TOPIC

Mamata Banerjee

Latest news and updates about current Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and. memes, party news and comments made by the CM herself.

News Reports

Refugees in their own country: Victims of Bengal post-poll violence narrate their stories from Assam camps

OpIndia Staff - 7 May, 2021

Nandigram MLA and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari had also asserted that over a lakh people have already fled Bengal since the post-poll violence erupted in West Bengal from May 2, 2021.

News Reports

After TMC leaders denying post-poll violence, Mamata Banerjee announces compensation for kin of victims

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

Mamata Banerjee has claimed that around 16 people have died in the post -poll violence, almost equal from BJP and TMC, and oner person from the Sanjukta Morcha.

News Reports

West Bengal: Mamata govt to use over 2.75 lakh ‘quack’ doctors to fight Covid in rural areas

OpIndia Staff - 6 May, 2021

According to a report published in BBC in July 2020, over 100,000 such doctors helped the West Bengal government control the disease.

News Reports

Bengal post-poll violence: Over a lakh people have fled from Bengal, says BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2021

In recently concluded polls, TMC won 213 out of 292 seats while BJP won 77 seats. Suvendu Adhikari defeated West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram.

News Reports

Exodus of BJP workers with families from Bengal to Assam continues due to violence by TMC, state govt and BJP provide shelter, food, essentials

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2021

All the people who have entered Assam are from Cooch Behar district in West Bengal, where BJP won 7 out of 9 assembly seats

Opinions

How the ‘Liberal’ press is whitewashing Bengal’s post-election violence

T Waraich - 5 May, 2021

Online publications like The Wire and Scroll.in seem to have more of a problem with BJP's characterization of the post-election violence, than the actual post-poll violence itself.

News Reports

Bengal post-poll violence: TMC goons attack BSF jawans, set their homes on fire, Network 18 journalist reveals

OpIndia Staff - 5 May, 2021

Earlier, TMC Chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had demonised the central paramilitary forces. She had even urged the party supporters to 'gherao' them during elections.

Politics

National Commission for Women takes suo motu cognizance of violence by TMC against women in Nandigram, sends a team

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2021

NCW Chief Rekha Sharma has also dispatched a team to West Bengal for further inquiry. Rekha Sharma will reportedly lead the team herself.

News Reports

1000 Hindu families in Birbhum have left their homes to escape TMC mob in West Bengal: Former MP Swapan Dasgupta

OpIndia Staff - 4 May, 2021

Former Rajya Sabha MP and the BJP candidate from Tarakeswar Swapan Dasgupta had tweeted about the alarming situation in Birbhum on Monday.

News Reports

Congress leaders hail Mamata Banerjee’s victory in Bengal even as their ground workers continue to get attacked by TMC goons

Jinit Jain - 4 May, 2021

Congress NSUI workers have been subjected to assault, their houses ransacked and vandalised, but Kapil Sibal and Shashi Tharoor have flattering words of praise for Mamata Banerjee for her recent victory

1...555657...167 Page 56 of 167