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KOLKATA: The row between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Visva-Bharati authorities intensified on Monday after she announced that the state government would take back the road which was handed over to the central university authorities four years ago.
Mamata said the decision was taken after the ashramiks those who were once attached to the institution and started living in Santiniketan permanently complained that they were not allowed to use the road and therefore can t take their vehicles to their land.
The state government’s decision is said to be in the backdrop of the university’s centenary ceremony where the Prime Minister addressed through video conference and Mamata was not invited. The Bengal CM expressed her displeasure on the day of the event at the state secretariat.
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KOLKATA: Intraparty discontent in BJP over TMC leaders joining the saffron party has surfaced as the old foot-soldiers and a section of functionaries are against the inclusion of the faces who used to be their arch rivals just a few days ago.
Clashes between the old party workers and newcomers took place in West Midnapore and Durgapur in the past 24 hours. Posters opposing the decision of welcoming TMC defectors were seen in many places.
A ruckus broke out in Durgapur on Tuesday where TMC supporters were scheduled to join the BJP in presence of the party state president Dilip Ghosh. The two groups attacked each other with plastic chairs and engaged in a fisticuff. A similar incident had also taken place in Narayangarh (West Midnapore).
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KOLKATA: Four ministers of the West Bengal government skipped cabinet meeting convened by CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday at the state secretariat. Though three of them cited reasons seemed to be genuine, the absence of Rajib Banerjee, the minister for forest affairs, was said to be politically significant as there are strong speculations that he might quit the TMC.
The three others in Mamata’s cabinet, who did not turn up to attend the meeting, were Rabindranath Ghosh, the north Bengal development minister, tourism minister Gautam Deb and Chandranath Sinha, the minister for fisheries.
Sources in the TMC said Ghosh was tested positive for Covid-19 recently and presently, he is not taking part in any administrative activities. He said besides his health issue, he decided not to leave his constituency because Mamata’s latest initiative ‘Duare Sarkar’ (government at your door-step) is being carried out there.
Bengal s CM will be son of the soil : Amit Shah slams Mamata s outsider jibe
This comes as a reply to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s non-stop attack on the BJP’s central leadership labelling them as outsiders,
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses during an election rally ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls 2021. (Photo | PTI)
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KOLKATA: Union Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday made it clear that West Bengal’s Chief Minister will be someone from its own soil, not an outsider.
This comes as a reply to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s non-stop attack on the BJP’s central leadership labelling them as outsiders,
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KOLKATA: Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla held a meeting with Chief Secretary Alapan Bandopadhyay and Director General of Police Virendra on Friday evening through a video conference at the state secretariat.
Bhalla gave a nod to discuss the state’s law and order situation through video conference after Banopadhyay, in response to the Union Home secretary’s second letter asking the two officials to visit Delhi on Friday, said he would not be able to fly due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Bandopadhyay had requested Bhalla to hold the meeting through video conference, a practice followed on several occasions during the Covid-19 pandemic.