Tag: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

Kolkata: Expressing concern over monetary provisions to meet the Interim Budget proposals, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday described the document as a “farce” and “manifesto of the BJP”. “The budget proposals will be not implemented… New government will present the budget. This government’s expiry date will be over in one month. What […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday accused the BJP-led Central government of deliberately not releasing funds for various Central schemes and said Rs 2,500 crore under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) scheme was due to the state. Accusing the Centre of a “step-motherly attitude” towards the state, Banerjee […]

Kolkata: Slamming the Central government on Assam’s draft NRC which left out over 40 lakh people, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused the Narendra Modi-led government of doing “vote politics”. The first complete draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), comprising names of 2,89,83,677 people of Assam, was published on Monday […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday expressed joy over Union Minister Arun Jaitley’s homecoming after his kidney transplant and wished him a speedy recovery. “@arunjaitleyji. Glad that you have returned home today after the surgery. Wish you a speedy and complete recovery,” she said in a tweet. Jaitley returned home on Monday […]

Sreerampur (West Bengal): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday claimed that 40 MLAs of West Bengals ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) were in “touch” with him and would desert Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee whose party hit back by filing a “horse trading” complaint with the Election Commission against him. “When the lotus blooms all over Bengal […]

Kolkata: Walking free after remaining in jail for five days for sharing a meme on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on social media, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker Priyanka Sharma said on Wednesday that she was “tortured” in jail and that she would not tender an apology for sharing the meme. Sharma, who was picked […]

New Delhi: Resident doctors of AIIMS and Safdarjung Hospital, who boycotted work on Friday in protest against attacks on their colleagues in Kolkata, have now given a 48-hour ultimatum to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to meet the demands of the state’s agitating doctors, failing which they said they would go on indefinite strike. […]

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday drew flak from the state’s opposition Left parties and the Congress for her visit to Bhubaneswar for the Eastern Regional Council Meeting attended by Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and […]