Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is facing opposition fire for rubbishing the rape victim's complaints as a conspiracy. ...
03:33 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Kolkata: Expressing doubts over the effectiveness of the Lokpal bill as it excludes the corporate sector, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Biman Bose on Wednesday slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for opposing the move to grant constitutional status to the anti-graft ombudsman. "I doubt how much effective this Lokpal will be as it excludes the corporate sector," Bose told. "The Lokpal bill couldn't get the constitutional status because of...
03:33 AM, Dec 29, 2011
Kolkata: The CPI(M) on Saturday demanded that Maoist leader Kishenji's post-mortem report be made public, saying the controversy over his killing could be set at rest only by it. "What really happened will be known only after the post-mortem report is made public. We think it is the West Bengal government's responsibility to make the report public," CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose told newsmen in Kolkata. Stating that there was...
05:04 PM, Nov 26, 2011
Kolkata: In an unprecedented move, West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan defended Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's storming of a Police station in Kolkata, says she intervened to prevent violence. But the opposition says her action was unbecoming of a chief minister. Mamata virtually stormed into the Bhowanipore police station in Kolkata and demanded release of two Trinamool members who had been arrested for rioting, arson and ransacking a police station on...
06:15 AM, Nov 10, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has raised eyebrows by virtually storming into a police station and demanding the release of party cadre arrested for rioting and arson. She asked policemen at the Bhowanipore police station in Kolkata to release two Trinamool members who had been arrested for rioting, arson and ransacking a police station on Sunday night. Opposition CPM called it a dangerous act by a state chief...
08:09 PM, Nov 09, 2011
Kolkata: The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M), leader of the alliance voted out of power in West Bengal, has confessed it was unable to produce ideal Communists. "We could not groom ideal Communist leaders and workers," state CPI-M secretary Biman Bose said after an in-depth analysis of the party-led Left Front's electoral defeat in May. The election, which brought the Trinamool Congress to power, ended 34 long years of Communist...
01:53 PM, Oct 05, 2011
Kolkata: CPM general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday said that the party in West Bengal would have to re-establish connect with the people and to reorganise itself after the drubbing in the state Assembly elections at the hands of Trinamool Congress-Congress combine. The CPM, which had evidently lost touch with the general masses and failed to assess what they wanted, on Sunday decided to "go back to the masses and...
09:24 PM, Jun 05, 2011
Kolkata: For the first time in 34 years, the Left Front on Friday elected Suryakanta Mishra as the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly. Announcing Mishra's name at a press conference here, Left Front chairman Biman Bose said "our MLAs will have to learn to play the role of the Opposition." Mishra, a CPM MLA from Narayangarh in West Midnapore district since 1991, was health minister in the...
03:25 PM, May 27, 2011
The CPM Politburo, has dismissed Buddhadeb Bhattacharya quitting the Politburo as 'speculation'. ...
11:36 AM, May 16, 2011
Kolkata: "Humbly accepting" the people's verdict in the West Bengal Assembly polls, the Left Front on Friday said it had failed to gauge the mood to the call for 'paribartan' given by the Trinamool Congress. "We did not understand that the people had accepted the slogan of paribartan (change)," Left Front chairman Biman Bose told a joint press conference by Front leaders at the CPI(M) headquarters here. "We have grassroot...
09:28 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has resigned on Friday following the debacle suffered by the CPM-led ruling Left Front in the Assembly polls. Bhattacharjee was the chief minister of the state for two consecutive terms since May, 2001, taking over the baton from party patriarch Jyoti Basu who was at the helm of affairs in the state since 1977. Meanwhile, the CPM state secretariat met here to review...
01:03 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: As Trinamool Congress on Friday appeared all set for the victory in West Bengal Assembly polls, jubilation erupted at Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's modest residence in Kolkata, while gloom descended on the CPM headquarters where Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was closeted with party leaders. Trinamool Congress workers and supporters sang, danced and smeared each other with green gulal to the shouts of the 'Ma, Mati, Manush' slogan coined...
12:21 PM, May 13, 2011
Kolkata: The ruling Left Front Chairman, Biman Bose on Sautrday said that elections to 38 seats in the fifth phase assembly elections in West Bengal was peaceful except some stray incidents. "We had apprehended trouble in some areas. But apart from some stray incidents, elections were peaceful," Bose told news persons here. "A woman fired some shots from a moving car in front of a polling booth at Vivekananda Vidyalaya...
11:28 AM, May 08, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal's ruling Left Front on Tuesday accused opposition Trinamool Congress of terrorising voters during the fourth phase of assembly polls, and said that the "incidents" have raised a question mark over the security arrangements made by the Election Commission (EC). Alleging that the Left Front polling agents were not allowed to sit in booths, the combine's chairman Biman Bose said, "We had earlier expressed our concerns regarding Nandigram,...
11:40 AM, May 04, 2011
Narayangarh: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee claimed that the Left Front would be wiped out after Tuesdays fourth round of polling in the six-phase West Bengal Assembly elections. Addressing a rally at Narayangarh in West Midnapur district where health minister Suryakanta Mishra of CPM is pitted against TMC's Kauser Ali in a crucial contest, Mamata did not guess the number of seats it would get out of the 63 for...
05:08 PM, May 03, 2011
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