Kolkata Mar 20 PTI The micro small and medium enterprise department of West Bengal on Sunday asked district magistrates to communicate to state-run schools about adhering to specifications on school uniformsThe uniforms in the specified colours logo school bags and shoes will be made by self-help groups under the MSME the notice saidThe entire thing will come into effect once the SHGs complete the manufacturing of uniforms bags and footwear as per specified norms and code in colour and design an official said Till then the existing uniforms of the schools concerned will continueSlamming the move BJP state president Sukanta Majumder said We know the state government is thrusting the blue-white colour scheme and the Biswa Bangla logo on all the state-run and aided schools to satisfy the whims of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee This works against the autonomy of an educational institution and is a political move by the Trinamool Congress We will oppose it Senior minister and TMC leader Sovandeb Chattopadhyay said many poor students can hardly afford the uniform stipulated by a schoolThe decision is aimed at bridging this gap as students of all financial backgrounds will be wearing the same kind of uniform in a class he said PTI SUS MM MM

Kolkata Oct 31 PTI The West Bengal BJP on Sunday mocked TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee for his repeated visits to Tripura contending that it showed the desperation and childishness to project it as a national partyBJP state president Sukanta Majumder claimed that Banerjee was addressing meetings in Agartala where TMC supporters and activists brought from different parts of West Bengal are in attendance as the party has no base in TripuraThe Trinamool Congress is harbouring ambitions to make inroads in states like Tripura and Goa but this will not bring them political dividends People are mature enough to see through their game plan he saidJaiprakash Majumdar the saffron partys state vice-president said TMCs attempts to make a mark at the national level smacks off insanity indiscretion and childishnessLet Trinamool day dream about upstaging the BJP at the Centre to get majority seats in the Lok Sabha on its own That will not happen in the next 100 years Majumdar saidAbhishek the nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee told a gathering in Tripura earlier in the day that his party would form the next government in the northeastern state after the 2023 assembly electionsHe promised to end BJPs misrule and said the TMC will follow Bengals model of good governance to deliver fruits of development in Tripura PTI SUS RBT RBT

Discontent within the Bengal unit of the BJP came out in the open when two factions within the party brawled in the presence of state  president Sukanta Majumder and his predecessor Dilip Ghosh at Katwa on Friday As the two leaders arrived for an organisational meeting, one group started shouting against the leadership of Dilip Ghosh, […]

Kolkata Sep 21 PTI Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee will go ahead with his visit to Tripura on Wednesday to attend party programmes as per plans but has cancelled the proposed mega rally in the wake of the Tripura High Court order a top party leader said on Tuesday Banerjee will not change his plan to visit Tripura and will attend TMCs Jogdaan karmasuchi joining programme on September 22 he said The new West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumder has welcomed Banerjee to Tripura where the government headed by the saffron party is in power Tripura High Court on Tuesday rejected the TMC plea to hold a rally in Agartala on September 22 which was slated to be addressed by Banerjee and other senior party leaders TMC leader Subal Bhowmik had moved the court on Monday seeking its permission to hold the mega rally after the state police on September 18 denied permission to the party to hold the rally Tripura High Court on Tuesday rejected a Trinamool Congress plea to hold a rally here on September 22 which was slated to be addressed by All India Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and other senior party leaders Tripura Advocate General Siddhartha Sankar Dey told the court on Tuesday that the district magistrate of Tripura West district has already imposed prohibitory order under Section 144 Cr PC in the sadar subdivision on September 21 till November 4 as part of the precautionary measure to prevent the third wave of the COVID pandemic Also since Durga puja is to be held from October 11 the administration does not want to allow any political rally or public gathering in Agartala in view of it Moreover it has been observed that the city witnessed violence in the aftermath of political rallies or procession over the past two or three weeks Thats why the prohibitory order has been clamped in the sadar sub-division he said TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy said We will honour the court order and will not run away from the fieldBut as far as the Biplab Deb government in Tripura is concerned we wonder how it has all off a sudden woken up to the threat of COVID third wave on the eve of Abhishek Banerjees proposed rally in the state and invoked prohibitory orders till November 4 on the assembly of even 50 people which is permitted under the Disaster Management Act he added Majumder said We welcome Abhishek to Tripura where restrictions are in force due to the pandemic But why is he not visiting other states Let him see how the opposition is treated by the ruling party elsewhere in India Not the way it is in Bengal he added TMC is trying to reach out to BJP-ruled Tripura where assembly polls will be held in 2023 Stones had been allegedly thrown at Banerjees convoy and his party leaders reportedly attacked during their earlier visits to the north eastern state as part of TMCs programme since August this year PTI SUS KK httpptinewscomimagesptijpg We bring the World to you Disclaimer This e-mail message may contain proprietary confidential or legally privileged information for the sole use of the person or entity to whom this message was originally addressed Please delete this e-mail if it is not meant for you httpptinewscomimagesptijpg We bring the World to you Disclaimer This e-mail message may contain proprietary confidential or legally privileged information for the sole use of the person or entity to whom this message was originally addressed Please delete this e-mail if it is not meant for you KK KK