Rajib Banerjee, former Trinamool Congress leaders join BJP in presence of Amit Shah
MLAs Baishali Dalmiya and Prabir Ghoshal, former Howrah Mayor Rathin Chakraborty and Bengali actor Rudraneel Ghosh also joined BJP. Former TMC leaders Rajib Banerjee, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborti and Rudranil Ghosh joined the BJP in New Delhi on Saturday (January 30). (Image tweeted by @AmitShah)
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Updated: Jan 30, 2021, 11:58 PM IST
Former West Bengal Minister Rajib Banerjee, who had resigned from Trinamool Congress, joined BJP along with two other MLAs in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. MLAs Baishali Dalmiya and Prabir Ghoshal, former Howrah Mayor Rathin Chakraborty and Bengali actor Rudraneel Ghosh also joined BJP at the residence of Union Home Minister.
Time to fulfill your promise of restoring statehood to erstwhile J&K State:.
Time to fulfill your promise of restoring statehood to erstwhile J&K State: Altaf Bukhari to PM Modi, HM Amit Shah
JAMMU: Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari today urged the Prime Minister Narendera Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to fulfill the promise of granting statehood status to erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir stating that the Government of India should also announce an “unemployment package for the swelling number of unemployed youth of UT.
Bukhari also said that administration in J&K is defunct and the Srinagar-Jammu highway blockade has triggered a serious crisis which needs to be investigated and the contractors who played with the mountains for constructing a four-lane highway, need to be booked.
SRINAGAR: Apni Party president Altaf Bukhari today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to fulfill the promise of granting statehood status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir stating that the Government of India should also announce an “unemployment package for the swelling number of unemployed youth of UT.
Bukhari also said that administration in J&K is defunct and the Srinagar-Jammu highway blockade has triggered a serious crisis which needs to be investigated and the contractors who played with the mountains for constructing a four-lane highway, need to be booked.
Addressing a press conference in Jammu, Bukhari said that Apni Party got 5.5 vote share in the recently concluded DDC polls adding that the Apni Party re-started politics after the August 5, 2019 decision of 2019. “We met PM Modiji, Home Minister Amit Shahji and discussed the 17 point agenda. Today, we urge the PM and the HM to fulfill the promise they made on the floor of the hou
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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference in Kolkata, Jan. 4 (ANI) West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is not known to mince words when it comes to her political opponents. She has in the past called Prime Minister Narendra Modi ‘danga (riots) babu’ (back in May 2014) and Amit Shah ‘Mota Bhai’ (Gujarati for ‘big brother’). But in late December she sprang a surprise when she gave a rebuttal to Shah’s statement (on December 20) alleging Bengal’s dismal development indices. Dismissing Shah s allegations point by point, she cited official statistics to say that the home minister owed her a treat of dhokla. “Amit Shahji owes me a treat. I love dhokla and other Gujarati food, she said.
Their graph on violence has been steadily rising since then. No chargesheets are filed, no FIRs are written. It is being done as part of a policy, at the behest of Mamata Banerjee. Killing people and terrifying masses are the only job they are doing in the state. Their goondas are at work. They are after us, says Ghosh.