Mamata Banerjee alleged that PM Narendra Modi was using his party to start a fire in West Bengal, and warned that if Bengal burns, other states including Assam, North-East, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Delhi too shall burn.
The case came to light while West Bengal is witnessing protests over the brutal murder of a junior doctor in a state-run hospital in Kolkata on August 12. The Kolkata Police arrested one man in the case.
In a blistering attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the ruling TMC supremo came to power on the promise of a government for "Maa, Maati, Manush" but was now catering to "Mullah, Madrasa and Mafia".
West Bengal BJP worker Gangadhar Koyal has moved the Calcutta HC over the sting videos used by TMC to claim that Sandeshkhali rape allegations are fake, saying that the videos are fake
West Bengal Government moved the Supreme Court against the Calcutta High Court decision that declared the entire panel of 2016 School Service Commission teachers' recruitment null and void
While the nation is marking celebrations of Ram Navami, an attack on a Ramanavami Shobha Yatra has been reported from West Bengal’s Rejinagar in Murshidabad