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Today in Politics: Haryana Crisis and Modi's Campaign Trail

As tensions rise in Haryana, the fate of the BJP government hangs in the balance. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address rallies in Maharashtra, Telangana, and hold a roadshow in Odisha.

PM Modi’s packed schedule includes a series of rallies and roadshows across three states. Starting with a rally in Nandurbar, Maharashtra, he’ll then move to Telangana for two more rallies before heading to Bhubaneswar for a roadshow.

In other campaign news, the Election Commission has ordered re-election at four booths following a mishap involving electronic voting machines in Uttar Pradesh. Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav will also campaign in Kannauj, Kanpur Nagar, and Kanpur Dehat.

Meanwhile, BJP leaders JP Nadda, Amit Shah, and Rajnath Singh are all set for rallies in various states including Haryana, Jharkhand, West Bengal, and Odisha.

In Haryana, the Congress seeks to meet the Governor amidst a brewing crisis, with three Independent MLAs withdrawing support from the BJP government.

In a separate development, the Enforcement Directorate opposes interim bail for Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in a money-laundering case, highlighting the contentious issue of campaigning during legal proceedings.

Additionally, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar is slated to visit religious sites in Ayodhya.

Stay tuned for more updates on today’s political landscape.

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Jagdeep Dhankhar was once a special disciple of Devilal, also became MLA from Congress

Jagdeep Dhankhar was once a special disciple of Devilal, also became MLA from Congress

Vice President Election 2022: BJP has announced the name of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as NDA for the post of Vice President. Seeing the equation being created regarding the Vice Presidential election, it is believed that Jagdeep Dhankhar will be elected as the next Vice President of the country. Jagdeep Dhankhar has been a famous leader of Rajasthan. There are also many interesting…

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43 MLAs of Mamata-led TMC government in West Bengal to take oath as ministers tomorrow

43 MLAs of Mamata-led TMC government in West Bengal to take oath as ministers tomorrow

Image Source : PTI 43 MLAs of the TMC government to take oath of office on Monday. Days after Mamata Banerjee took oath as West Bengal Chief Minister for the third time, 43 MLAs of the Trinamool Congress government (TMC) will take oath of the office on Monday (May 10). The swearing-in will take place at 10:45 am. On Wednesday, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar administered oath of office to Mamata…

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Ashok Gehlot Preps For Delhi Role But Reassures Rajasthan MLAs: 10 Points

Ashok Gehlot Preps For Delhi Role But Reassures Rajasthan MLAs: 10 Points

Sachin Pilot’s rebellion had almost brought down Ashok Gehlot’s government in 2020 Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, a frontrunner for Congress chief’s post, met his MLAs last night and told them that he is “not going anywhere”, sources said. The meeting was held after he hosted a dinner for Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar Here are the top 10 developments of this big story This…

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Vice President Election 2022 Jagdeep Dhankhar Was A Disciple Of Devi Lal And Also Became MLA From Congress

Vice President Election 2022 Jagdeep Dhankhar Was A Disciple Of Devi Lal And Also Became MLA From Congress

Vice President Election 2022: बीजेपी ने उपराष्ट्रपति पद के चुनाव के लिए एनडीए के तौर पर पश्चिम बंगाल के राज्यपाल जगदीप धनखड़ (Jagdeep Dhankhar) के नाम की घोषणा की है. उपराष्ट्रपति चुनाव को लेकर बन रहे समीकरण को देखकर ये तय माना जा रहा है कि जगदीप धनखड़ ही देश के अगले उपराष्ट्रपति (Vice President) चुने जाएंगे. जगदीप धनखड़ राजस्थान (Rajasthan) के चर्चित नेता रहे हैं. उनके राजनीतिक जीवन से जुड़े कई…

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Mamata Banerjee, 2 other TMC MLAs take oath of office in presence of governor Jagdeep Dhankhar

Mamata Banerjee, 2 other TMC MLAs take oath of office in presence of governor Jagdeep Dhankhar

