Former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly was named the Brand Ambassador of West Bengal by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on the opening day of the seventh global business summit in Kolkata on Tuesday.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Dilip Ghosh on Monday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remark suggesting that the Prime Minister should say 'Adani Ji Ki Jai' instead of 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai', and said, "Congress will have to learn to say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai'... Otherwise, their downfal
"You make prasadi after your puja, which you give to us. We wait eagerly for your thekuas...We worship sun god everyday. We live close to Ma Ganga and love her. Wish you all a happy and prosperous Chhat puja for your society," Mamata said while attending Chhath Puja at Takhta ghat on Sunday.
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party president Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday hit out at Mamata Banerjee saying that India is incomplete without the saffron colour and CM Banerjee is just doing vote bank and appeasement politics.
"We work and they advertise. If they had given the money spent on advertisements to labourers, then there would not have been the MGNREGA protests. We have never seen anything like this," the Chief Minister said.
BJP MLA and the party's general secretary in West Bengal, Agnimitra Paul, on Tuesday hit out at the ruling Trinamool Congress, saying that law and order are lying in ruins and 'criminals' are running the state.
Mamata was seen handing over an offering to the priest, which was in turn placed before the deity. She was then seen walking out of the well-decorated puja 'ghar' as the puja continued.
He also took a jibe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and said that she is afraid that all the corrupt members of the TMC will have to go to jail.
The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal came down heavily on the BJP over a letter from the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, threatening to halt the grant under the Centre's National Health Mission (NHM) to the state government until it fulfils all the conditions for the sam
Several leaders of the Opposition parties have slammed the Central Government over the ED's summon to Kejriwal, alleging 'misuse' of the agencies to silence them.