Taking on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her oft-repeated outsider barb against him and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and accusing her of lack of knowledge, Union Home Minister Amit Shah Tuesday said that it is the Trinamool Congress, Left and Congress who have to depend on outsiders. He said that Banerjee, also Trinamool Congress supremo, terms him and Modi as outsiders but her party depends on votes from illegal immigrants. Am I an outsider? Am I not a citizen of the country? Didi terms the country s prime minister as an outsider, Shah told a poll rally at this tea garden town in Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district.
Read more about EC imposed campaign ban on Mamata at BJP s behest, says Sanjay Raut on Business Standard. Raut on Tuesday alleged that the Election Commission s decision to bar Mamata Banerjee from campaigning for 24 hours was taken at the behest of the BJP.
West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday staged a 3.5-hour-long dharna in the heart of the city to protest against the Election Commission s unconstitutional decision to bar her from campaigning for 24 hours. Banerjee, still confined to a wheelchair owing to the injuries she sustained in Nandigram last month, arrived at Mayo Road here around 11.40 am and began her sit-in next to a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, with the security personnel having cordoned off the area. No TMC leaders or supporters were spotted nearby. A senior TMC leader, when approached, said, No party member was allowed anywhere near the site of the dharna. She sat there alone.
Read more about Paramilitary forces are working as per EC s directions, says CRPF DG on Business Standard. After four people were killed in Sitalkuchi during the fourth phase of the Assembly elections on April 10, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had blamed Union Home Minister Amit Shah
Read more about West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee barred from campaigning for 24 hrs on Business Standard. This is in connection to her remarks against central forces and a statement which had alleged religious overtones