No Poush Mela this year, help local artists sell their products online: Modi to Visva-Bharati University students
Visva-Bharati University completed 100 years today. PM Modi remembers Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore and says that the university continues to be an integral part of the Indian culture. Updated: December 24, 2020 4:52:27 pm
On January 1, PM Modi will also lay the foundation stone of the Light House Project in Agartala. (File)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday took part in the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University through video conferencing and urged university officials and its students to help local artists sell their handicraft products online to the global market.
To shed outsider tag, Shah visits Santiniketan, eats at artiste house
During his November visit to the state, he had lunch at the residence of a tribal BJP worker in Bankura district and the house of a Matua community member in North 24 Parganas district. December 21, 2020 4:00:10 am
Home Minister Amit Shah at Basudeb Das Baul’s house at Syambati village on Sunday. (PTI)
To reach out to Bengali intellectuals and shed the “outsider” tag, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday spent over two hours at the Visva-Bharati University (VBU) in Santiniketan to pay homage to Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.
Santiniketan, a neighbourhood of Bolpur, was founded and developed by members of the Tagore family. Tagore had set up Visva-Bharati (now Visva-Bharati University) in 1921.
Amit Shah roadshow in Bolpur today
Meanwhile, BJP workers took out rallies in support of Shah s visit and chanted slogans. Patriotic songs were also played at the venue of the road show. December 20, 2020 5:30:58 am
Amit Shah (File)
PREPARATIONS ARE in full swing in Bolpur town in Birbhum district to welcome Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday. Huge cutouts of Shah, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP leaders Mukul Roy and others have been put in Bolpur-Santiniketan Road where Shah will participate in a road show. In a bid to counter the BJP, posters of chief minister Mamata Banerjee highlighting her government’s achievements have also come up on the same road.
Amit Shah: ‘Will consider implementing CAA after Covid-19 vaccination starts’
Shah, who held a roadshow in Bolpur and addressed a press conference in the evening, defended the Centre’s decision to write to the state government asking for three IPS officers to be sent to Delhi on deputation. Updated: December 21, 2020 7:58:50 am
Amit Shah during his road show in Bolpur Sunday. (Express photo by Shashi Ghosh)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the government would consider implementing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act after the vaccination against Covid-19 begins.
Shah, who held a roadshow in Bolpur and addressed a press conference in the evening, defended the Centre’s decision to write to the state government asking for three IPS officers to be sent to Delhi on deputation.
Ahead of Amit Shah meeting: Two more MLAs quit, TMC claims ‘deserters’ are no loss
Suvendu Adhikari and several other TMC leaders at various levels of the party are expected to join the BJP at a public meeting presided over by Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday. December 19, 2020 5:02:27 am
Police officers take stock of security preparations for Amit Shah’s rally at Midnapore College Ground, Friday. (Express photo by Partha Paul)
Two MLAs of the Trinamool Congress, the leader of its minority cell, and general secretary of a district unit quit the party on Friday as the widely anticipated exodus in the wake of former minister Suvendu Adhikari’s rebellion gathered momentum.