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Home / West-bengal / PM promises Rs 1,000cr as Yaas relief; Rs 500cr for Odisha, rest for Bengal & Jharkhand Mamata skips cyclone review meet with Modi PM promises Rs 1,000cr as Yaas relief; Rs 500cr for Odisha, rest for Bengal & Jharkhand Mamata skips review meeting with PM, asks for Rs 20,000 cr for redevelopment of Digha, Sunderbans; Centre to send inter-ministrial team
Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee met Prime Minister Narendra Modi briefly at Kalaikunda Air Base in West Midnapore on Thursday to hand over a preliminary report of the damages caused by Cyclone Yaas and sought a package of Rs 20,000 crore for the redevelopment of worst-affected areas.
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KOLKATA: The parliamentary board of BJP, likely to meet on Monday, may select the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly by evening.
On Saturday, the parliamentary board appointed two observers, Ravi Shankar Prasad and Bhupendra Yadav, for electing the leader of the opposition. Both Prasad and Yadav will hold meetings with the legislators and ask for their individual preferences. “After they voice their preferences, the observers will convey that to the parliamentary board, which will take the decision,” said a senior leader.
A few names, including national vice-president Mukul Roy, Suvendu Adhikari and Manoj Tigga, are doing the rounds. “The name of Santipur MLA Jagannath Sarkar can also be considered,” said a Bengal leader.
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KOLKATA: The BJP’s performance in the West Bengal Assembly elections shows that the saffron camp trailed in 10 Lok Sabha seats out of 18 which it had won in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
Though the party’s tally in the West Bengal state Assembly has gone up to 77 from 3, the performance in the 10 Lok Sabha constituencies out of 42 in Bengal is said to be a debacle that may prove costly in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
The two Union ministers Debasree Chowdhury and Babul Supriyo failed to secure the lead in their constituencies of Raiganj and Asansol respectively. The party bagged seven Lok Sabha seats out of eight in north Bengal in 2019, but it was ahead of the TMC in four seats only in the just-concluded Assembly elections.
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