A day after Subedar Mohammad Sanaullah (retired) was declared a “foreigner” by an Assam foreigners’ tribunal, the Supreme Court ordered the National Register of Citizens coordinator to ensure a fair hearing of those who were left out without any shortcuts.
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Senior Congress leader and party media chief Randeep Surjewala said his party members wouldn’t participate in television debates for a month. Surjewala requested media channels to not place any of their representatives on their shows.
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Mamata Banerjee decided to drop her plan to attend Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony because the BJP had invited the family members of around 50 of its workers in Bengal, who had been allegedly killed in political violence in her state.
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Days after the Modi wave hit Bengal and the BJP made deep inroads into the Trinamool Congress bastion in 2019 Lok Sabha election, two TMC MLAs and at least 50 TMC councillors, on Tuesday, along with a CPM MLA joined the saffron party.
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A tribal theatre activist, Jeetrai Hansda, has been arrested in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Jharkhand almost two years after he posted a comment asserting his community’s right to eat beef.
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Trinamool Congress leader and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee sent a defamation notice to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making “wildly fabricated allegations” against him at a rally in West Bengal’s Diamond Harbour.
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Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said the Congress is not averse to supporting any regional party leader for the prime-ministerial post even if the Congress emerges as the single largest party. However, party spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala differed from Azad’s views.
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The Supreme Court vacated the interim protection from arrest given to former Kolkata Police commissioner Rajeev Kumar and granted him seven days to to seek protection from arrest by the CBI for his alleged role in destroying evidence in the Saradha chit-fund scam.
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All the opposition leaders have expressed solidarity with Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee after the Election Commission ordered to cut short campaigning in the state by a day in the wake of clashes between TMC and BJP workers.
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A day after BJP and Trinamool Congress workers fought pitched battles during Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah’s road show in Kolkata, the Election Commission has decided to cut short the electioneering for nine Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal, by a day.
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