Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) Assam unit on Sunday staged a demonstration and burnt the effigy of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to protest against the Sandeshkhali incident.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday announced 42 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, fielding expelled Lok Sabha member Mahua Moitra from Krishnanagar.
Calling the Bharatiya Janata Party "anti-Bengal and anti-Bengali," Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose on Sunday claimed the BJP is the party of "outsiders and zamindars" adding that TMC will not allow the party to come into Bengal and loot people's votes.
Amid the anticipation around the launch of passenger services on the East-West and other two sections of the city's tube services, P Uday Kumar Reddy, general manager of Kolkata Metro Railway, on Sunday said commercial services on the new sections will begin on March 15.
Suspended Trinamool Congress strongman and Sandeshkhali-accused, Sheikh Shahjahan, was brought out of the CBI office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata on Sunday.
With 33 points from 16 games (after 10 wins, three draws and three losses), the Mariners can equal league leaders Mumbai City FC (36) with a win, whilst having a game in hand compared to the Islanders who have played 18 games so far as compared to the 16 of the Habas-coached team.
PM Modi also slammed the Congress and said that it would have taken the grand old party 20 years to accomplish what his government did in the last five years for the development of the northeastern states.
"North Bengal is PM Modi's bastion. Here, people respect him, love him and consider him to be their own. North Bengal has been in PM Modi's favour since 2014. In 2019, his vote percentage increased and in 2021, his support base in North Bengal was intact," Adhikari said speaking to reporters