He said Darjeeling would be developed as the state's first world-class tourism destination, while the second destination would be identified as part of the government's long-term tourism strategy.
With TMC divided into factions, numbers suggest that the three BJP candidates are almost certain to win the by-elections.
The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.
In West Bengal, the BJP is set to secure victory in all three Rajya Sabha seats as Trinamool Congress may not be in the race due to internal rebellion
Modi said that institutions established during Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s period laid the foundation for the country’s economic and industrial growth.
A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi were hearing multiple petitions questioning the procedure including timelines that is being followed in the intensive revision of the electoral rolls in Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Kerala.
Members of the BLO (Booth Level Officers) Adhikar Raksha Committee started a dharna outside the West Bengal CEO office on Monday afternoon, protesting against 'excessive work pressure' due to the ongoing SIR exercise. The protest escalated Monday night when the demonstrators clashed with police and gheraoed the CEO’s chamber.
The ECI is carrying out SIR pan-India to weed out ineligible voters and illegal immigrants who have somehow managed to enter the electoral rolls, in order to protect the integrity of the poll process. However, the Opposition has alleged that the aim of the exercise is to disenfranchise genuine voters who support opposition parties and thereby help the BJP.
On the occasion of Constitution Day, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has called for a sustained struggle against "endangered and bulldozed" democracy, secularism, and federalism in the country.
In a major breakthrough against the rising menace of “digital arrest” cases, the Bidhannagar Commissionerate has arrested two persons from Karnataka for allegedly extorting nearly Rs 1.47 crore from a Rajarhat resident after posing as police officials and threatening him with false criminal charges.
