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  • Support Mamata in battle in opposition to ‘communal’ BJP: TMC appeals to Left, Congress

    With the Assembly elections in West Bengal just some months away, ruling Trinamool Congress has appealed the Left entrance and the Congress to affix forces with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her battle in opposition to the “communal and divisive” politics of BJP.
    “If the Left Front and the Congress are genuinely anti-BJP, they should be behind Mamata Banerjee in her fight against the communal and divisive politics of the saffron party,” senior TMC MP Sougata Roy was quoted as saying by PTI.
    Elections to the 294-member state Assembly are due in April-May.
    Roy termed TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee because the “real face” of secular politics in opposition to the BJP. He additionally claimed that not one of many schemes launched by the BJP-led authorities on the Centre has labored efficiently.
    “The TMC’s narrative is of constructive criticism in the interests of development,” he mentioned.

    The TMC’s posturing comes amid the announcement of a proper electoral alliance between the Left and the Congress for the forthcoming elections in Bengal to tackle the Trinamool and an aggressive BJP.

    On Monday, the TMC supremo, whereas addressing a rally in Nadia district, had claimed that the BJP cadres would behave like Donald Trump supporters the day they lose elections.
    Targetting the BJP over a collection of defections from her Trinamool Congress to the saffron camp, she mentioned the BJP has became a “junk” celebration, which is “filling up its rank and file with corrupt and rotten leaders from other parties”.

  • TMC appeals to Left, Congress to assist Mamata in combat in opposition to BJP

    Image Source : PTI TMC appeals to Left, Congress to assist Mamata in combat in opposition to BJP
    The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday appealed to the Left Front and the Congress to again West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her combat
    in opposition to the “communal and divisive” politics of the BJP. Elections to the 294-member state meeting are due in April-May.
    “If the Left Front and the Congress are genuinely anti-BJP, they should be behind Mamata Banerjee in her fight against the communal and divisive politics of the saffron party,” senior TMC MP Sougata Roy instructed reporters.
    TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is the “real face of secular politics against the BJP”, he stated.
    Roy claimed that not one of the schemes launched by the BJP-led authorities on the Centre has labored efficiently.

    “The TMC’s narrative is of constructive criticism in the interests of development,” he stated.
    Referring to cattle-smuggling that has kicked up a political storm in poll-bound West Bengal, Roy stated it’s the obligation of the Border Security Force (BSF) and never the state police to stop this.
    “The BSF, which is under the central government, looks after the borders of the country. It is their duty and not that of the police to prevent cross-border smuggling of cattle,” the TMC MP stated.
    Launching a stinging assault in opposition to Union Home Amit Shah, who had visited the state final month, the senior lawmaker stated, “Instead of having lunch at different places, he should have visited the border to check whether the BSF is doing its job properly or not.”
    Responding to a question whether or not BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh would be the saffron social gathering’s chief ministerial candidate for the elections, he stated it’s an inner matter of the BJP.
    “Diamond Harbour MP and TMC youth wing chief Abhishek Banerjee has a much greater political experience than Ghosh, who has joined politics only in 2015, but even he never claimed to be the CM face of the TMC,” he added.

  • TMC-BJP clashes rock elements of Bengal, few injured

    Image Source : ANI TMC-BJP clashes rock elements of Bengal, few injured
    Clashes broke out between supporters of the ruling TMC and the BJP in a number of areas of East and West Midnapore districts of Bengal on Sunday, leaving a number of of them injured, sources within the two events stated. Maintaining that the TMC launched an assault on the activists of his get together, BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari stated such harassment would solely assist the saffron camp develop from power to power.
    “With every attack on our party workers, more people would come out in our support,” Adhikari, who give up the Mamata Banerjee camp to affix the BJP final month, advised reporters throughout a roadshow in Purulia.
    Workers of the 2 events additionally crossed swords at Bhajachauli in Kanthi space of East Midnapore district, the sources stated.

    Local BJP leaders alleged that a number of of its staff sustained accidents within the assault, even because the TMC claimed that infighting within the saffron camp led to the clashes.
    Violence was additionally reported from Marishda in East Midnapore district.
    At Keshpur in West Midnapore, activists of the 2 events allegedly fought one another with bricks and sticks. Denying the BJP’s allegation, TMC East Midnapore district president Ajit Maity stated that his get together, in actual fact, had been “showing restraint in the face of provocation by saffron party supporters”. 
     
