Raju Bista faces tough challenge within BJP in Darjeeling
Breaking the BJP’s tradition in Darjeeling, sitting MP Raju Bista has won the first round as his name was announced by the party as a candidate from Darjeeling LS constituency.
Breaking the BJP’s tradition in Darjeeling, sitting MP Raju Bista has won the first round as his name was announced by the party as a candidate from Darjeeling LS constituency.
The BJP leaders and workers, including the Darjeeling MP Raju Bista today joined the ceremony in Siliguri.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista today claimed that the allocation of funds for the development of railway network and its infrastructure for West Bengal has been tripled compared to UPA regime.
Darjeeling MP Raju Bista, following the Interim Budget tabled by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman today said that the central government would introduce a new tourism policy
Although I'm being praised for how I dealt with cancer after I was diagnosed, it's not just like that, I rather would choose to say that I wasn't brave," said 'Pardesh girl' Mahima Chaudhury.
On this, Mr Bista said he has drawn the attention of the Chairman of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), J Satyanarayan, on 14 January this year, and requested him to set up the Aadhar Registration and Correction Centre for the Darjeeling parliamentary area.
It may be mentioned here that the Kalimpong Subdivisional Officer had recently handed down notices to at least 200 families living in forest areas, quashing their claims that they were forest dwellers.
In Siliguri, a spike in the cases has prompted the Board of Administrators (BoA) of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) to stress on random Covid-19 testing to reach out to a maximum number of people.
The worst-affected districts will be Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Alipurduar, Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Malda and North Dinajpur, all in north Bengal.
Though the health department had advised him to remain in 14 days' home quarantine, local people had objected to the same, sources said.
