Centre should have shown Chidamabaram some respect : Mamata Banerjee
India | September 06, 2019 17:03 ISTThe central government should have shown him "minimum respect", she told the state assembly here.
The central government should have shown him "minimum respect", she told the state assembly here.
The crop insurance scheme would be "free of cost for the farmers" as the government would pay the entire premium and the insurable crops are Aman and Aus paddy, jute and maize.
However, senior TMC leader and Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Giasuddin Mollah dismissed the allegations as baseless and defended the decision by saying the ongoing project will benefit all students.
While Banerjee termed the over one-and-a-half-hour long meeting as "positive and productive" and urged the doctors' to immediately end the strike for the sake of the ailing patients, the young doctors said they were eager to get back to work, calling the deliberations a "move towards the positive direction".
Three chief ministers, including Mamata Banerjee and K Chandrashekhar Rao, gave it a miss to the fifth meeting of the Governing Council of Niti Aayog chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday.
The doctors, who struck work for the fourth day Friday, refused to meet the chief minister, demanding an unconditional apology from her.
Hours after over 100 doctors in West Bengal resigned on June 14, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she 'won't let West Bengal become Gujarat’.
As trends showed a saffron surge in Bengal, the residence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in South Kolkata's Kalighat wore a deserted look on Thursday with just a handful of Trinamool Congress supporters gathered outside.
A senior party leader said, "We do not have to worry about these exit poll reports, which in most cases do not match."
A gritty fight between state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and Manas Bhunia, a seasoned politician who jumped ship form the Congress to the Trinamool Congress in 2016, and a father-son duo contesting from two neighbouring seats laden with the memories of 'Quit India' movement also headline the polling scene on the morrow.
Responding to Banerjee's letter, the poll panel said Saturday that "It is the ECI and the governments of states/UTs who are jointly responsible to electors of the largest democracy and are bound to act strictly in the letter and spirit of the respective roles set forth by the founding fathers of the Constitution."
The TMC chief's strong reaction comes after BJP president Amit Shah on Tuesday alleged Banerjee's paintings were bought by chit fund owners for crores of rupees.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra claimed the state's ruling Trinamool Congress had targeted vehicles carrying BJP workers after Shah's rally.
The money will be paid to the family in death case of any peasants aged between 18-60 years under 'Krishi Krishak Bandhu' scheme, which will come into effect on January 1.
Rao will meet Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneswar on December 23 and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata the next day, a release from his office said.
The Trinamool Congress chief, who is currently in Delhi and holding meetings with opposition leaders, also said the trends indicated the outcome of the 2019 general elections.
The day-long “Brahmin and Purohit Sammelan” was held by the TMC’s Birbhum district president, Anubrata Mondal, who is a strong critic of the BJP and its policies.
Celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol and Kamal Haasan inaugurated 23rd KIFF with Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
Acting Chief Justice of Calcutta HC tells state government, 'there is a difference between regulation and prohibition.'
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