Tag: Bengal BJP

Bengal BJP calls 12-hour bandh to protest attack on MP Arjun Singh

Singh was admitted to the ICU of a private hospital in Kolkata after sustaining a head injury during a clash between his party activists and the police at Shyamnaagar in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.

September 2, 2019

Muslim Trinamool MLA’s inclusion sparks discontent in Bengal BJP

Islam, said to be a prominent Muslim face of Trinamool, had crossed over to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Delhi on Wednesday.

June 2, 2019

West Bengal Lok Sabha results: Absentee Saumitra Khan wins Bishnupur for BJP

After his win, the BJP leader extended his "warm regards" to the CPI-M for voting in his favour "en masse to mark their protest against the Trinamool Congress’s anarchy and atrocities”

May 24, 2019

BJP now scouts for a big name to take on Mausam Noor in North Malda

Senior state leaders, including Mukul Roy, Rupa Ganguly, and Sayantan Basu, are learnt to have shown interest in North Malda as their electoral battlefield for the Lok Sabha polls

February 1, 2019

BJP leaders scurry for permission to hold political rallies in Bengal

PM Narendra Modi is likely to address a few rallies ahead of the Lok Sabha elections

February 1, 2019

Tension in Bengal’s Khardah after BJP leader’s wife gangraped

Police are looking for the culprits, but no one has been arrested in this connection yet.

January 4, 2019

Supreme Court to hear BJP plea on Bengal Rath Yatra on January 8

The BJP was originally scheduled to hold three 'Rath Yatra' rallies from north Bengal’s Cooch Behar, South 24 Parganas districts Gangasagar and Birbhum district's temple town of Tarapith, to be flagged off by party President Amit Shah on 7, 9 and 14 December, respectively.

January 3, 2019

Bengal bandh today: Govt vows to maintain normalcy

Government has assured that all steps have been taken to ensure normalcy on Wednesday. It has asked shops, offices and all establishments along with educational institutes to function normally.

September 26, 2018

Bengal BJP worried over TMC’s rising violence on supporters

“For the past six months since the panchayat election held, TMC with the help of the Congress and CPI-M is desperately trying to force the people not to support the BJP,” BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said.

September 15, 2018

Bengal BJP accuses TMC of killing party leader in Mandirbazar

A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader in Mandirbazar area in West Bengal’s Diamond Harbour was hacked to death by miscreants on Friday night.

July 28, 2018

BJP targets Bengal; Shah to visit state soon

BJP's SC morcha also launched a sit and demonstration programme.

July 12, 2018

Bengal BJP releases poll manifesto, promises pro-people panchayat

Bengal BJP on Tuesday released its panchayat poll manifesto promising to make the panchayat truly pro-people and remove corruption in several Centre-assisted schemes like ‘Prime Minister Sadak Yojna’ and ‘Swachh Bharat’. It also promises to provide mid-day meal up to class X and to ensure that people irrespective of their religious belief, could practice their …

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April 25, 2018

BJP to hit back if TMC goons further attack their candidates: Dilip Ghosh

BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said that TMC will face dire consequences if they further force the BJP candidates to withdraw their nomination papers. Mr Ghosh said that BJP candidates have filed nomination for more than 35,000 seats in the panchayat election but TMC-backed goons are still terrorising their party candidates in the rural belts …

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April 16, 2018

Police complaints filed against Bengal BJP leaders over Ram Navami

On the day Mamata Banerjee warned political groups in her state to refrain from stirring communal passions, complaints were filed against West Bengal BJP leaders Dilip Ghosh and Locket Chatterjee over rallies during Ram Navami. According to reports, a police complaint was filed in Kharagpur Town Police Station in of West Midnapore district on Monday …

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March 26, 2018

Denied permission for rally, Bengal BJP moves High court

Accusing the state government of vindictive politics, the BJP’s West Bengal unit on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court against the denial of permission for one of their proposed bike rallies. The week-long bike rally ‘Protirodh Sankalp Abhiyan’ by the Bharatiya Janata Party’s youth wing (Yuva Morcha) was to start from East Midnapore district’s coastal …

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January 10, 2018

Bengal BJP wants ‘fake cases’ against Bimal Gurung withdrawn

The West Bengal BJP leaders on Thursday met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to apprise him of the situation in Darjeeling hills and appealed him to urge the state government to withdraw “fake cases” against exiled Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (JMM) chief Bimal Gurung. Singh was in the city on Thursday to hold a meeting with …

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December 8, 2017

Bengal BJP writes to Centre on ‘dengue epidemic’ in state

Seeking steps from the Centre to combat the “dengue epidemic” in West Bengal, BJP’s state President Dilip Ghosh has written to Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda, alleging that test kits were being smuggled out to private health centres due to “corruption of the ruling party”. “There is also huge shortage of dengue test kits in …

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November 12, 2017