP can do it.
    BJP is the one get together that may fulfill the dream of ‘Sonar Bangla’. People will reject TMC and elect BJP this time.
    Suvendu Adhikari had resigned from TMC and joined the BJP within the presence of Union Home Home Minister Amit Shah throughout a rally in Midnapore on December 19, 2020.
    Adhikari was the face of the Nandigram motion that propelled Mamata Banerjee to energy in Bengal in 2011. Adhikari’s father Sisir Adhikari and brother Dibyendu are sitting TMC MPs from Tamluk and Kanthi Lok Sabha constituencies respectively.
    The Adhikari household is taken into account to be an influencial within the Junglemahal area having over 40 meeting segments. The household additionally has a following is a few minority-dominated Murshidabad district.
    (With inputs from Pawan Nara)

    ALSO READ | Mamata makes an attempt to blunt BJP’s allegation over PM Kisan Scheme, agrees to implement it in Bengal

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  • Mamata makes an attempt to blunt BJP’s allegation over PM Kisan Scheme, agrees to implement it in Bengal

    Image Source : PTI File picture: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press convention on the state secretariat Nabanna in Kolkata.
    BJP nationwide normal secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Friday stated that the saffron celebration, after voted to energy in West Bengal, will make sure that
    every farmer of the state will get Rs 18,000 in arrears below the PM Kisan scheme. The assertion of Vijayvargiya, the BJP’s West Bengal in-charge, got here days after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee agreed to implement the central scheme within the state, below which farmers get Rs 6,000 a 12 months in three equal instalments.

    The resolution of the Trinamool Congress supremo, taken months earlier than the meeting election, is being seen as a transfer to blunt the BJP’s accusation that her celebration is stopping farmers of the state from getting advantages of the scheme.

    “Farmers of Bengal will get their due after the Mamata Banerjee government goes and the BJP government comes to power,” Vijayvargiya stated, whereas addressing a celebration rally at Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district.

    They can be paid Rs 18,000 every in arrears, the quantity which has already been transferred to the financial institution accounts of farmers in the remainder of the nation, he stated. The mafia controls coal and sand mining within the state and indulges in cattle smuggling, he alleged, asserting that these concerned in such rackets can be pushed out of the state by the BJP.

    ALSO READ | Mamata Banerjee permits cinema halls in Bengal to function with 100 per cent occupancy

    Describing the TMC as a virus, the BJP’s West Bengal president Dilip Ghosh who additionally addressed the rally, stated that his personal celebration is its vaccine which can make the ruling celebration go away the state after May.

    The meeting election within the state is due in April-May. Claiming that the BJP already has 1.5 crore members in West Bengal, Ghosh stated that just about 29,000 instances have been filed in opposition to BJP employees within the state to intimidate them.

    “The previous Left Front and the current TMC dispensation failed to deliver. The BJP will ensure that the state marches ahead in the path of development,” he stated. Ghosh alleged that the cash meant for reduction after cyclone Amphan has been looted and misappropriated by TMC employees and leaders.

    “The parivartan (change) people had hoped for after the TMC came to power proved a mirage and now there’s the need for another parivartan,” he stated. Ministers and leaders of the TMC are leaving the celebration as they aren’t getting due respect and place, the BJP state president claimed.

    “Mamata Banerjee is now accusing us of breaking her party. What had she done to other parties earlier in the state?” he requested, claiming that the TMC had made a number of MLAs of the Congress and Left events be part of the celebration.

    Holding that the anti-land acquisition motion of the TMC at Singur, which led to the shifting of Tata Motors’ Nano automotive plant to Gujarat, was “wrong”, BJP nationwide vice chairman Mukul Roy stated that West Bengal didn’t get any trade for the reason that firm was compelled to go away.

    “If we win the elections, we will urge the prime minister to get the Tatas back in Singur for the sake of rejuvenation of industry in the state,” stated Roy who was within the TMC through the motion at Singur. He, nonetheless, stated that Nandigram agitation was a distinct subject for the reason that Left Front authorities had forcibly taken away land from poor farmers, and Suvendu Adhikari led that motion of the individuals.

    Adhikari, who lately resigned because the TMC MLA of Nandigram and joined the BJP, alleged that stones have been thrown through the assembly to create chaos and disturbance.

    “Even the CPI(M) during its rule had not done any such thing when the TMC held meetings,” Adhikari stated.

    He thanked BJP leaders L Ok Advani, Rajnath Singh and the late Sushma Swaraj for his or her help to the Nandigram motion in 2007 in opposition to the Left Front governments transfer to accumulate farmlands for organising a particular financial zone (SEZ).

    ALSO READ | Congress, Left events to carry mega joint rally in poll-bound Bengal

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  • Mamata Banerjee permits cinema halls in Bengal to function with 100 per cent occupancy

    Image Source : PTI Mamata Banerjee has allowed cinemal halls in Bengal to run with full occupancy.
    Cinema halls within the state can function with one hundred pc occupancy, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee introduced on Friday. Speaking at a digital occasion to inaugurate the sixth Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), Mamata stated cinema halls could have adhere to all Covid security guidelines. 

    The CM, whereas delivering her inaugural tackle from state secretariat Nabanna, requested the cinema corridor homeowners to take care of all security protocols together with common sanitisation of the theatres.

    ALSO READ: Won’t permit Bengal to turn out to be Gujarat: Mamata Banerjee

    Mamata’s announcement got here a day after the Centre raised objections over the same order of full occupancy of cinema halls issued by the Tamil Nadu authorities. The state authorities was requested to take again the order. 

    In a letter to the Tamil Nadu authorities, Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla has acknowledged that the ‘unlock’ tips set by the Centre shouldn’t be diluted. The newest tips might be in place until January 31, the Union Home Minister had stated. 

    ALSO READ: ‘BJP should buy a number of MLAs, however…’: Mamata’s frontal assault in Bolpur in response to Amit Shah’s mega rally

    Mamata’s announcement is more likely to set off a contemporary spherical of tussle between the Trinamool Congress authorities within the state and the Centre forward of the Assembly polls scheduled to be held in April/May. 
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  • ‘Courtesy go to’: Mamata Banerjee meets Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at Raj Bhavan

    Image Source : ANI ‘Courtesy go to’: Mamata Banerjee meets Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at Raj Bhavan
    Amid the rancour between the state authorities and Raj Bhavan, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee known as on Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, a improvement sources within the secretariat known as a “courtesy visit”. Banerjee went to the Raj Bhavan straightaway from the state secretariat Nabanna.
    “It’s only a courtesy visit. There is nothing official in it. The honourable CM wanted to exchange New Year greetings with the Governor,” a highly-placed official on the state secretariat advised PTI.

    She was with the Governor for round one hour.
    Banerjee’s go to assume significance within the backdrop of soured relations between the Governor and the ruling Trinamool Congress following Dhankhar’s frequent tweets on regulation and order state of affairs, problems with governance, risk of free and truthful polls and different points.
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  • No Indian will be branded as outsider in any a part of nation: Bengal Governor

    West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday mentioned that no Indian will be “unconstitutionally” branded as an outsider in any a part of the nation.
    Dhankhar, whereas addressing a press meet at Kolaghat throughout his go to to Purba Medinipur district, additionally mentioned he’ll do “everything possible” to make sure free and truthful state meeting elections more likely to be held in April-May.
    “No citizen of this country can be branded as an outsider in any part of India. It is unfortunate that some people in West Bengal are describing those coming from other states as outsiders. This goes against the idea of the Constitution,” he mentioned in response to questions on the TMC’s outsider-insider debate.
    The ruling get together in West Bengal has alleged that the BJP is bringing “outsiders” to the state to win the meeting elections.
    Dhankhar urged everybody to make sure that there isn’t any violence within the upcoming elections.
    “I urge everybody to make sure that there isn’t any bloodshed on this election. Is the governor doing something fallacious by making such a request?
    “It is my duty, the duty of all of us to ensure that there is no violence during the elections, which should be free and fair,” he mentioned, in an obvious reference to the TMC’s criticism of Dhankhar “transgressing” his constitutional limits.

    He additionally urged public servants to take care of political neutrality and never carry the luggage of “political police”.
    Dhankhar mentioned state authorities workers and police personnel “shouldn’t do things that are the job of political workers”, impartially do jobs solely assigned by the state and never political masters, and never carry the luggage of “political police”.
    Invoking freedom fighters from the undivided Medinipur district, the governor mentioned, “We have to save democracy. Remember Khudiram Bose and Matangini Hazra. The verdict is for free and fair elections. The public servants must ensure that.”
    He mentioned that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee should give particulars of the acquisition of apparatus price Rs 2,000 crore to struggle COVID-19.
    The governor visited Purba Medinipur district headquarters Tamluk and paid floral tributes to a statue of Matangini Hazra. He additionally paid respects to Khudiram Bose and different revolutionaries.

  • Shah Rukh Khan to be a part of twenty sixth Kolkata movie competition inauguration

    Asserting that the present should go on regardless of the pandemic scenario, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday mentioned celebrity Shah Rukh Khan will grace the digital inauguration of the twenty sixth Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) on January 8.
    The seven-day competition will start by paying tribute to 2 greats – auteur Satyajit Ray on his start centenary, and iconic Bengali actor Soumitra Chatterjee, who died of post-COVID issues in November final yr.

    Together we’ll overcome this pandemic. But the present should go on. We are going forward with #KIFF 2021 just about, on a smaller scale. Glad that my brother @iamsrk will be part of us just about on the inaugural occasion on Jan 8, 4pm. Watch Kolkata International Film Festival stay
    — Mamata Banerjee (@MamataOfficial) January 6, 2021
    “Together we will overcome this pandemic. But the show must go on. We are going ahead with #KIFF 2021 virtually, on a smaller scale. Glad that my brother Shah Rukh Khan will join us virtually at the inaugural event on Jan 8, 4pm,” Mamta Banerjee mentioned on Twitter.

    Satyajit Ray’s traditional Apur Sansar, which was Soumitra Chatterjee’s debut movie, can be screened on the inauguration.
    A complete of 131 movies — in characteristic, quick and documentary codecs — can be screened at choose state-run theatres of the town, together with Nandan and Rabindra Sadan.
    Superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan together with different large names of Bollywood had been company on the inaugural ceremony for the previous few years.

  • Laxmiratan Shukla quits Bengal Cabinet; will proceed as MLA, says Mamata

    West Bengal Minister of State for Youth Services and Sports Laxmi Ratan Shukla on Tuesday resigned from his submit, and stepped down as Howrah district president of the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
    Sources mentioned Shukla despatched his resignation letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, and mailed a duplicate to Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. The minister’s resignation got here nearly a fortnight after state transport minister Suvendu Adhikari left the ruling social gathering and joined the BJP. The former Indian cricketer’s resolution sparked hypothesis that he would be part of the BJP forward of BJP nationwide president JP Nadda’s go to to the state this month.

    However, Mamata Banerjee dismissed hypothesis that Shukla would additionally stop the TMC. “He is a very good boy. He wrote in the letter that he wants to concentrate more on cricket. He will continue as MLA. Do not try to speculate. I welcome his decision and I wish him all the best.”

  • In contemporary setback to Mamata Banerjee, TMC minister Laxmi Ratan Shukla resigns

    Image Source : LAXMI RATAN SHUKLA TWITTER  TMC minister Laxmi Ratan Shukla resigns
    In a contemporary setback to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress minister and former cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla has resigned from the federal government.

    Laxmi Ratan Shukla has additionally resigned from his submit because the Trinamool Congress district president in Howrah. However, Shukla continues to be a TMC MLA.

    Earlier this week, in a lift to the saffron camp in poll-bound West Bengal, 15 TMC councillors of Contai Municipality led by former administrator of the civic board and youthful brother of Suvendu Adhikari left the social gathering on Friday to hitch the saffron camp. Political heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari, who stop the Trinamool Congress to hitch the BJP final month, handed over social gathering flags to the councillors. Among them was his youthful brother Soumendu, the previous administrator of the 20-member civic physique.

