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’.
Criticising the Congress leader and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)’s Tejashwi Yadav, who is being presented as chief ministerial face of the INDIA bloc for the upcoming Bihar elections, Prasad said, “Why Yadav was presenting himself as a number two player in Bihar when Congress has no case in the state”.
The three-day special session in West Bengal Assembly beginning from Monday is set to be rocked by protests as the ruling Trinamool Congress has decided to bring a resolution against Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) and a censure motion on alleged attacks on Bengali migrant workers in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states.
The BJP on Sunday slammed the Mamata government after the names of Trinamool Congress leaders' relatives figured in the "tainted candidates" list published by the West Bengal School Service Commission (WBSSC).
BJP leader Amit Malviya on Sunday slammed Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra for making anti-Hindu and casteist remarks against SC communities in West Bengal.
Preparations are in full swing to accord a grand welcome to Mauritius Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam on September 11 in the cultural city of Kashi.
