A hundred days into Suvendu Adhikari’s tenure as West Bengal Chief Minister, the BJP government displays an ambitious industrial agenda alongside worrying governance instincts. As cultural confrontations and early extortion charges surface, the administration faces a critical test of economic delivery ahead of crucial civic elections.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari is set to lead a ‘Saffron Samman Yatra’ from Golpark to Jadavpur University on September 9. This comes after a recent ‘Vande Mataram’ programme held at the politically charged campus on Rakhi Purnima.
BJP’s first months of office in West Bengal have revealed twin outcomes. They are the possibilities which Subhendu Adhikari-led state government can turn into positive upshots together with the limits of regime change.
Sonia Gandhi has long occupied the centre of Indian politics while revealing little about herself. She has been most ubiquitous and elusive for three decades.
The centenary of Bengali cinema icon Uttam Kumar has become more than a celebration of his contribution to films. It has also turned into a political moment, with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) using the actor’s enduring popularity to strengthen its cultural connection with West Bengal. Uttam Kumar, popularly known as the “Mahanayak”, remains one of the most respected figures in Bengali culture, nearly five decades after his death.
BJP Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Wednesday alleged that his name was wrongly classified as “shifted” in the draft electoral rolls in Punjab and accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab of political vendetta.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday launched ‘Arjun Vahini’, a force aimed at ensuring a rapid response to natural and infrastructure-related disasters in vulnerable areas across the state.
Ahead of Bengali cinema icon Uttam Kumar’s birth centenary, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid tribute to the legendary actor in his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’, recalling a personal memory of passing by his Kolkata residence during a roadshow before the Assembly elections and receiving a photograph of him as a gift.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari Saturday announced that internal procedures are underway to refund ticket money to roughly 33,000 spectators who attended the Lionel Messi event in Kolkata last year.
A fight broke out at Diamond Harbour Trinamul Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee’s office in the city on Thursday when a team of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) officials and Kolkata Police personnel raided the address and forcibly removed the party’s billboard there amidst resistance.
