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.
After a 40-hour siege at Acharya Sadan, West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC) headquarters at Salt Lake, a section of protesting jobless teachers on Wednesday morning allowed Siddhartha Majumder, chairman of the WBSSC, and its other employees to leave.
The ongoing unrest and violent activities in certain parts of Bengal have shaken the self-confidence, trust, and sense of safety among ordinary people.
The Asansol district committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today announced the names of the party in-charges for each Assembly segment in the West Burdwan district.
The protestors have been continuing their agitations in front of the Acharya Bhawan for more than 30 hours since Monday demanding the WBSSC to release the list of qualified and ineligible candidates in the panel of 2016 when the recruitment tests for the posts of assistant teachers, non-teaching group C and D were held by the commission.
The stalemate over the issue of publishing of the segregated list continued even after the meeting between the WBSSC chairman and six-member representatives of the agitating teachers at the commission’s office.
