West Bengal Assembly passes motion condemning Nupur Sharma remarks
India | June 20, 2022 15:27 ISTThe motion was an unscheduled one, and it did not name anyone as the matter is sub judice.
The motion was an unscheduled one, and it did not name anyone as the matter is sub judice.
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh clarified late in the day that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself had called up the Governor to clarify the typing error.
Nikhil Ranjan Dey on Monday said the top leadership had erred by inducting TMC leaders into the BJP before the assembly polls in West Bengal.
BJP MLA Ambika Roy moved the PIL before the high court seeking removal of Mukul Roy from the post of PAC chairman of the West Bengal assembly, making the Speaker of the House one of the respondents in the petition.
Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday said the BJP lost because of several leaders' overconfidence that the party would get over 170 seats.
Roy, officially a BJP MLA from Krishnanagar Uttar, joined the TMC last month. He, however, did not resign as a legislator, despite being asked to do so by the saffron party.
The resignation of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat on grounds that he could not get elected to the State Assembly within the six month deadline has put the spotlight on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and pending by-polls to certain Assembly seats in the State.
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday reserved the judgment on a plea of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee challenging Nandigram election results.
The BJP on Thursday decided to hold demonstrations across West Bengal next week in protest against the ruling "Trinamool Congress' violence" faced by its activists since assembly poll results were out on May 2, party sources said.
Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday slammed the CM Mamata Banerjee-led state government over the issue of alleged post-poll violence.
Upon winning, CM Mamata Banerjee had made it clear that vaccination and controlling the spread of Coronavirus will be her government's priority
A team instituted by the Union Home Ministry on Friday visited West Bengal's Birbhum district to assess the post-poll violence situation in the state.
West Bengal government has called a meeting on May 10 with stakeholders of industry, factories, tea gardens to ensure protection of workers from the pandemic
At least 143 MLAs -- most of them from the assembly constituencies of Kolkata, North- and South-24 Parganas, Purba and Paschim Medinipur, Howrah, Hooghly and Jhargram -- are set to take oath on Thursday
BJP chief JP Nadda, on May 05, addressed the party leader in Kolkata and asked the leaders to take oath that they will carry out our responsibility, by happily accepting the mandate, and play the important role of Opposition.
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday claimed the BJP's ''arrogance" was among the reasons for its defeat in the West Bengal Assembly polls.
Bengal Violence: BJP has claimed that 9 workers have lost their lives in widespread violence unleashed by TMC in the state.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will meet West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at 7 pm today, possibly stake claim and set the ball rolling for government formation. This will be Banerjee’s third consecutive term.
The BJP on Sunday alleged that one of its party offices in Hooghly district was set on fire, and some of its leaders, including Suvendu Adhikari, were heckled by TMC activists in other parts of the state after the poll results showed that the Mamata Banerjee camp was setto retain power in Bengal.
Mamata Banerjee steamrolled the BJP election war machine as she powered the TMC to a two-thirds majority in the assembly elections and secured a third straight term in office in West Bengal, the longest-standing opposition fortress in the country.
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