West Bengal’s budget bets on infra push, welfare, jobs and fiscal repair
The BJP-led West Bengal government and journalist-turned-politician Swapan Dasgupta’s maiden budget attempts an ambitious political and economic balancing act.
The BJP-led West Bengal government and journalist-turned-politician Swapan Dasgupta’s maiden budget attempts an ambitious political and economic balancing act.
Punjab Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring on Sunday jibed at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Nabin for selling the alleged bogus dreams of recreating the Maharaja Ranjit Singh era in Punjab.
Stepping up his attack on the BJP-led Odisha government, Leader of the Opposition and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) president Naveen Patnaik on Friday accused it of failing the state's most vulnerable citizens over the non-disbursal of social security pensions to nearly 18 lakh beneficiaries for the last three months, and urged Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi to ensure immediate release of the pending payments.
The BJP on Friday accused the Congress of being responsible for the declining relevance of the INDIA bloc, claiming that the alliance is facing an existential crisis due to the opposition party’s “opportunistic and self-serving politics”.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), under Asansol organisation district of Rahr Bangla, has officially unveiled two new, futuristic state-of-the-art party offices in Durgapur city in West Burdwan district on Thursday named as ‘Janatar Karyalay’.
Terming Gandhi’s allegations against PM Modi as” false and fraudulent”, Rao said the Congress declined from its peak performance-- from securing 404 seats in the Lok Sabha in 1984 to merely 44 seats in 2014.
The two-week-long campaign will run from September 17 to October 2.
A protest over months of unpaid wages at Arati Cotton Mill in Howrah on Thursday disrupted a programme attended by West Bengal BJP state president and Lok Sabha MP Shamik Bhattacharya, with workers surrounding his vehicle in Dasnagar and staging angry demonstrations.
Trinamul Congress has demanded unconditional apology from Sukanta Majumdar, Union minister of state for education after it was found out that photographs of Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay were placed on the base of the dais, while the minister sat on a chair.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday strongly criticized the Uttar Pradesh police over custodial deaths, questioning the BJP's double standards on human rights.
