Paul said questioning Banerjee was “very much required”, but maintained that the probe must also extend to Hakim, alleging that the sanctioned building plan bore the former mayor’s signature.
While the state government has not yet officially disclosed the contents of the proposed Bill, sources indicate that it may draw from key provisions already implemented in Uttarakhand and considered by other BJP-ruled states.
Suvendu Adhikari claimed that the former Mayor had delegated excessive powers to Kalicharan, allowing him to function as a parallel authority.
Firhad Hakim who was the Kolkata Mayor when the plan was sanctioned has recently stepped down from the post after the West Bengal assembly elections.
The Kolkata Police have requested all land documents pertaining to the underconstruction warehouse at Taratala from the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, and the role of civic officials associated with the land deal will also be scrutinized.
A day after allowing the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) chairman Siddhartha Majumder and his other colleagues to leave office on Wednesday, the agitating jobless teachers are still confused with the WBSSC’s reluctance to make the list of ‘tainted’ candidates public through its official website.
Sunil Paswan (45), a head constable of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) was killed after some unknown miscreants fired at his head from close range at Domdaha – Dhangari area under Salanpur police station limits near the Bengal Jharkhand border late last night.
Senior Congress leader and five-time former party Lok Sabha member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, on Thursday, demanded the strongest possible action against Pakistan following the terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, saying that the Modi-led government should consider attacking Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee today expressed shock and anguish over the terror attack at Pahalgam in Kashmir at the state cabinet meeting held at the secretariat, Nabanna today.
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Union home minister Amit Shah, holding him directly responsible for what it called a colossal and unforgivable security failure in the wake of the terrorist attack at Baisaran meadow in Pahalgam, Jammu and Kashmir.