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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.

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    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).

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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.

  • Bengal experiences first case of recent COVID pressure as son of senior official checks optimistic

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    Image Source : PTI Bengal experiences first case of recent COVID pressure 
    West Bengal on Wednesday reported its first case of a mutant coronavirus pressure that surfaced within the United Kingdom, a senior well being official mentioned.
    The affected person, son of a senior official of the state Health Department, examined optimistic for the Variant of Concern 202012/01 (VOC-202012/01) mutant coronavirus pressure after getting back from London 10 days in the past, the official mentioned.
    “The youth is undergoing treatment at the Calcutta Medical College and Hospital’s super-specialty section. He is under observation. We have advised all those who have come in contact with him to isolate themselves,” the official mentioned.
    He had examined optimistic for COVID-19 on the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on the day of his return to Kolkata, he mentioned.
    “As he had returned from the UK, we had despatched his samples to Kalyani’s National Institute of Biomedical Genomics for genetic evaluation as per the protocol set by the Centre.
    “The new strain of the coronavirus was detected during his genetic analysis. We had sent the report to Delhi-based National Centre for Disease Control, which has asked us to put him under strict isolation,” the official mentioned.
    Six others who had are available in contact with the youth on the airport additionally underwent genetic evaluation however examined damaging for the brand new COVID pressure, he mentioned.

    The youth, nevertheless, was not having “serious health issues” and was “quite okay” in the intervening time, the official mentioned.
    The state Health Department has determined to organize a listing of passengers who had shared the flight with the contaminated youth, he mentioned.
    The administration can also be planning to display the officers and the crew of the flight who had are available in contact with the youth, the official mentioned.
    “We are trying to locate them and find out about their health conditions, depending on which we will decide whether to conduct any medical examination. We will ask them to stay under home isolation,” he mentioned.
    Twenty circumstances of the mutant coronavirus pressure have to this point been reported throughout the nation, of which eight have been detected in Delhi and 7 in Bengaluru.
    The mutant pressure VOC-202012/01 is outlined by a set of 17 modifications or mutations.
    More than 40 nations together with India have banned journey to and from the UK, a transfer a number of scientists mentioned was crucial in view of the fast unfold of the VOC-202012/01, which was first detected on September 21. 
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  • Saradha rip-off: Salaries paid from CM aid fund, says CBI

