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.
"This is not the time for politics... Being a CM, Mamata Banerjee claiming that she has introduced the anti-collision device is absolutely ridiculous...," Majumdar said speaking to ANI on Monday.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose met the injured of the Kanchenjunga Express train accident at North Bengal Medical College and said that all stakeholders should stand together in the hour of crisis.
"I started so many things, but they are only doing publicity of Vande Bharat trains. Where is Duronto Express? After the Rajdhani Express, Duronto was the fastest train. During the time of elections they inaugurate Vande Bharats. This does not work. Today, the entire Railway Department is
"They (BJP) have so many talking points and beautification of words. It is just like fashion. But they don't take care of passengers' amenities," the Chief Minister said speaking to reporters at the Kolkata Airport before heading off for Siliguri.
Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has left for Darjeeling to visit the site of a train accident involving the Kanchenjunga Express train and a goods train that killed at least five passengers and left over 20 people injured.
A train accident happened in in Phansidewa area of Darjeeling district on Monday, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. She said that Kanchenjunga Express had reportedly been hit by a goods train.
"Yesterday, I gave permission to the victims of violence in the field who came from various parts of Bengal to meet me in the Raj Bhavan and air their grievances. I was shocked to find that for one reason or another, they were all prevented from exercising their democratic rights," Govern
West Bengal's Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, was stopped by the police on Thursday from entering the Raj Bhavan to meet West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose with alleged victims of post-poll violence.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday announced the release of Rs 2900 crore in financial assistance to 1.05 crore farmers of the state.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asserted that "Yogyashree" scheme designed to offer free-of-cost training to SC/ST students of the state for admission in engineering and medical courses would now be extended to boys and girls of Minority, OBC and General categories also.