Forest rights belong to tribals and no one can seize tribal land, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday. Laws have been enforced to protect their rights. Mamata Banerjee emphasised on resolution of pending land deeds for tribals and restoration of raiyati rights.
KOLKATA: ED officials knocked on the doors of govt officials and office-bearers of zila parishads and panchayats in four districts of Bengal on Tuesda.
A death certificate has been issued in the name of the son of the deceased by Midnapore Medical College and Hospital. The family has applied for correction.
Basu, who used to be a district mentor group member in TMC, named seven district office-bearers and at least one MP, East Burdwan’s Sunil Mandal, as being BJP-bound. Mandal has yet to confirm or deny that he will join BJP at Shah’s rally.
TMC isn’t the only dissent-ridden party BJP seems to be gaining from. CPM’s Tapasi Mondal, the MLA from East Midnapore’s Haldia, is said to be among those ready to cross over.
The desertion bug bit Trinamool’s Birbhum bastion as well, where former Bolpur Municipality councillors Arup Roy and Shelley Roy resigned on Friday, sparking speculation that they might be joining BJP when Shah visits the district on Sunday.
File photo of Suvendu Adhikari (R) with Mamata Banerjee. (PTI)
KOLKATA: Former Bengal minister and estranged Mamata Banerjee aide Suvendu Adhikari quit Trinamool Congress on Thursday, taking the third and possibly final step in his journey to BJP and opening the floodgates for a bunch of resignations by his loyalists and at least one disgruntled senior colleague MLA Jitendra Tiwari from West Burdwan.
By evening, the rumblings of discontent had become a roar of rebellion that cleaved Trinamool-run civic bodies in West Burdwan and Hooghly, besides jolting the party organisation in Adhikari’s home turf East Midnapore and Jangalmahal. In Hooghly, Dankuni municipality vicechairman Debashis Mukherjee gave up his civic post, announcing he was with “Dada”.