Addressing a packed rally at Temathani Pallishree ground in Sabang of West Midnapore district, Mr Banerjee foregrounded an alleged incident involving a young woman and her two-year-old child, claiming they were threatened by “BJP-backed elements”.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma on Friday alleged that central funds allocated to West Bengal have not been properly utilised, claiming that the state has failed to achieve its full development potential.
Though West Bengal CEO Monoj Agarwal said that the name of the voters’ cleared by the tribunals will be included in the voters’ list according to SC directive but officials responsible for conducting election expressed apprehensions regarding the feasibility of the process.
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) is focusing on development issues in the Champdany Assembly constituency, while accusing the BJP of pushing thousands of jute mill workers and their families into uncertainty over their livelihoods.
Dum Dum Assembly constituency is one of those seats where the Trinamul Congress is confident of its victory.
Addressing a public meeting in Dum Dum, Banerjee said, “We will support the Women’s Reservation Bill. But do not try to bring anything else along with it. We will not allow that.”
Coming down heavily on the BJP, Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee said the saffron party has converted the election, a festival of democracy, into a festival of atrocity.
The Income Tax department on Friday raided multiple premises including the residence of Trinamul Congress MLA Debasish Kumar as well as the homes and offices of two other leaders of the party, triggering political tension in the Assembly elections.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, welcoming the Supreme Court’s position on ensuring the right to vote of ‘excluded’ voters who are cleared by adjudication tribunals, on Friday hit out at the BJP over the issue.
As many as 345 candidates, or 23 per cent, of the 1,475 analysed in the first phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal have various criminal cases pending against them, according to data culled from candidate affidavits by an all-India based non-government organisation.
