I hope that her protest will free the country of all anti-democratic elements.
Describing the CBI as one of the "allies" of the BJP-led central government, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday alleged that the Centre was using the agency to harass the opposition parties throughout the country. She called the CBI, which was yet to get a new director, "headless" and said it has now become a "spineless BJP". "So political vendetta continues. BJP & its 'allies' comprising multiple govt agencies harassing all allies of Oppn from Kol to Delhi & beyond," Banerjee tweeted. She also doubted whether the saffron party was "scared" and using the agencies in a "desperate" move. "From @yadavakhilesh to Behen Mayawati Ji, nobody is spared. From north to south. From east to west. Political vendetta by BJP. Are they scared? Are they desperate? One headless agency has now become spineless BJP," she added. The CBI registered a new case against former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda and others over alleged irregularities in land allocation in ...
Gandhi is likely to skip Mamata's rally and the Congress has deputed its leader in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, to represent the Grand Old Party at the event
It is our humanitarian obligation to give refuge to migrants, said Mamata Banerjee
Although, the West Bengal chief minister had congratulated the winners, she had stopped short of naming either Congress or Gandhi
As per latest trends, the BJP is trailing in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh to the Congress
She compared the country with the human body and said that December 6 is observed in West Bengal as 'Sanhati Dibas'
According to the law, the CBI - constituted under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act of 1946 - has jurisdiction over Delhi but requires the consent of other states to enter
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, whose speciality is the flip-flop - known as a U-turn in the UK and a backflip in Australia - has done it again, though this time with very little consequence
In her last few visits to Delhi, she made it a point to meet the leaders of regional and Opposition parties as part of her efforts to cobble up support for the 'federal front'
Mamata takes charge of tribal development ministry
In her bid to form an alliance against the Narendra Modi-led BJP and allies, Mamata Banerjee has met Sonia Gandhi, Kejriwal, rebel BJP leaders, K Chandrasekhar Rao and Sharad Pawar, among others
Erstwhile TMC leader Mukul Roy, who joined the BJP last year, also attacked Banerjee over the law and order situation in the state
Some sources claimed Banerjee broached the subject of forming a "federal front" without the Congress with Pawar
Mayawati alleged the BJP tried to create a rift between the two parties (SP and BSP) by indulging in malpractices to defeat her party candidate
After the meeting with Banerjee, Patel told reporters that the idea of having a federal front in the future was discussed between them.
For National Health Protection Scheme, the states will have to scrap their own similar existing programme
Without us Congress cannot function in Delhi. Let the state Congress leaders ask their party leaders in Delhi: Mamata said
New Delhi, January 30The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday indicated that its chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had the most "impeccable credentials" among opposition leaders to lead a front of opposition parties against Narendra Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the next Lok Sabha polls.The Trinamool claim came a day after Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar had convened a meeting of the opposition parties to discuss future strategy, which the Trinamool Congress didn't attend. Trinamool leaders claimed they were not invited to the meeting, but NCP sources disputed this.Interestingly, Trinamool Lok Sabha member Dinesh Trivedi was sent by his party to attend the 'save the Constitution' rally that Pawar had organised in Mumbai on Janaury 26. On Tuesday, Trivedi was his party's representative at the launch of Yashwant Sinha-led political platform 'Rashtra Manch'.The Congress party has, however, conveyed to the NCP that Sonia Gandhi continued to be ...
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