Modi, Mamata sqaure off at rallies in Cooch Behar, trade barbs on CAA
9 months, 1 week ago

Modi, Mamata sqaure off at rallies in Cooch Behar, trade barbs on CAA

The Hindu  

Ahead of the first phase of the Lok Sabha election on April 19, in which three seats in north Bengal will go to polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday held rallies in Cooch Behar. While Ms. Banerjee addressed supporters at Mathabhanga, Mr. Modi held a rally at Raas Mela grounds at the heart of Cooch Behar town. Ms. Banerjee said CAA was connected with the National Register of Citizens and said “no CAA, NRC will happen” in West Bengal. “The whole of Bengal, the whole country has seen how the TMC government used all its strength to save the culprits of Sandeshkhali,” Mr. Modi said.

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OPINION | Will Modi overtake Mamata in Bengal this time?
7 months, 2 weeks ago

OPINION | Will Modi overtake Mamata in Bengal this time?

India TV News  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that West Bengal would come up with the most surprising results on June 4 and “Mamata’s fort will crumble this time”. He said, “ten years ago, I had given the slogan “Na Khaoonga, Na Khaane Doonga”, but this time, I want to add ‘Jihnone Khaaya, Unse Wapas Vasoolunga, Jinka Khaya, Unhen Lautaoonga’.” It …

West Bengal Lok Sabha elections 2024: All eyes on Nisith Pramanik, Modi cabinet's youngest minister
8 months, 4 weeks ago

West Bengal Lok Sabha elections 2024: All eyes on Nisith Pramanik, Modi cabinet's youngest minister

Hindustan Times  

Coochbehar, Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri are the three of the 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal to vote on April 19, the first phase of the election. Coochbehar Lok Sabha constituency comprises seven Assembly seats -- Mathabhanga, Cooch Behar Uttar, Cooch Behar Dakshin, Sitalkuchi, Sitai, Dinhata and Natabari. Lok Sabha elections 2024: Full coverage Alipurduar: BJP's Manoj Tigga will take …

PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee's rallies at north Bengal’s Cooch Behar seat today
9 months, 1 week ago

PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee's rallies at north Bengal’s Cooch Behar seat today

Hindustan Times  

Kolkata: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee are scheduled to address back-to-back Lok Sabha campaign rallies on Thursday at Cooch Behar in north Bengal, a region where the Bharatiya Janata Party has made maximum electoral gains since the 2019 elections. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee with Prime Minister Narendra Modi. North Bengal’s Cooch Behar, …

Banerjee Welcomes Modi's Bengal Rally Amid Polls
9 months, 1 week ago

Banerjee Welcomes Modi's Bengal Rally Amid Polls

Deccan Chronicle  

Kolkata: A day before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha Election campaign rally in West Bengal, chief minister and Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee asserted that anyone can visit the state to hold political programme during polls. On Thursday Mr Modi will address a BJP rally at Rasleela ground in Coochbehar at around 3 pm to support his party candidate …

Congress attacks Narendra Modi government over CAA: ‘Designed to polarise elections’
10 months ago

Congress attacks Narendra Modi government over CAA: ‘Designed to polarise elections’

Hindustan Times  

Opposition parties on Monday lashed out at the Modi government for implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act. “It has taken four years and three months for the Modi Government to notify the rules for the Citizenship Amendment Act that was passed by the Parliament in December 2019. The time taken to notify the rules for the CAA is yet another demonstration …

Mamata: CAA being raked up again for electoral politics, BSF issuing ‘fake cards’
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Mamata: CAA being raked up again for electoral politics, BSF issuing ‘fake cards’

Hindustan Times  

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged the Border Security Force was issuing separate identity cards to people living along the Bangladesh border while urging them to reject these documents as their names would be deleted from the National Register of Citizens. West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee in Cooch Behar on Monday. Union home minister Amit Shah …

CAA will be implemented in West Bengal, says BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, challenges TMC chief Mamata Banerjee
2 years, 1 month ago

CAA will be implemented in West Bengal, says BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, challenges TMC chief Mamata Banerjee

Firstpost  

During a meeting in North 24 Parganas District’s Thakurnagar, an area dominated by the Matuas whose roots are in Bangladesh, Suvendu Adhikari said the CAA will be implemented in West Bengal and dared Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to try and stop it Kolkata: Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari has asserted that the Citizenship Amendment Act …

‘If Mamata opposes…’ BJP hits back as Trinamool calls CAA ‘a mere spectacle’
2 years, 2 months ago

‘If Mamata opposes…’ BJP hits back as Trinamool calls CAA ‘a mere spectacle’

Hindustan Times  

The Trinamool Congress on Thursday once again accused the Bharatiya Janata Party for 'using' the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens with an eye on next month's Gujarat election. Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. If they're giving citizenship under Citizenship Act 1955 why didn't they do that till now?,” TMC MP …

Modi Inducts 35-year-old Nisith Pramanik, Shantanu Thakur, 2 Others from Bengal Into Cabinet
3 years, 6 months ago

Modi Inducts 35-year-old Nisith Pramanik, Shantanu Thakur, 2 Others from Bengal Into Cabinet

News 18  

Though the Bharatiya Janata Party lost the West Bengal Assembly elections in March to Mamata Banerjee but securing 77 seats by the saffron brigade didn’t go unnoticed before the central leadership as Prime Minister Narendra Modi rewarded Shantanu Thakur, Nisith Pramanik, Dr Subhas Sarkar and John Barla with a ministerial post on Wednesday. In Bongaon Lok Sabha seats, Shantanu along …

