The team including former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and party MPs Biplab Kumar Deb, Brij Lal, and Kavita Patidar had arrived in the State on Sunday.
The accident took place in the Phansidewa area of Darjeeling district on Monday. At least eight people died and over 25 people were injured in the accident.
Kanchanjungha Express, which was hit by a goods train and claimed eight lives, arrived at its destination station, Sealdah in Kolkata, in the early hours of Tuesday after the completion of restoration work.
Ravi Shankar Prasad, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and a member of the four-member committee to probe the post-poll violence in West Bengal, lashed out at the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government on Monday alleging that an SC woman was raped by a TMC worker, and no FIR was lodged a
Hitting back at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for doing "politics" over the Kanchenjunga express accident, Union Minister Ramdas Athawale said that the Bengal CM should refrain from politicizing the matter.
Expressing grief over the Kanchenjunga express, Union Minister and West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Monday said that he will visit the injured people in the hospital.
"The Central Election Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party has given its approval to the following names for the upcoming assembly by-elections to be held in the states of Punjab and West Bengal," a press release from the central office of the BJP said.
"The post-election violence, the violence before the election, and violence during the election are common in West Bengal. The way violence was prevalent during Communist rule the same situation prevails now under TMC rule. I had been there many times during elections, I had visited many pla
Following the incidents of violence from several pockets of West Bengal reported after the declaration of Lok Sabha 2024 results, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha lashed out at the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in the state, claiming that the latter has created an "atmosphere o
Newly elected Member of Parliament and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Misa Bharti on Monday offered her condolences for those who lost their lives in a tragic rail mishap and prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured.