Kolkata

Dhankhar had on May 7 sanctioned prosecution of ministers Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, TMC MLA Madan Mitra and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee on a request by the CBI, which is probing the sting operation that had purportedly caught on camera po...

Hakim, the state’s transport minister and chairman of the board of administrators of the KMC, came back to his Chetla residence in the evening, amid tight security

A few days ago, West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has accorded prosecution sanction to CBI against three TMC leaders including ministers in the 2016 Narada sting operation case. Speaker said the arrest was illegal, as CBI did not take his permission.

The agitators also burnt tyres and blocked roads in several other parts of the state, including Hooghly, North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas districts.

Dhankhar urged CM Mamata Banerjee to contain the "explosive situation" and asked her to weigh the "repercussions of such failure of constitutional mechanism".

The toll rose to 12,993 after 136 more people succumbed to the disease, it said.

The six CISF officials, including two of its officers, have been asked to meet sleuths of the Special Investigating Team (SIT) of the CID, formed to investigate the killings, at Bhawani Bhawan Tuesday morning, he added.

Arguably the most bitterly fought in a long time, the polls got mired in controversy the very day the EC announced an 8-phase election schedule for Bengal.

The CPI-M has decided no big rallies will be held by it during the remaining phases of the election and stress would be on door-to-door campaigns and group meetings.

Banerjee also urged the poll watchdog to rescind its notice, contending she has not violated the model code or the various sections of the Indian Penal Code.

The union home minister said instead of criticising central forces and EC, the CM should do an assessment of why the TMC is losing the polls.

TMC won 29 of the 31 seats voting on Tuesday. But BJP feels a possible division of Muslim votes and anger against local TMC leaders will work in its favour.

BJP alleged large-scale violence has been reported during past several days due to such utterances by the TMC chief.

However, observers say the CM's actions to woo Hindu voters could also reinforce the BJP's ideological dominance.

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Observers say Mamata's barb was likely targeted at Abbas Siddiqui's Indian Secular Front as well as Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM.