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  • Amit Mitra, Bengal finance minister since 2011, more likely to step down

    Senior Trinamool chief Amit Mitra is more likely to step down as West Bengal Finance Minister on account of ill-health, sources within the occasion mentioned.
    Though Mitra, 74, didn’t contest the just lately held Assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee handed the Finance portfolio to Mitra, who has held the put up since 2011, when the TMC first got here to energy in Bengal.
    Since he isn’t an MLA, Mitra can stay in his put up for a most of six months until he contests — and wins — a byelection.
    A senior Trinamool chief mentioned on situation of anonymity, “Amit Mitra will complete six months as state finance minister in the third Mamata Banerjee cabinet on November 4. As he is a non-MLA minister, he will have to leave the post after six months or seek election through bypolls. However, he has informed the party that he does not want to continue as state minister post November 4 due to ill-health.”
    The Indian Express tried to contact Mitra however he was not accessible for remark.
    Sources mentioned Banerjee is more likely to hold the Finance portfolio until she finds somebody appropriate to take cost as the following Finance Minister.

    Mitra was not current for the vote-on-account (interim finances) in February and in the course of the tabling of the state finances final week. Banerjee had introduced the interim finances on his behalf in February whereas state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee tabled the finances final week.
    A former FICCI secretary normal, Mitra has been a part of Banerjee’s decision-making staff since 2009, when the TMC was a part of UPA-2.
    After the occasion got here to energy in West Bengal in 2011, Mitra was made Finance Minister. He is a two-time MLA from Khardah constituency in North 24 Parganas. Besides finance, Mitra had additionally held the business portfolio since 2014.

  • TMC working with legal intuition, BJP will win in Bengal: Nadda rips aside Mamata govt | Key factors

    Image Source : PTI BJP National President JP Nadda addresses a Krishak Suraksha Sabha at Katwa, in Burdwan district of West Bengal, Saturday, Jan 9.
    Lashing out on the TMC over its outsider-insider debate, BJP chief JP Nadda on Saturday questioned whether or not attaching adjectives to his title
    and attacking his convoy is part of West Bengal’s tradition. In a latest video, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was seen purportedly mocking Nadda’s surname. Nadda alleged there’s misgovernance in West Bengal, the federal government equipment has been politicised, politics criminalised with the homicide of opponents and crimes in opposition to girls have develop into rampant. Stones had been hurled on the BJP chief’s convoy throughout his go to to Diamond Harbour in South 24 Parganas district on December 10 final yr.

     JP Nadda’s day-long go to in Bengal | Key Points

    Addressing BJP staff, folks in Bengal after his day-long go to, JP Nadda attacked the TMC-led authorities within the state saying, “there have been discussions by the TMC on people coming from outside West Bengal but what about the acts committed by the party and its supremo that go against the traditions, heritage and culture of the state.”
    Pointing on the crowd from his truck adorned with flowers, “Look at them. They are not BJP leaders but people of West Bengal. Mamata Ji, there have been talks by you and your party about people coming from outside. I want to ask you if attaching adjectives to my name is a part of the state’s culture?” he stated.
    “I want to ask you if hurling objects at my convoy in Diamond Harbour is a part of West Bengal’s culture. I want to ask the TMC if extortion activities by syndicates in coal, cattle and sand smuggling and taking ‘cut-money’ goes in sync with the state’s culture. The answer is no. The TMC has lost the right to talk about West Bengal’s culture,” Nadda stated to thundering applause.
    Claiming that solely the BJP can carry ahead the legacy of Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and different icons of West Bengal, Nadda stated the BJP follows the beliefs of Jan Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee who believed {that a} single nation can not have two flags.
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    Describing his kilometre-long roadshow as “historic”, Nadda stated folks of the state have given a “quit notice” to the Mamata Banerjee authorities. Nadda accused the state authorities of depriving the folks of the state of the advantages of central schemes like PM Kisan Samman Nidhi and Ayushman Bharat.
    He alleged that the TMC authorities is scared to face the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) audit report on reduction within the aftermath of tremendous cyclone Amphan.
    Thousands of BJP staff had hit the Grand Trunk Road on a stretch from Clock Tower to Curzon Gate within the coronary heart of Barddhaman city as Nadda, holding a reproduction of a plough, showered petals and waved at them from his car.
    BJP leaders from West Bengal comparable to state chief Dilip Ghosh, Asansol MP and Union minister Babul Supriyo, Barddhaman-Durgapur MP SS Ahluwalia and Rahul Sinha accompanied Nadda on the truck. Nadda later supplied puja on the Sarbamangala temple within the city.
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