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Among others, Mohan Bhagwat will meet Sarod player Pandit Tejendra Narayan Majumdar and renowned poets, classical singers and authors. He will also meet selective ‘Sangathan Pramukhs’, who are active in the state.

JP Nadda, who arrived here on a two-day visit to the state, will also inaugurate an election control room at Hastings and party offices in nine districts digitally.

The West Bengal CID has already taken over the case and begun a probe to identify the person who fired the shotgun, which led to the killing of a BJP worker Ulan Roy.

"I have been constantly visiting various areas in my constituency since last year's elections. I am a grassroots- level political worker," she said. An agitated BJP activist said that trouble began when one of the workers could not initially meet the MP d...

Ghosh further said that the state, after failing to utilise central grants of over Rs 2,000 crore for Cyclone Amphan relief, is now writing to the Union government for allocation of Rs 8,500 crore, but "no one trusts Didi (Mamata Banerjee) anymore."

During the meeting, the entire state Congress leadership favoured the partys alliance with the Left, but opinions of senior members differed over seat-sharing.

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said her government had declassified all the files it had related to Netaji, but the BJP-led Centre failed to fulfil its promise in this regard.

A 25-year-old man was arrested from Kolkata for threatening Indian pacer Mohammed Shami's estranged wife Hasin Jahan, police said on Wednesday.

At a programme on Saturday, the Birbhum chief of the TMC invited Ghosh to "meet my booth-level workers" and subsequently join the ruling party, to which the BJP leader said that he would ensure Mondal's "fury" remains under check.

The West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) and the Communist Party of India- Marxist (CPI-M) will rally on November 23 to protest against the alleged 'anti-people' policies of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre.

Senior BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya alleged that the Rs 1,000-crore assistance from Prime Minister Narendra Modi after his visit to the Amphan-affected areas in West Bengal was not accounted for by the state government.

CPI (ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya said that the TMC and the BJP can’t be put in the same bracket. The BJP should be identified as the principal political enemy in West Bengal.

Addressing a public meeting at Baduria in North 24 Parganas district, he said the TMC, instead of taking concrete steps to improve the economic condition of Muslims and other minorities, is shedding crocodile tears for them since 2011.

The Bangladesh Home Ministry has taken a strong note of the incident in which a man has threatened to kill Cricketer Shakib Al Hasan for ‘inaugurating’ a Kali Puja pandal last week in Kolkata.

Senior TMC MP Sougata Roy said such statements only prove how the BJP uses central agencies like ED and CBI to pursue their political goals".

The BJP, which has made deep inroads in West Bengal by winning 18 of its 42 Lok Sabha seat – four less than ruling TMC in the 2019 general election, was waiting for the Bihar election results before mounting its "final assault" on the Mamata Banerjee gove...