West Bengal Budget Session

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a scathing attack on Congress using West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's remarks on differences in the INDIA bloc over seat-sharing.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit New Delhi on Monday after attending the inaugural day of the state budget session to attend the meeting of the 'one nation one election' committee slated for February 6.

Nine states, including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal, have withdrawn general consent to the CBI to probe cases, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said today.

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar today took a dig at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying she has applauded disorder in the House on the inaugural day of the budget session when he had to cut short his inaugural speech and table it instead.

BJP lawmakers Sudip Mukhopadhyay and Mihir Goswami were on Wednesday suspended from attending the West Bengal assembly for the rest of the budget session for creating disturbances in the House during Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's inaugural speech.

The West Bengal assembly saw unruly scenes on the first day of the Budget session as BJP members protested in the well of the house over alleged post-poll violence in the recently held local body elections.

High drama was witnessed on the first day of the budget session of the West Bengal assembly on Monday as Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was forced to table his inaugural address with BJP MLAs staging a protest in the House.

The budget session of the West Bengal Assembly will begin from July 2 with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's address, Speaker Biman Banerjee said on Tuesday.

The Trinamool Congress on Monday sought an adjournment of the Parliament session citing assembly elections in five states of the country.

The second part of the Budget session of Parliament was off to a stormy start today - the Rajya Sabha was adjourned at 10.02 am, minutes after Question Hour began - as Congress MPs raised slogans demanding a debate over the rise in fuel prices in the past many weeks. The Upper House then got adjourned three more times before calling it a day in the...

Bharatiya Janata Party West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh on Friday lashed out at the Mamata Banerjee-led government for not inviting Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to the state Legislative Assembly on the first day of the session for a speech.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday did not deviate from the written speech prepared by the state government for his address at the beginning of the budget session and said intolerance, bigotry and hatred are the "new norms in the country".

The CBI-Kolkata Police row yesterday washed out proceedings in both houses of Parliament, even as Home Minister Rajnath Singh termed the developments in West Bengal as "unprecedented" and warned that the Centre has powers to take action.

Professor Sugata Bose, a first time lawmaker who represents West Bengal's Jadavpur in the Lok Sabha, called for the country's sedition law to be scrapped, in a much acclaimed speech in the Lok Sabha today. Later, the speech had him trending on Twitter.

A busy political period is upon us. The Budget Session of Parliament begins this week in Delhi, and in West Bengal we are in the thick of pre-election preparations.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today launched a scathing attack on Congress using West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's remarks on differences in the INDIA bloc over seat-sharing.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit New Delhi on Monday after attending the inaugural day of the state budget session to attend the meeting of the 'one nation one election' committee slated for February 6.

Nine states, including Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal, have withdrawn general consent to the CBI to probe cases, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said today.

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar today took a dig at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying she has applauded disorder in the House on the inaugural day of the budget session when he had to cut short his inaugural speech and table it instead.

BJP lawmakers Sudip Mukhopadhyay and Mihir Goswami were on Wednesday suspended from attending the West Bengal assembly for the rest of the budget session for creating disturbances in the House during Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's inaugural speech.

The West Bengal assembly saw unruly scenes on the first day of the Budget session as BJP members protested in the well of the house over alleged post-poll violence in the recently held local body elections.

High drama was witnessed on the first day of the budget session of the West Bengal assembly on Monday as Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar was forced to table his inaugural address with BJP MLAs staging a protest in the House.

The budget session of the West Bengal Assembly will begin from July 2 with Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar's address, Speaker Biman Banerjee said on Tuesday.

The Trinamool Congress on Monday sought an adjournment of the Parliament session citing assembly elections in five states of the country.

The second part of the Budget session of Parliament was off to a stormy start today - the Rajya Sabha was adjourned at 10.02 am, minutes after Question Hour began - as Congress MPs raised slogans demanding a debate over the rise in fuel prices in the past many weeks. The Upper House then got adjourned three more times before calling it a day in the...

Bharatiya Janata Party West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh on Friday lashed out at the Mamata Banerjee-led government for not inviting Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to the state Legislative Assembly on the first day of the session for a speech.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday did not deviate from the written speech prepared by the state government for his address at the beginning of the budget session and said intolerance, bigotry and hatred are the "new norms in the country".

The CBI-Kolkata Police row yesterday washed out proceedings in both houses of Parliament, even as Home Minister Rajnath Singh termed the developments in West Bengal as "unprecedented" and warned that the Centre has powers to take action.

Professor Sugata Bose, a first time lawmaker who represents West Bengal's Jadavpur in the Lok Sabha, called for the country's sedition law to be scrapped, in a much acclaimed speech in the Lok Sabha today. Later, the speech had him trending on Twitter.

A busy political period is upon us. The Budget Session of Parliament begins this week in Delhi, and in West Bengal we are in the thick of pre-election preparations.