Updated Dec 22, 2020 | 13:43 IST
A division bench comprising justices Sanjib and Arijit Banerjee directed the registrar to forward a copy of the order to the GOC-in-C. HC orders suo motu PIL on illegal parking, garbage along Kolkata s Maidan | Photo Credit: PTI
The Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered the initiation of a suo motu public interest litigation on the state of the Maidan, a large green stretch owned by the Army beside the Eastern Command headquarters in the heart of Kolkata, in view of garbage on the grounds and illegal parking on the roads crisscrossing it.
A division bench comprising justices Sanjib Banerjee and Arijit Banerjee directed the Registrar (administrationI) to immediately forward a copy of the order to the GOC-in-C, Eastern Command and to the officer who heads the Bengal Area Command, asking the Additional Solicitor-General to inform the appropriate Army authorities.
Mamata Banerjee on Sunday issued a statement to attack the BJP-led Centre over its allegedly brazen interference with the state government’s functioning and thank several key non-BJP leaders for their show of support.
The Bengal chief minister, according to sources close to her, also spoke to NCP chief Sharad Pawar in the morning on the need for non-BJP forces across the country to stick together amid the saffron camp’s “marauding onslaught”.
“Centre is brazenly interfering with State Govt functioning by transferring police officers,” Mamata tweeted, referring to the unilateral transfer of IPS officers from Bengal by the Centre in the wake of the attack on BJP chief J.P. Nadda’s convoy in South 24-Parganas earlier this month.
Will Mamata Banerjee’s decline revive the Left in Bengal again? Bengal s voters are not likely to forget in a hurry the last arrogant and oppressive years of the Left Front Abhijit Majumder December 20, 2020 10:04:41 IST Representational image. Reuters
In a severe drought, when most farmers’ lives get destroyed, one group sees opportunity: the salt farmers. Salinity in the soil peaks during drought, making it a harbinger of joy for some in an otherwise dark time.
Similarly, while the astonishing rise of the BJP in Bengal has ruination for anti-saffron parties, there may just be a glimmer for the near-extinct Left in the state. Mamata Banerjee has nearly decimated the once-mighty CPM, which ruled Bengal for 34 years. It got just 6.28 percent votes in the 2019 general elections. In 2016 Assembly polls, despite teaming up with the Congress, once upon a ti
Hereâs The Long History Of Mamata Banerjee Throttling Opposing Viewpoints
by Jaideep Mazumdar - Dec 11, 2020 09:25 AM
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (Illustration: Swarajya Magazine)
Snapshot
In her bid to deny any space to any other party, Mamata Banerjee has had no qualms about using the state machinery.
An account of Bengal Chief Ministerâs infamous record of intolerance to criticism, and angry diatribes.
The attack on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president J P Naddaâs convoy by Trinamool goons on Thursday has come as yet another evidence of Mamata Banerjeeâs long history of intolerance to opposing viewpoints.