Mamata Banerjee
NIA fuelling communal tension in state in some cases: Mamata Banerjee
Incidentally, on Thursday morning only, state Urban Development and Municipal Affairs minister and Kolkata Municipal Corporation Mayor, Firhad Hakim alleged that NIA is entering the scene in West Bengal even on the issue of burning firecrackers in any locality on the occasion of any festival.
'Protecting democracy doesn't mean guarding corruption', Opposition reminds CM Mamata
Reacting to Mamata Banerjee's remark that unnecessary harassment of people has increased manifold these days, CPI(M) Rajya Sabha member and senior advocate in the Calcutta High Court, Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharya, said that he couldn't really understand what the Chief Minister wanted to say.
Current CJI has been able to restore public confidence in judicial system: Mamata
CJI U.U. Lalit, Calcutta High Court's Chief Justice Prakash Srivastava and the Chief Justice of Bangladesh Hasan Foez Siddique were present on the occasion. Her speech had a latent apprehension about the threats faced by the federal system of democracy in India. "Social prestige is everything for us. We lose everything if we lose our social prestige. So, I will request all associated with the judicial system to ensure the federal system of democracy prevails," said the chief minister.
Mamata Banerjee's statements on Singur reveal that she is jittery: CPI(M)
According to her, she had only fought for unwilling farmers who were forced to part with land for the factory. "It was the CPI(M) that was responsible for the mess. We just wanted land acquired from unwilling farmers to be returned. There were other plots available nearby that could have been used for the factory," she has been saying.
Mamata Banerjee calls Sourav Ganguly victim of political vendetta
"I have a few questions. For whom a position was kept in reserve in the ICC? For whose self-interest Sourav was made the victim? Why did he become a victim of political vendetta? Will not the Indian cricket suffer for this? This is a shameful political vendetta," Mamata Banerjee said while interacting with mediapersons here on Thursday.
Opposition hits out at CM Mamata for her Tata-Singur remark
"She (Banerjee) has been making false statements for the last 11 years. She promised that she would return the Singur land to the farmers after reviving them in original fertile conditions. Yes, she has returned the land but farming is no longer possible there," Locket Chatterjee said.
Not me, but CPI-M drove Tata Motors out of Singur: Mamata Banerjee
Fourteen years after that development -- often termed as the biggest blow to West Bengal's image before national and international investors -- Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that it wasn't her or the Trinamool, but then ruling CPI(M) which was responsible for driving away the Tata project from West Bengal.
Make Sourav Ganguly Bengal's brand ambassador replacing SRK: Suvendu Adhikari to CM Mamata
Adhikari's advice on this count comes just within an hour after the Chief Minister on Monday lambasted Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over the "unceremonious" exit of Ganguly as its President, saying that she would talk to Prime Minister Narendra Modi so that Ganguly can contest for the chairmanship of International Cricket Council (ICC) as the Indian representative.
Mamata Banerjee slams BCCI over Sourav Ganguly's exit
"Injustice has been meted out to him, while Jay Shah, Union Home Minister Amit Shah's son, will continue as the board secretary. I have no objection to that. But Sourav Ganguly too should have the opportunity to continue as the BCCI president," CM Mamata told media persons at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport before leaving for north Bengal on an official visit.
Amit Shah calls Chintan Shivir of all Home Ministers, invites Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her Rajasthan counterpart Ashok Gehlot have also been invited to join the meeting. Banerjee and Gehlot also hold the Home portfolio in their respective states. However, Banerjee's presence in the meeting has not been confirmed yet, sources said.
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