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    Image Source : PTI Saradha rip-off: Salaries paid from CM aid fund, says CBI In a growth which can additional improve the political warmth in West Bengal the place Assembly polls are slated early subsequent yr, the CBI in a contempt plea within the Saradha chit fund rip-off has knowledgeable the Supreme Court that the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund of West Bengal repeatedly paid for a interval of 23 months, purportedly in direction of the salaries of workers of Tara TV which was below investigation for being a part of Saradha Group of firms. In an software, the CBI mentioned that the CM Relief fund has repeatedly paid the quantities — on the charge of Rs 27 lakh monthly — for a interval of 23 months from May 2013 to April 2015. “It is submitted that the said amounts were purportedly given towards salary payments of the employees of the said media company that was under investigation being part of group companies of Saradha Group of Companies,” mentioned the appliance. A complete of Rs 6.21 crore was paid to the Tara TV Employees Welfare Association from the Chief Minister Relief Fund of West Bengal. The CBI mentioned in an effort to additional look into the gravely suspicious funds to a personal media entity, a letter dated October 16, 2018 was written to the chief secretary, West Bengal to offer details about the structure and functioning of the Chief Minister’s Relief Fund. Despite repeated efforts, the state authorities has parted with incomplete and evasive replies, mentioned the CBI. The CBI cited the High Court order which ordered that the “salary of the employees should be paid from the available funds” and it nowhere states that workers of a personal TV channel will be paid out of state funds collected within the title of Chief Minister’s aid work. “The Court order expressly states that the employees are to be paid out of the funds of the company. The payments from CM Relief Fund, ex-facie point towards a larger conspiracy and nexus,” mentioned the appliance. Pointing the needle of suspicion at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee within the rip-off, the CBI mentioned: “Communication between the CBI and State Authorities will show that there has been a concerted effort to evade, avoid and to escape the process of law and a conscious effort on part of the authorities to scuttle the investigation.” The CBI pointed on the examination of former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Kumar Ghosh, one of many accused within the case, by Enforcement Directorate throughout October 2013 revealed that the Chief Minister and promoter of Saradha Group – Sudipta Sen, had excellent relationship. “It is submitted that the same establishes that the Chief Minister used to talk to Sudipta Sen using phone of Kunal Kumar Ghosh,” mentioned the appliance. The investigating company mentioned the decision element report of two numbers of Sen spanning for one yr reveals that he and Ghosh had contacted 298 instances on one quantity and 9 instances on one other quantity. Seeking custodial interrogation of former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajiv Kumar, the CBI mentioned investigation has additionally revealed that proof, which linked the ruling dispensation of West Bengal, financially and in any other case with Saradha group of firms was hid by the Bidhannagar police below stewardship of Kumar, in an effort to defend and save everybody involved. Ghosh’s examination as witness by the Enforcement Directorate, throughout October 2013, revealed that respondent Kumar was in energetic contact with officers of ED throughout the course of examination of arrested accused individuals, Sudipta Sen, Debjani Mukherjee or of witnesses Ghosh and others carried out by the Enforcement Directorate throughout September to November 2013. “It was ensured by the officials that grave facts narrated by these accused persons or witnesses must not be taken on record as part of investigation with a purpose to shield the influential persons,” mentioned the CBI. The CBI mentioned extra proof has emerged substantiating additional the energetic connivance of Kumar, the then Commissioner of Police, Bidhannagar, in shielding and defending the influential co-accused individuals who had promoted the unlawful enterprise actions of the group of Ponzi firms and benefited from the illegally collected funds. The CBI additionally cited examination of Safiqur Rehman, an worker of Saradha group of firms. “It is submitted that as per the said statement (by Rehman), when the Chief Minister, West Bengal contested for MLA seat, Sudipta Sen was forced to sponsor all the Pujas of Bhawanipur, Kolkata. Rehman further stated that ‘Jangalmahal’ project was flagged off by Chief Minister, West Bengal in a ceremony held at Writers Building, Kolkata,” mentioned the appliance. In 2013, throughout Kumar’s tenure because the Bidhannagar police commissioner, the rip-off was unearthed. Kumar was a part of the SIT arrange by state authorities to probe the rip-off, earlier than the highest courtroom handed over the investigation to CBI in 2014. The prime courtroom, in November final yr, had sought the response of the IPS officer on the CBI’s attraction in opposition to the anticipatory bail granted to Kumar within the case by the Calcutta High Court. Latest India News

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  • Bhupesh Baghel : “Are Interfaith Marriages In BJP Leaders’ Families Love Jihad?”

    Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel, slamming the Bharatiya Janata Party-led states on Saturday, asked whether inter-religion marriages of family members of BJP leaders will fall under the definition of ”love jihad”.

    “Family members of several BJP leaders have also performed inter-religion marriages. I ask BJP leaders if these marriages come under the definition of ”love jihad”?” the Chattisgarh CM asked while addressing the media.

    Bhupesh Baghel, after the recent debacle over the announcement of laws to curb “Love Jihad” by BJP-ruled states, asked if BJP leaders who were in interfaith marriages “like Subramaniam Swamy and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi” would also be considered to be under the ambit of “love jihad”.

    “Love jihad is an attempt at communalising the society, raised with a clear intention of gaining votes in West Bengal election. They want to divide the voters on the basis of religion and attract Hindu voters,” Mr Baghel told the Sunday Express.

    Stressing that there are already laws to tackle the issues related to marriage, Mr Baghel said: “This new law is only a political move. How many people’s marriages will they scrutinize? And if they are scrutinizing marriages, would they do it with their own party members as well.”

    This comes after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had recently announced that his government will bring a strict law to curb “love jihad” and forcible religious conversion. Before Adityanath, Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government in Madhya Pradesh had said the state would soon have a law against ”love jihad”.

    The BJP has been voicing the alleged issue of forced conversion and marriage of Hindu girls with Muslim grooms as “Love Jihad”. However, earlier in February, Home Ministry had told Parliament that no case of ‘Love Jihad’ has been reported by any central agencies. In fact, “the term ‘love jihad’ has not been defined under the extant laws”, Minister of State in the home ministry G. Kishan Reddy had informed in Parliament.