Samik Bhattacharya, a 61-year-old Rajya Sabha member and chief spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s West Bengal unit, emerged as the sole contender for the post of state president on Wednesday as nobody else filed nominations during the organisational election process paving way for the veteran leader, senior party functionaries said.
Mamata Banerjee, scrambling to douse the Kasba gang-rape flames from behind the scenes, has been left “very displeased” by the public fight on the issue between party MPs Kalyan Banerjee and Mahua Moitra and the insensitive comments from MLA Madan Mitra.
A day before the Rath Yatra festival, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday held a high-level meeting with officials of Digha Shankarpur Development Authority (DSDA), police and ISKCON monks at the newly constructed Jagannath temple here.
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee met Bangladesh High Commissioner M Riaz Hamidullah at the state secretariat Nabanna for the first time in 9 years. The courtesy meeting was held to discuss motives behind incidents like the vandalism of a site linked to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore in Bangladesh.
In West Bengal’s Kaliganj, one of the five Assembly Constituencies across the country, which went to bye-election on Thursday (June 19, 2025), allegations flew thick and fast.
Prompted by a series of devastating fire incidents, Minister of State Fire and Emergency services, Sujit Bose announced plans of expanding and modernising the state’s fire stations. Defending his department’s response to the Khidderpore fire that destroyed over 1,300 shops, Bose unveiled the initiative.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday (June 18, 2025) objected to the use of the term Samvidhan Hatya Divas and the observance of the day on June 25 by the Union government. “Every day, the constitutional values and democracy are being trampled in this country,” Ms. Banerjee said.
The Calcutta High Court sought clarification from the West Bengal government over the controversial retaliatory transfers of Dr. Debasish Haldar, Dr. Aniket Mahato and Dr. Asfaqullah Naiya from RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
