West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee met Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Kolkata on Friday and both parties later announced that they will maintain equal distance from the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress while continuing to reach out to other outfits, marking the first stirrings of an Opposition effort to forge a common platform …
The results of the bitterly contested West Bengal elections were declared in early May. A bureaucrat in controversy The second event that has caused friction between the Trinamool government and the Centre is the controversy over the former Chief Secretary of West Bengal, Alapan Bandyopadhyay. Governor’s role While the recent controversies do not bode well for federalism or indeed democracy, …
