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CBI vs Mamata: High voltage drama in Kolkata after arrest of ministers; TMC workers pelt stones on forces
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and scores of Trinamool Congress workers reached the CBI s office in Kolkata on Monday to protest against the arrest of four party working including two ministers.
Banerjee has started a sit-in at the CBI office here and demanding from the officials to arrest her. The Chief Minister rushed to the 15th floor of the Nizam Palace where the CBI has the office of its anti-corruption cell. Didi (Banerjee) will not leave this CBI office until her party colleagues are released or until she is also arrested, Banerjee s spokesperson, lawyer Anindyo Raut told waiting media persons.
Trinamool Congress ministers Subrata Mukherjee, Firhad Hakim, TMC MLA Madan Mitra and ex-BJP leader Sovan Chatterjee, were arrested earlier today in connection with the Narada cash-for-favour case
Mamata Banerjee s brother died at a hospital in Kolkata. (File)
Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s brother Ashim Banerjee died of Covid-related complications at a hospital in Kolkata this morning. He was 60. He had tested positive for COVID-19 and was undergoing treatment, Dr Alok Roy, chairman of Medica Superspecialty Hospital in Kolkata, was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
The last rites will be conducted this afternoon as per Covid protocols.
West Bengal reported 20,846 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the state s total caseload to over 10.94 lakh. 136 patients died in the same period.
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Bengal is among the 12 states that cumulatively account for 79.7 per cent of India s total active cases, the Union Health Ministry had said on Friday.
Bengal s Covid Quota Downwardly Revised Every Day: Mamata Banerjee Writes To PM Modi Mamata Banerjee Letter To PM Modi Over COVID-19: We were told we shall get 70 pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plants, now we are told that we shall get four in the first phase with no clarity on the remaining plants (sic), Mamata Banerjee wrote in her letter to PM Narendra Modi.
Updated: May 14, 2021 7:34 pm IST We were told we shall get 70 PSA plants, now told that we will get 4 , Mamata Banerjee wrote to PM Modi
Kolkata:
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, requesting him to be fair and quick in allotment of pressure swing adsorption (PSA) plants for the state, amid the relentless surge in COVID-19 cases.