Meanwhile, some officers of the elite National Investigation Agency (NIA) were allegedly heckled in Purba Medinipur district on Saturday while carrying out a probe in connection with a blast case.
West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Saturday condemned the alleged attack on the officials of the National Investigation Agency in Purba Medinipur district who were carrying out a probe in connection with a blast case.
In a meeting on Friday afternoon, Abhishek Banerjee, the All India General Secretary of Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Member of Parliament, along with 121 party officials, convened a meeting to devise strategy for the Lok Sabha elections.
All India Trinamool Congress criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the number of women candidates chosen for Lok Sabha elections alleging that 'women's representation is mere lip service' for the latter.
Former cricketer and TMC candidate from West Bengal's Berhampore Lok Sabha constituency, Yusuf Pathan, said that he was feeling good to enter into politics and he will now be able to solve people's problems and serve them.
Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who was renominated by the ruling TMC from the Asansol Lok Sabha seat, said on Friday he would try to ensure an even bigger margin of victory than what he recorded in the previous bypoll.
Speaking to ANI, Dilip Ghosh said, "The WB government has repeatedly lied and given false figures (regarding funding given by the Centre to the state government) to mislead the people. I am saying that today everything is in the public domain, including what the central government is doin
In a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Kunal Ghosh asked the Centre to issue a "white paper" to disclose the fund by the union government for the state.
"Parties like DMK in Tamil Nadu and TMC in West Bengal are the strongest parties but regional parties. In Punjab, in one period, Akali Dhal was the strongest but regional party. BJD in Odisha is a regional party. They (the BJP) feel they can throw regional parties one by one if the National
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday attacked the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal, saying it tried its best to protect the accused in the Sandeshkhali incidents that rocked the state and asserted that only Bharatiya Janata Party can stop atrocities against women