The fresh round of security reduction has affected multiple prominent names within the Trinamool Congress, including Rajya Sabha member Rajeev Kumar, senior party leader Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, MLA Kunal Ghosh, Chandrima Bhattacharya, Aroop Biswas and Subrata Bakshi.
Banerjee accused the BJP of branding Bengali-speaking people as infiltrators while claiming the party itself was the “biggest infiltrator” during elections.
TMC supremo alleged that BJP workers were submitting large numbers of Form 6 applications, used for new voter registration, to allegedly include “outsiders” in the state’s electoral rolls.
In a significant move, the party has dropped the sitting MLA Neeraj Zimba, a two-time winner from Darjeeling who had originally been elected on a BJP ticket belonging to the GNLF.
The BJP has announced the list of its 195 candidates in the first list published on Saturday evening, which included the high profile Asansol Lok Sabha seat.
The central leadership it was learnt had turned down their request and expressed annoyance over the matter.
BJP candidate Dilip Saha got only 20,211 votes. There are 23 lakh voters in Sagardighi and 73 per cent of the voters had exercised their franchise.
The TMC stands for Terror, Mafia and Corruption. There is graft everywhere in West Bengal. Whether it is SSC recruitment or any other type of hiring, jobs are up for sale: BJP chief
The House, which was also attended by the chief minister Mamata Banerjee, just two minutes into the session of the Governor’s address starting at 2pm, the BJP legislators, headed by Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition shouted slogans “chor dhoro jail bhoro”, “Governor shame, shame”
The West Bengal unit of BJP on Monday announced a reshuffle in its core committee with the induction of megastar Mithun Chakraborty.
