Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday retorted to various allegations by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee and accused him of having links with the Maoists.Addressing a press conference in Kolkata, Mamata said: “I think that the Marxists and the Maoists are both sides of the same coin. They are working together. If Maoists are to be banned, why not the CPM which is also...
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Families of the two cops' who were kidnapped by Maoists on July 30 in Dharampur in Lalgarh District and Union Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday.Addressing the media after the meeting, Mamata said Chidambaram has assured all possible help to the suffering families.'I along the families of two missing constables met the Home...
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Families of the two cops' who were kidnapped by Maoists on July 30 in Dharampur in Lalgarh District and Union Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday.Addressing the media after the meeting, Mamata said Chidambaram has assured all possible help to the suffering families."I along the families of two missing constables met the Home...
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Mamata Banerjee’s gift to her constituency may result in the scrapping of a project that one of her predecessors as railway minister had planned for Howrah.Ministry sources said Satyajit Ray Railway Indoor Stadium in Behala’s Gholsapur, part of Mamata’s South Calcutta constituency, might sound the death knell of a proposed sports complex in Howrah that Nitish Kumar had approved in 1997-98.The railways...
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SEVOKE/KOLKATA:Mamata Banerjee has coined a phrase for the ongoing strife be it in Lalgarh orthe Hills. "Such discord is created for political gains. No solution can beachieved through violence. I call this political pollution'. One just has tolook around and appreciate how much work can be done to develop the state," shesaid at Sevoke in Darjeeling district on Friday.Sevoke is a GorkhaJanamukti Morcha...
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27(ANI): Families of the two cops' who were kidnapped by Maoists on July 30 in Dharampur in Lalgarh District and Union Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday.Addressing the media after the meeting, Mamata said Chidambaram has assured all possible help to the suffering families."I along the families of two missing constables met...
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KOLKATA:Putting their recent differences behind, state Congress leaders came outstrongly in support of Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee over herstance on the Maoist trouble in Bengal.CPM leaders have slammedMamata, especially after the Rajdhani hold-up, saying that she goes soft onMaoists."I do not believe Mamata supports Maoists. She has alreadyclarified her stand. If there is any further...
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Railway minister Mamata Banerjee today defended her right to appoint members of the culture clan to the utility’s committees.“It is my discretion whom I appointment to the committees,” she told STAR Ananda.Theatre artiste Shaonli Mitra was reluctant to accept a position on a heritage panel, Mamata said, adding that she had forced her. “Capable people with experience should be take part in the policy-making...
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Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded imposition of President's rule in West Bengal under article 356 of the constitution.Addressing the All Party meeting in the national capital, Mamata said: "More than 300 people have been killed and it is not fair in a democratic set-up, which is why we want Article 356 against the atrocities.""The atrocities against...
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Mamata Banerjee has begun testing the waters for an unpalatable but unavoidable factor in governance: land acquisition.The railway minister who rode to power on an anti-land acquisition platform today conceded that she needed land, including from farmers but “willing”, to lay railway tracks.Mamata stressed on the word “willing” to draw a distinction with the “forcible” acquisition of the CPM-led government...
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