Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) At least, four BJP Lok Sabha members from West Bengal are keen to shift to Trinamool Congress immediately, claimed the state general secretary of the ruling party Kunal Ghosh on Tuesday. “However, since the Lok Sabha elections concluded less than a year back, we have asked … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay on Tuesday directed the assembly secretary to withhold circulation of house proceedings-related documents to BJP legislators. The move comes in response to repeated incidents of BJP MLAs tearing Assembly documents inside the House. The Speaker noted that similar instances in … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) Chaos erupted in the West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday as BJP legislators staged a walkout, protesting against Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay’s decision to withhold circulation of Assembly-related documents to them during the session. Tensions flared when the Speaker refused to admit an adjournment motion tabled by BJP … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari said on Tuesday that the BJP would approach the Supreme Court on the MLA defection issue and even make the state Assembly Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay a party in the matter. His remarks come a day … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) The West Bengal government will soon bring a Bill to the state Assembly to regulate the fee structure in different private schools in the state. This was informed by state Education Minister Bratya Basu on the second day of the budget session of the Assembly, here … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) A ten-member delegation of Trinamool Congress MPs, from both the Rajya Sabha and the Lok Sabha will be meeting the full Bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday afternoon on the issue of bogus voters in West Bengal. Incidentally, on Monday four-time Trinamool … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) The BJP’s tally in the West Bengal Assembly came down to 65 on Monday, with another party legislator joining the ruling Trinamool Congress during the day. BJP’s legislator from Haldia (SC) Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district, Tapasi Mondal was in Kolkata on Monday to attend … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court will this week hear a crucial public interest litigation (PIL) on the risk of foreign nationals participating as candidates in the polls in West Bengal. It is learnt that the division bench of Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice … Read more
Follow Us on Google News Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) The second phase of the budget session of the West Bengal Assembly will start from Monday without the Leader of Opposition (LoP), Suvendu Adhikari, in the House, as he has been suspended. Adhikari and three other BJP legislators were suspended for a month in the first … Read more