: Tuesday, December 29, 2020, 4:59 PM IST Politics of hate can t triumph over secularism : Mamata hits back at BJP from roadshow in Bolpur
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee at the Bolpur rally on Tuesday
Screengrab from video posted by @AITCofficial on Twitter
With an aim to hit back at the increasingly vicious campaign of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly Election 2021, state chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday held a roadshow at Bolpur in the Birbhum district.
Notably, this is the very place where Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah had conducted his own roadshow earlier this month on December 20.
There are many complaints from local people over the road, says Mamata Banerjee. (File)
Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said today that the Public Works Department (PWD) will take back control of a road near the Visva Bharati University s campus. The 2.9 km long road connects two campuses of the university Santiniketan and Sriniketan and the university authorities were given possession of it in 2017. There are many complaints from local people that they are not being allowed to use the road and it was causing inconvenience. So, the PWD will now take control of it, Ms Banerjee said at an administrative meeting at Bolpur in Birbhum district.
Amartya Sen on Visva-Bharati s illegal occupants of campus plots list
According to Vivsa-Bharati, the academic department, office, the girls hostel, as well as the Vice Chancellor s official bungalow have made it to the list of plots allocated to private parties
BusinessToday.In | December 24, 2020 | Updated 16:27 IST
Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal has written to its state government alleging that dozens of university s plots have been wrongly allocated to private entities. The university situated at Shantiniketan said in writing that the team preparing the list of unauthorised occupants include Amartya Sen.
According to Vivsa-Bharati, the academic department, office, the girls hostel, as well as the Vice Chancellor s official bungalow have made it to the list of plots allocated to private parties. The university attributes the transfer of land towards businesses like that of restaurants, schools, among others to the practise of wrong recordings in the government s
No Poush Mela this year, help local artists sell their products online: Modi to Visva-Bharati University students
Visva-Bharati University completed 100 years today. PM Modi remembers Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore and says that the university continues to be an integral part of the Indian culture. Updated: December 24, 2020 4:52:27 pm
On January 1, PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of the Light House Project in Agartala. (File)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took part in the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University through video conferencing and urged university officials and its students to help local artists sell their handicraft products online to the global market.
Updated Dec 24, 2020 | 17:52 IST
While BJP has tweeted a purported invitation letter alleging Mamata chose politics over Tagore, Mamata laments that the event was made political sacrificing Tagore s legacy. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee | Photo Credit: PTI
Key Highlights
Mamata laments the speech of PM Modi, calls it politcal
Mamata will hold public rally in Bolpur on December 29
Kolkata: The centenary celebration of prestigious Viswa Bharati University is mired in a fresh controversy as Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal Chief Minister, was seen missing from the event on Thursday. The event was, however, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and State Governor Jagdeep Dhankar. The Chief Minister said that she was never invited, never received any invitation and also dismissed claims made by BJP that the invite was sent by the University. She regretted the cultural event was made into a BJP event.