Nisith Pramanik of Cooch Behar, 35, is youngest minister in Team Modi
3 years, 6 months ago

Nisith Pramanik of Cooch Behar, 35, is youngest minister in Team Modi

India Today  

From May 2, 2021, that number has hung around Nisith Pramanik's neck like an albatross around that sailor from Coleridge's famous poem. Photo: Instagram/NisithPramanik On July 7, 2021, as Nisith Pramanik takes oath as a Minister of State, he will have the distinction of being the first-ever Central minister from the district of Cooch Behar. But before 2021, in 2019, …

BJP talks of implementing CAA everywhere but goes mum on it in Assam: Priyanka Gandhi
3 years, 10 months ago

BJP talks of implementing CAA everywhere but goes mum on it in Assam: Priyanka Gandhi

India Today  

Starting her two-day visit to poll-bound Assam, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi hit out at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over its "silence" on implementing the Citizenship Amendment Act in the state. Addressing a rally in Tezpur on Tuesday, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, "All over India, the BJP talks of implementing CAA, but why does it become mum on it in …

PM Modi on mission election, to address 20 rallies in Bengal, 6 in Assam
3 years, 10 months ago

PM Modi on mission election, to address 20 rallies in Bengal, 6 in Assam

India Today  

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address 20 rallies in poll-bound West Bengal and six rallies in neighbouring Assam. However, the BJP's primary focus this time is on West Bengal, a state where it has enhanced its support base considerably over the past five years and has emerged as the leading competitor to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress. PM Modi will …

Narendra Modi vs Opposition in states over CAA-NPR, NIA
4 years, 11 months ago

Narendra Modi vs Opposition in states over CAA-NPR, NIA

India Today  

In his first term as the prime minister, Narendra Modi had tough time in communicating with the Opposition. ASSERTIVE MODI VS EDGY OPPOSITION Smarting under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's capacity to pull votes for his Bharatiya Janata Party since 2014, the Opposition parties have felt marginalised in national politics. Further, the Modi government's decision to cease operation of Article 370 …

Mamata meets PM Modi in Kolkata, asserts she is against CAA, NRC and NPR
5 years ago

Mamata meets PM Modi in Kolkata, asserts she is against CAA, NRC and NPR

India TV News  

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met PM Narendra Modi in Raj Bhavan in Kolkata. The politically significant meeting between the two leaders took place a short time after the PM arrived in the city on a two-day visit. The meeting comes at a time when new citizenship law has emerged as the latest flashpoint in the state, with Banerjee's …

Mamata demands countrywide referendum against CAA
5 years ago

Mamata demands countrywide referendum against CAA

The Hindu  

A countrywide referendum is required to ascertain if India is ready for the Citizenship Act,, said West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Gopi Aika, a Telugu-speaking activist residing in Kolkata for many decades said that this “rally can only be compared with the anti-land acquisition rally in Kolkata in 2007.” It too was “spontaneous, without any political support, like this …

BJP using CAA-NRC to reach out to Bengali-speaking Hindu voters in Assam, Bengal
5 years ago

BJP using CAA-NRC to reach out to Bengali-speaking Hindu voters in Assam, Bengal

Hindustan Times  

Union home minister Amit Shah has always worn his majoritarian outlook as a badge of pride. West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee leads a protests rally of her party workers through Howrah Bridge, against the NRC and the Citizenship Amendment Act, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2019. The journalist claims that a few weeks after the 2002 …

Elections 2019 LIVE: Mamata Govt Denies Permission to Yogi Adityanath's Kolkata Rally
5 years, 8 months ago

Elections 2019 LIVE: Mamata Govt Denies Permission to Yogi Adityanath's Kolkata Rally

News 18  

Elections 2019 LIVE: After BJP president Amit Shah, the permission for a poll meeting by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath in the city has been cancelled, top party leader claimed Monday. Addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Fatehgarh, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of insulting the nation by “making fun of MGNREGA in Parliament”. …

Election 2019: Maha Congress Hits Out, Says BJP Govt Like Bunty and Babli Duping People
5 years, 8 months ago

Election 2019: Maha Congress Hits Out, Says BJP Govt Like Bunty and Babli Duping People

News 18  

Lok Sabha Elections: Lauding middle class at Mumbai rally, PM Modi said that they make the maximum contribution in country’s development, “and hence, Piyush Goyal announced a relief for tax payers in Budget”. Leading NDA’s show of strength, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding a joint rally in Mumbai along with BJP’s Maharashtra allies. Congress president Rahul Gandhi took a …

Political swing song: Rahul turns on Mamata di, Shiv Sena's love-hate alliance with BJP
5 years, 9 months ago

Political swing song: Rahul turns on Mamata di, Shiv Sena's love-hate alliance with BJP

India Today  

Indian elections or the grand festival of democracy as they are called are finally here. Speaking at a rally in West Bengal's Malda on March 23, Rahul Gandhi compared Mamata Banerjee to PM Modi saying, "Did the youth get employment, did the farmers receive any help? Not stopping there, Rahul Gandhi went on to say that both Mamata Banerjee and …

PM Narendra Modi to address concerns over NRC, Citizenship bill, infiltration in Bengal rally
5 years, 11 months ago

PM Narendra Modi to address concerns over NRC, Citizenship bill, infiltration in Bengal rally

Hindustan Times  

When Prime Minister Narendra Modi stands on the dais of the 6.3 acre ground at Thakurnagar in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on Saturday, uppermost in his mind will be the vexed issues of citizenship and the Matuas who form a three-million-plus strong community who mostly migrated from neighbouring Bangladesh since the 1950s. BJP’s Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh said, …

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