The ground was decorated with symbols deeply associated with the state, ranging from Kolkata’s yellow taxis, hand-pulled rickshaws to images of Dakshineswar Temple and Belur Math.
PM Modi said that Syama Prasad Mookerjee emerged as the key figure who resisted such efforts and launched a movement for a separate homeland for Bengali Hindus within India.
The bifurcation of Bengal and the subsequent creation of West Bengal owes its origin to the leadership of Shyama Prasad Mookherjee who championed the idea of a ‘Hindu homeland’ within the Indian union.
The date holds historical significance as it was on June 20, 1947, that the Bengal Provincial Legislative Assembly passed the resolution for West Bengal to remain a part of India.
The restrictions will not be applicable for vehicles carrying LPG Cylinders, CNG, petroleum, oil, lubricants and oxygen, vegetable, medicine, fruits, fish and milk.
Senior Trinamul MLA from Asansol Moloy Ghatak has been divested of the law and justice department. He would however continue as the minister of labour in the ruling dispensation.
The recent decision of the Kerala government to raise daily wages of plantation workers to Rs 546 from 1 April, has once again brought the issue of low wages in the tea gardens of north Bengal into sharp focus, with workers’ organisations demanding immediate enforcement of statutory minimum wages in the region.
Labour minister Moloy Ghatak inaugurated the first state-owned stray dog shelter in the Bagbandi area of Kalipahari, on the outskirts of Asansol in West Burdwan district.
Witnesses said the speeding car, which carried a police board on its front, lost control at a sharp turn, hit a divider, and then rammed into the roadside fruit shop where Barnawala was buying fruit with his grandson.
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi, today approved two projects of the ministry of railways, including Sainthia – Pakur 4th line and Santragachi – Kharagpur 4th line.
