Noted economist Amit Mitra likely to step down as West Bengal finance minister due to ill health
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Noted economist Amit Mitra likely to step down as West Bengal finance minister due to ill healthPTI
Last Updated: Jul 11, 2021, 01:55 PM IST
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Mitra, a former FICCI secretary general, has been part of Banerjee s close decision-making team since 2009, when the TMC was part of the UPA-2 and she was the railway minister. Amit Mitra
Noted economist and senior TMC leader Amit Mitra is likely to step down as the West Bengal finance minister and even retire from active politics due to ill health, party sources said on Sunday. Seventy-three-year-old Mitra, who has been the state finance minister since 2011 when the TMC came to power after ending the 34-year-long rule of the Left Front, had refrained from contesting this year s assembly elections.
Economist, TMC Veteran Amit Mitra To Step Down As Finance Minister Of West Bengal
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Bengal polls: Congress, Left finalise deal on 193 seats; decision on rest later
Bengal polls: Congress, Left finalise deal on 193 seats; decision on rest later
Last Updated: Fri, Jan 29th, 2021, 09:59:06hrs
New Delhi: The Congress and Left Front on Thursday finalised sharing of 193 seats of the total 294 in West Bengal assembly with the Left parties getting the lion s share of 101 seats.
Announcing the poll deal, state Congress president Adhir Chowdhury Thursday said the party will contest in 92 seats and the decision on the rest 101 will be taken at a later date.
The 193 seats for which the seat sharing was announced include the 77 seats that Congress and the Left had won in the 2016 state assembly polls, Chowdhury told reporters at a joint press conference along with Left Front Chairman Biman Bose.
The Bengal Assembly on Thursday passed a resolution against the three contentious farm laws enacted by the Centre and demanded that they be withdrawn immediately.
The ruling Trinamul Congress had moved a resolution earlier in the day, while BJP MLAs staged a noisy walkout on Thursday.
The CPI(M) and the Congress supported the resolution but demanded that the state government withdraw similar laws it had passed a few years back.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the Centre should either withdraw the new laws or step down.
Speaking after the resolution was moved by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee amid vociferous protests by BJP lawmakers, Mamata demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi convene an all-party meeting to discuss the process of withdrawal of these laws.