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3 ex-TMC MPs join BJP; to contest Rajya Sabha bypolls from seats they vacated

3 ex-TMC MPs join BJP; to contest Rajya Sabha bypolls from seats they vacated

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Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik, the three Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders who resigned from the Rajya Sabha in June, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata on Thursday. The BJP said all three former TMC leaders will contest the July 24 bypolls to the Upper House seats vacated by them. State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya welcomed them to the party at its West Bengal headquarters in Salt Lake State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya welcomed them to the party at its West Bengal headquarters in Salt Lake and stopped short of confirming whether they would be the party’s candidates. “They are officially joining the party led by Narendra Modi who has steadily taken the nation forward. Right now the only identity of these three persons is that they are BJP workers,” he said. Also Read | Former TMC Rajya Sabha MPs Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Prakash Chik Baraik join BJP in Kolkata Asked about his earlier assertion that no TMC leader would be inducted into the BJP, Bhattacharya said, “This …

After flying as weapons, eggs now land at centre of Bengal’s mid-day meal row

After flying as weapons, eggs now land at centre of Bengal’s mid-day meal row

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West Bengal’s new BJP regime decided this week to drop eggs from the school mid-day meal menu in Kolkata, at a time when eggs have been making headlines ever since Mamata Banerjee’s TMC rule ended after 15 years last month. Members of the Indian National Trade Union Congress (INTUC) hold eggs during a protest at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation head office. (Aloke Dey/ANI Photo) Eggs have been thrown at TMC leaders across the state, and the party’s deepening succession battle has become entangled with the two stories around eggs or “non-vegetarian” food in general. During the recent election campaign too, dietary habits became a major political battleground when the then CM Mamata Banerjee warned voters that the BJP would ban fish, meat, and eggs if they came to power, pointing to similar restrictions in other BJP-ruled states. Understanding the deep cultural significance of non-vegetarian food in Bengal, Union home minister Amit Shah dismissed her claims as rumours, explicitly promising that the consumption of fish and eggs would not be stopped. Senior BJP leader Anurag Thakur …

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s first visit to Sandeshkhali today after protests | Latest News India

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s first visit to Sandeshkhali today after protests | Latest News India

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West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will visit Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district on Monday, December 30, to chair a public distribution programme. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference, at Nabanna in Kolkata on Thursday. (ANI Photo) This will mark her first visit to the island, situated on the Sundarbans border, since widespread protests earlier this year over alleged land-grabbing and sexual harassment by local TMC leaders. Banerjee had said on Thursday that she would visit Sandeshkhali on December 30 to chair a public distribution programme. She mentioned that people had asked her before the elections if she would visit Sandeshkhali, to which she had replied that she would go later. The chief minister spoke to reporters at the state secretariat Nabanna. “We have completed several pending programmes under ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’, ‘Banglar Bari’ and other schemes. Around 20,000 beneficiaries of the area will be benefitted from various state-run schemes. I hope to hand over certificates of various schemes to around 100 people from the stage,” the …

ED raids premises of TMC leaders including West Bengal minister Tapas Roy | Kolkata

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday began raids at the houses of West Bengal minister Tapas Roy and at least two other ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders in connection with an alleged recruitment scam in civic bodies. The searches in Kolkata and North 24 Parganas started simultaneously. (HT PHOTO) The searches in Kolkata and North 24 Parganas started simultaneously around 6:30am a week after two teams of the federal agency were attacked when they tried to search the houses of two block-level TMC functionaries. Wrap up the year gone by & gear up for 2024 with HT! Click here The fresh raids pertain to the case Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed in April 2023 on a Calcutta high court order. The ED has cited a preliminary investigation and said it suggests the alleged recruitment scam in civic bodies may be to the tune of ₹200 crore. It was probing a money laundering trail in a school recruitment case when it stumbled upon alleged irregularities in municipalities. Source link