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee took her oath of office in the presence of Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at the state assembly on Thursday. Along with Banerjee, Amirul Islam and Jakir Hossain also took their oaths as newly elected Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA). All three belong to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC). Banerjee won the bypolls to Bhabanipur assembly…

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Trinamool MP launches scathing attack on Guv- The New Indian Express

Trinamool MP launches scathing attack on Guv- The New Indian Express

By Express News Service KOLKATA:  Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Sunday launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, asking the public to lodge complaints against him with the police. Kalyan accusing the governor of being hand in gloves with the BJP and being involved in a conspiracy to arrest Trinamool Congress MLAs in connection with Narada sting operation…

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S8 women and 7 minority MLAs among Mamata’s 43 ministers

KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has struck a fine balance between experience and fresh faces, packing her council of 43 ministers with eight women and seven members from the minority community. While handpicking her team, Banerjee has had an eye on district representation. She has also undertaken some major changes in portfolio distribution, possibly based on public feedback.

Like earlier, the CM has kept for herself a few key departments such as home, Hill affairs, health and family welfare, land and land reforms, refugee relief and rehabilitation, information and culture, and north Bengal development.

Glimpses at oath taking ceremony @MamataOfficial https://t.co/oocSDmxoDu— Governor West Bengal Jagdeep Dhankhar (@jdhankhar1)

She has passed on minority development and madrasa education to Ghulam Rabbani, three-time MLA from Goalpokhor in North Dinajpur. Under the new arrangement, higher education goes to Bratya Basu, like it was before Partha Chatterjee had taken over, and school education to former Left Front minister-turned-Trinamool MLA Paresh Adhikary. Retired IPS-turned-Trinamool MLA Humayun Kabir is the new technical education minister. Both Adhikary and Kabir are ministers of state. Chandrima Bhattacharya has got independent charge of urban development and municipal affairs, along with her responsibilities as MoS health, land reforms. Amit Mitra will look after finance. He has been relieved of the commerce industry portfolio that has been assigned to Partha Chatterjee, other than parliamentary affairs. Former urban development minister and Kolkata ex-mayor Firhad Hakim is the new transport and housing minister. Aroop Biswas will handle power, sports and youth affairs while former power minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay will manage the agriculture department. Moloy Ghatak is the new public works department minister and will also handle law and judicial portfolios. Ratna De Nag is the new environment minister. Madhyamgram MLA Rathin Ghosh is the food minister while Jyotipriya Mullick has been given forest portfolio. Two inductions from East Midnapore include Soumen Mahapatra and Akhil Giri. Mahapatra is a Cabinetrank minister in charge of irrigation and Giri is MoS in charge of fisheries. Another major inclusion in the Cabinet is Manas Bhuniya, Trinamool’s Rajya Sabha member. He had served as Cabinet minister in the first Mamata Banerjee regime in 2011 till Congress (Bhuniya was then with Congress) pulled out of the government. Bhuniya is in charge of water resources and investigation department. The other cabinet portfolios remain more or less the same. Trinamool veteran Subrata Mukherjee has panchayat and rural development and also public enterprises while public health engineering goes to Uluberia Dakshin MLA Pulak Roy, a new entrant. Former cricketer Manoj Tiwari is minister of state for youth affairs. The new council has representation from backward classes, including Adivasis, that had been a major plank of the BJP. Bulu Chik Baraik, Sandhya Tudu, Srikanta Mahato, Birbaha Hansda and Jyotsna Mandi are among the prominent inductees.

