Mamata Banerjee

Just a few minutes after the Chief Minister refuted the allegations at a press conference, Adhikari issued a Twitter message claiming that she made the call to Delhi from her landline. "For making the call to Delhi, you used a landline. I'd expose you in due time. Wait for my befitting reply tomorrow," Adhikari said in his Twitter message where he also used the term "Yeh Darr Mujhe Achha Laga (I like this feeling of fear)".

"Generally, I love people who love others. But since a case is pending at the Supreme Court relating to this issue, it would not be right on my part to comment on this issue at this moment. The matter is sensitive. All I can say is that we have to understand the pulse of the people in the matter," Mamata Banerjee said in response to a question from a media person.

"I heard that on Tuesday one upstart individual claimed at a public meeting that I had called up their supreme leader Amit Shah four times after the EC withdrew Trinamool Congress's national party status. If they can prove this I will resign as the Chief Minister. But if they cannot prove these allegations, will they rub their noses on the ground?" she said while interacting with media persons at the state Secretariat.

"I am shocked by the brazen anarchy and total collapse of law & order in Uttar Pradesh. It is shameful that perpetrators are now taking the law in their own hands, unfazed by the police and media presence. Such unlawful acts have no place in our constitutional democracy," the chief minister Mamata Banerjee said in a Twitter message on Sunday afternoon.

The members of the fact-finding team were prevented from reaching the troubled pockets in the last couple of days. "The police have done the right thing by preventing them from reaching the troubled pockets. They actually came to re-instigate tension in those localities," Banerjee told media persons.

The state government did not take the decision of the deployment of central armed forces voluntarily, rather it was prompted by a clear-cut order from a division bench of the Calcutta High Court asking the administration to do so. The court gave the order amid clashes over the Ram Navami processions in three districts, which.

"I am asking my administration as well as the common people to remain alert on April 6. We all respect Bajrangbali, and we do not want any tension or violence in his name. The youth should come forward in preventing any kind of tension," the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said while addressing an administrative review meeting at Khejuri in East Midnapore district.

Sources from the state government said that investigation will be conducted by the special operation group (SOG) under CID and the investigation team will be headed by an officer in the rank of deputy inspector general (DIG) of police. West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose late Friday evening issued a strongly worded statement.

Not surprisingly, the clashes in Howrah district over a Ram Navami procession on Thursday, which continued till Friday afternoon, have evoked similar reeponse. Interestingly, the statements made by the political leaders are often quite self-contradictory as is evident this time as well. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while admitting.

Speaking on the second day of her two-day sit-in agitation here on Thursday, Banerjee said she had expected that her two-day agitation would evoke some response from the Central government on this count. I waited till Thursday. I thought that at least out of courtesy, I will receive a phone call from the Union government with.