Page 14 - Bengal Development News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Synopsis After as many as 43 Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders were sworn in as ministers in Mamata Banerjee's Cabinet on Monday here at Raj Bhavan, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar issued a list of portfolios allotted to them. Trinamool Congress won 213 seats in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will keep the portfolios of Home and Hill Affairs, Personnel and Administration, Health and Family Welfare, Land and Land Reforms and Refugee and Rehabilitation, Information and Cultural Affairs and North Bengal Development. After as many as 43 Trinamool Co...

India News: KOLKATA: Though the BJP failed to dislodge Mamata Banerjee from power, the saffron party managed to weather the TMC storm emerging triumphant in 25 of.

BJP weathers Trinamool storm in north Bengal, maintains Lok Sabha gains The tally of winning seats for the saffron party in north Bengal looks "reasonable even after the overall setback", political analyst Subhomay Maitra said. Share Via Email   |  A+A A- By PTI KOLKATA: Though the BJP failed to dislodge Mamata Banerjee from power, the saffron party managed to weather the TMC storm emerging triumphant in 25 of 42 constituencies in six districts of the region in the high- octane assembly elections. Nevertheless, the result was below BJPs impressive performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha po...

West Bengal Election 2021: Hope brews in the North Bengal tea gardens © Chanpreet Khurana West Bengal Election 2021: Hope brews in the North Bengal tea gardens There is a kind of a hush in north Bengal where tea plantation workers, including those in the world’s finest gardens, voted last week in the hope that their demands for better livelihood could finally be met. The plantation workers are on tenterhooks. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) - the challenger - and the Left Front have all promised them the moon in the run-up to the assembly elections....

West Bengal minister Bachchu Hansda and Tehatta MLA Gouri Sankar Dutta joined the BJP on Wednesday after being denied nominations for the assembly polls by the Trinamool Congress. Hansda, the Minister of State for North Bengal Development, joined the BJP in presence of its state president Dilip Ghosh. He is a two-time MLA from the Tapan seat in the Dakshin Dinajpur district. Dutta, the MLA from Tehatta in Nadia, is a veteran politician. He also switched over to the BJP as defections continued to rock the ruling Trinamool Congress weeks ahead of the high-stakes election. Besides, Bengali a...