Kolkata: The State Election Commission on Tuesday agreed to the formula proposed by the West Bengal government for district wise holding of the panchayat elections in three phases and said the polls would be notified this week. "As of now, yes. We will issue the notification by this week," State Election Commissioner Mira Pandey said when asked whether the SEC has agreed to the 9-4-4 district distribution formula by the state government.
Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee told a meeting at Singur in Hooghly district that the poll schedule would be known in the next few days. "The panchayat poll will be held in three phases and we will be able to get sufficient police force from other states as polling will be staggered," he said. "We hope that the people will be with the Ma Mati Manush government and bless it," he said.
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02:01 AM, May 22, 2013
Kolkata: The West Bengal State Election Commission on Saturday wrote to the state government seeking a change in the schedule for the panchayat polls and the bunching of districts in each phase. The state government had issued a notification on Friday proposing three-phase polls. Nine districts are to go to the hustings July 2, and four each July 6 and July 10. The SEC's latter has sought a regrouping of...
04:15 AM, May 19, 2013
Burdwan: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday slammed the Opposition for conspiring to prevent her government from holding panchayat polls on time and vowed that elections will be held at the appropriate time. "Panchayat polls will be held at the appropriate time. Work for panchayats and 100 days' will not be hampered", she said at a party rally here without elaborating. "We have been trying to hold panchayat...
01:59 AM, May 11, 2013
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has instructed that ministers Partha Chatterjee and Firhad Hakim would be the spokesmen for the government in what is seen as a disapproval of minister Subrata Mukherjee's comments against Governor MK Narayanan. ...
10:52 PM, Jan 11, 2013
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress leader Subrata Mukherjee on Sunday said that the Union cabinet reshuffle should have been undertaken by the government after proving its strength in Parliament following Mamata Banerjee's withdrawal of support. The Trinamool Congress vice-president and state minister told reporters that "unclean" ministers were chosen by the Centre to "disturb" peace in West Bengal. "This government was formed by our support and after we withdrew, why did they...
11:03 PM, Oct 28, 2012
Kolkata: The West Bengal government has been contemplating amendment to the present Panchayat Act, 1973, to remove some lacunae in it. "We think there are some lacunae in the present Act and in view of this, we are considering amendment to the Panchayat Act, 1973," state's Panchayat Minister Subrata Mukherjee told reporters at Writers' Buildings. Incidentally, Mukherjee was the Panchayat minister in the SS Ray cabinet in 1973 when the...
08:24 PM, Mar 28, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday came out strongly against the TMC and dismissed Mamata Banerjee's dare as mere posturing. Party leader Salman Khurshid said that Mamata was merely trying to pander to her constituency. "Individual leaders constituents, people who represent Assembly segments, parliamentarians they all need to survive and they have constituencies they need to pander to or certainly to respond to and some of these things therefore are...
11:14 AM, Jan 08, 2012
Kolkata: The Congress-Trinamool relationship is on the rocks. On Saturday, TMC's Subrata Mukherjee launched another attack on its ally, likening it to rival CPI(M). He said that the two parties were two sides of the same coin. Mukherjee was speaking at a programme organized to remember the nine villagers who were killed at Netai in the Lalgarh area of West Midnapore exactly a year ago. The TMC leader picked up...
10:15 AM, Jan 08, 2012