    The politically influential Adhikari family has two different members within the TMC camp — his brother Dibyendu Adhikari and father Sisir Adhikari, each MPs.

    READ MORE: Another jolt to Mamata, 15 TMC councillors together with Suvendu’s youthful brother be part of BJP
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  • Mamata Banerjee hints at implementing PM-Kisan scheme in West Bengal

    Image Source : PTI/FILE Mamata Banerjee hints at implementing PM-Kisan scheme in West Bengal 
    Continuing her tirade in opposition to the Centre over the brand new farm legal guidelines, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday stated preparations would quickly be made to convene an meeting session to move a decision in opposition to the contentious Acts.

    With meeting polls knocking on the door, Banerjee additionally hinted that she was able to implement the PM-Kisan scheme in Bengal, if the farmers benefitted out of it and stated she had requested the Centre to share particulars of all those that have registered themselves on the Union authorities’s portal for the programme. Banerjee, nonetheless, asserted that stated she would by no means permit the implementation of the three farm legal guidelines, which have sparked protests throughout the nation.

    “We are against those farm laws. We would soon convene an assembly session for a day or two and pass a resolution against the anti-farmer laws,” Banerjee stated.

    Bengal, if it passes the decision, would change into the sixth state within the nation to take action, after Kerala, Delhi, Punjab, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

    The CM’s remarks got here on a day when the seventh spherical of talks between protesting unions and three central ministers ended inconclusively, as farmer teams caught to their demand for repeal of the three farm legal guidelines, whereas the federal government listed out numerous advantages of the brand new Acts for the expansion of the nation’s agriculture sector.

    “I support the farmers and want the withdrawal of these three laws for the sake of the country,” she stated, slamming the Centre for not revoking the Acts.

    READ MORE: PM Modi castigates Mamata, accuses her of depriving 70 lakh Bengal farmers of Centre’s money advantages

    Thousands of farmers, primarily from Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh, are protesting at Delhi borders for over a month in opposition to the three legal guidelines. They have stayed put regardless of heavy rain and waterlogging at protest websites over the past couple of days, apart from extreme chilly climate situations prevailing in and across the nationwide capital.

    Accusing the Centre of “pursuing politics” over the problem of implementation of PM Kisan Samman Nidhi in Bengal, Banerjee stated she would not let the farmers endure.

    “I had repeatedly asked the Centre to transfer funds allotted under the PM-Kisan scheme to the state government. That was never done. They (central government officials) claimed that around 21.7 lakh farmers from Bengal had registered themselves on a portal to get the benefits of the scheme. They (Centre) have sought verification of this data. I understood that the Centre was trying to politicise the matter. We also realised that farmers should not suffer because of this… I have asked the Centre to pass on the data so that we can start the verification process,” she stated.

    READ MORE: ‘People will not be misled’: PM Modi rips into opposition for spreading lies on new farm legal guidelines

    Under the PM-Kisan scheme, an earnings help of Rs 6,000 per yr in three equal installments is supplied to small and marginal farmer households.

    The chief minister additional added that she desires that farmers get all doable assist, along with the help being doled out by her authorities.

    “I want the farmers to get all benefits. We do have our schemes, but if they get extra benefits… let them avail it.  I don’t have any problem if they get the benefits. However, if the Centre doesn’t trust us with the verification process, then it is up to them,” she added.

    Banerjee had up to now opposed the implementation of central schemes, saying that her authorities would permit PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi and Ayushman Bharat programmes within the state, provided that funds to the beneficiaries are routed via the state authorities.

    BJP nationwide common secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya welcomed the choice of Banerjee to permit farmers to avail PM Kisan Samman Nidhi scheme. “It is good that the state government has decided to allow it. This will benefit lakhs of farmers of Bengal. And the farmers would realize the kind of politics the TMC was pursuing by depriving them of its benefits,” he stated.
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