The resolution, passed in the state assembly urged the West Bengal government to resume conducting joint entrance examinations in the state.
West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee stated that the swearing-in ceremony for the four new TMC MLAs, post by-polls, should be held within the assembly premises, as per legislative conventions.
Minister of State for Finance Chandrima Bhattacharya said that West Bengal is one of the states which has advocated taxation of such online gaming and similar activities at the highest rate.
A heated exchange ensued between BJP members and the police, leading to BJP MLAs chanting slogans against the state government, accusing it of failing to control the dengue outbreak.
The motion was an unscheduled one, and it did not name anyone as the matter is sub judice.
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh clarified late in the day that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself had called up the Governor to clarify the typing error.
Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday said the BJP lost because of several leaders' overconfidence that the party would get over 170 seats.
Roy, officially a BJP MLA from Krishnanagar Uttar, joined the TMC last month. He, however, did not resign as a legislator, despite being asked to do so by the saffron party.
The resignation of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Tirath Singh Rawat on grounds that he could not get elected to the State Assembly within the six month deadline has put the spotlight on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and pending by-polls to certain Assembly seats in the State.
A team instituted by the Union Home Ministry on Friday visited West Bengal's Birbhum district to assess the post-poll violence situation in the state.
West Bengal government has called a meeting on May 10 with stakeholders of industry, factories, tea gardens to ensure protection of workers from the pandemic
At least 143 MLAs -- most of them from the assembly constituencies of Kolkata, North- and South-24 Parganas, Purba and Paschim Medinipur, Howrah, Hooghly and Jhargram -- are set to take oath on Thursday
BJP chief JP Nadda, on May 05, addressed the party leader in Kolkata and asked the leaders to take oath that they will carry out our responsibility, by happily accepting the mandate, and play the important role of Opposition.
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday claimed the BJP's ''arrogance" was among the reasons for its defeat in the West Bengal Assembly polls.
BJP candidate Sanmoy Banerjee said, "TMC people have resorted to these attacks as they know they are losing the polls. Police are acting as mere spectators."
Bengal polls 2021: Mamata Banerjee will not address election rallies in Kolkata. She will only hold a symbolic public meeting in the city on April 26.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday she will call upon the Election Commission to stop the BJP from bringing "outsiders" during campaigning, squarely blaming the saffron party for exacerbating the COVID-19 situation in the state.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday promised that after coming to power, the BJP will be successful in ushering in "true change in West Bengal
and turn the state into "Sonar Bangla" (Golden Bengal) again. The senior BJP leader a colourful roadshow at Kharagpur town in Paschim Medinipur district in support of BJP candidates contesting the West Bengal assembly election.
Calling Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a "fighter," former BJP leader Yashwant Sinha after joining the TMC on March 13 claimed that the former offered herself as a hostage in exchange for passengers of the hijacked plane in 'Kandahar incident' in 1999.
The full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday asked West Bengal Police to execute all pending non-bailable warrants (NBWs) within this month and to contain violence before the announcement of assembly poll dates.
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