Just hours after Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Jawhar Sircar announced to quit the party over the R. G. Kar issue, BJP's central observer for West Bengal Amit Malviya on Saturday said Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Kolkata Police Commissioner Vineet Kumar Goyal should follow suit.
According to sources, after Sircar's communique to the Chief Minister expressing his desire to resign from Rajya Sabha and quit politics as protest against the ghastly rape and murder of a junior doctor of R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital, and the corruption in general governance surfaced on Sunday morning
Sircar has communicated this decision to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee through a letter dated September 8, where he has also said that he has decided to quit politics for good.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold the administrative review meeting on Monday. Chief secretary Manoj Pant, Home Secretary Nandini Chakraborty, all additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and departmental secretaries are supposed to attend the meeting.
On the occasion of Teachers' Day, chief minister Mamata Banerjee paid rich tributes to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and respect to the teaching community.
Five people were arrested on Thursday on the charges of planning to attack the residence of chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Kalighat here.
Her post, although framed as a congratulatory message, appeared to be laced with a sharp undertone as she commented on Jay Shah's rise to the position of ICC chairman.
The 12-hour state bandh, called by the state BJP demanding resignation of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, had a lukewarm response and had least impact in the suburbs.
Junior doctors this afternoon brought out a huge protest rally from Shyambazar close to the R G Kar Medical College Hospital where the woman PGT doctor was raped and killed.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday appealed to junior doctors to resume work in government hospitals across the state so that patients.
