Kolkata, May 8: Muslims in Bengal have largely exercised their franchise in favour of the TMC, putting to rest all speculations over their voting pattern, as results showed that the AIMIM and newly floated ISF have failed to curry favour with members of the community.
KOLKATA: Learn how to accept the people s mandate and allow us to work on Covid now , West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told the Centre and BJP on Thursday, alleging that central ministers were coming to Bengal to engineer communal riots. We do not want to quarrel with you now, Banerjee said. We were sworn in at 10.45 am on Wednesday, the first stern letter from the Centre reached us at 7 pm the same evening and a central team arrived on Thursday morning. Did central teams ever come to ask about oxygen and vaccine shortage? We wish the Centre was similarly proactive when Hathras (gang rape incident) happened and riots took place in Delhi or Uttar Pradesh, she added.
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NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the Centre over sending a team to probe post-poll violence in the state and said it s not even 24 hours of the new government and they are sending letters and teams.
Addressing a press conference, the chief minister also announced a compensation of Rs 2 lakh to families of all those killed in post-poll violence. Under law and order by Election Commission, 16 were killed half of whom are from TMC and half from BJP, one was from Sanjukta Morcha, Mamata Banerjee said.
The TMC supremo further claimed that the central ministers were inciting violence in West Bengal.
KOLKATA: Learn how to accept the people s mandate and allow us to work on Covid now , West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee told the Centre and BJP on Thursday, alleging that central ministers were coming to Bengal to engineer communal riots. We do not want to quarrel with you now, Banerjee said. We were sworn in at 10.45 am on Wednesday, the first stern letter from the Centre reached us at 7 pm the same evening and a central team arrived on Thursday morning. Did central teams ever come to ask about oxygen and vaccine shortage? We wish the Centre was similarly proactive when Hathras (gang rape incident) happened and riots took place in Delhi or Uttar Pradesh, she added.
Governor urges CM to take all steps to restore the rule of law and ensure that relief reaches those who have been affected, particularly women and children