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Suvendu quits as MLA, likely headed for BJP

KOLKATA: Former Bengal minister and rebel Trinamool Congress MLA Suvendu Adhikari resigned from the assembly on Wednesday, more than a fortnight after he quit the state cabinet and said it had become “difficult to work together” in a party he described as a “one-person” organisation. Although Adhikari remains a primary member of TMC, his loyalists say the disgruntled party veteran is set to cross over to BJP during Union home minister Amit Shah’s public rally in Midnapore this Saturday. Adhikari, who reached the assembly around 3.55pm to submit his resignation letter to speaker Biman Banerjee, requested “immediate acceptance” of his decision to quit. He also wrote to governor Jagdeep Dhankhar for his “intervention”, citing apprehensions about “political vendetta” in the form of “unleashing police repression by implication in criminal cases”. “Good riddance,” Trinamool MP Kalyan Banerjee said of his estranged colleague’s exit as an MLA. “It is better to have an empty cattle shed than one filled with troublemakers. The same set of people will make a beeline back to the party when CM Mamata Banerjee is voted back to office,” he added. Party MP Saugata Roy, who had been trying to mend fences with Adhikari on TMC’s behalf, said, “This has nothing to do about ideology. This is bargaining for position. He wanted to be deputy chief minister, may be even CM. I don’t know what BJP has offered him. We knew where he was headed. This does not come as a surprise.” BJP welcomed Adhikari’s resignation, saying “many more” from the TMC ranks would be joining the saffron party in the near future.

source https://bbcbreakingnews.com/2020/12/17/suvendu-quits-as-mla-likely-headed-for-bjp/

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Mamata Banerjee to take oath as Chief Minister of West Bengal for third time today

Mamata Banerjee to take oath as Chief Minister of West Bengal for third time today

Image Source : PTI (FILE) Mamata Banerjee to take oath as West Bengal Chief Minister for third time today Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will be sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal for the third time today. Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar will administer to her the oath of office and of secrecy at Raj Bhavan at 10:45 AM. The newly elected TMC MLAs had on Monday unanimously…

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‘You are our guest, but...’: Mamata Banerjee raises CAA, NRC during courtesy meet with Modi - india news

Mamata Banerjee says Prime Minister Narendra Modi invited her to Delhi to discuss Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens after the Bengal chief minister made her opposition to the exercises clear in a 15-minute meeting with Modi at Raj Bhawan in Kolkata. Mamata said she also demanded that Centre releases Rs 38,000 crore due to the state.“I also told him that you are our guest and I don’t know whether it is proper to raise this but I am telling you that we are opposed to Citizenship (Amendment) Act, National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR). These are creating divisions among people. Please rethink,” said Banerjee. “He (Modi) invited me to Delhi to have a discussion on this issue,” she added.Banerjee said she also raised the issue of the funds due from the Centre and the prime minister promised to look into the issue once he returns to Delhi. The opposition, however, accused Mamata of having an understanding with Modi in private and taking a different stand in public.“She says something in the greenroom and something else on the stage. If her opposition to CAA and NRC was genuine, why didn’t she gather all her MPs in Lok Sabha during the voting on CAA? If she had to speak on debts, why weren’t the finance minister and finance secretary with her?” Communist Party of India (Marxist) politburo member Md. Salim asked.Mamata said she was bound by the “constitutional duty” to meet the PM if he visited Bengal.“If the Prime Minister or President visits Bengal, it is my constitutional duty to meet them. As a courtesy, I met him. Minister Firhad Hakim greeted him at the airport,” Banerjee told the media while leaving Raj Bhavan.The left, however, persisted with its claim of a Mamata-Modi tacit understanding and questioned the timing of the TMC students’ wing’s sit-in demonstration against NRC and CAA.“When students’ organisations all over India were on the streets, she did not ask her party’s student organisation to hit the streets. She asked them to organise a demonstration only after her private meeting with Modi had been finalised. She is playing a game,” Salim said.Veteran Congress MLA and former Bengal minister Manoj Chakraborty similarly, alleged that Banerjee was “acting like BJP’s B Team”.“How could she find it an opportune moment to raise the issue of debt? This meeting with the PM, along with her decision to boycott the January 13 opposition meeting, exposes the real nature of her political line. She has surrendered before the BJP and is playing a game to strengthen it in Bengal,” claimed Chakraborty.Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Derek Obrien soon hit back with a tweet accusing the left and the Congress of armchair activism.“Lets get this straight. Today’s meeting is govt-to-govt. And Trinamool don’t need certificates from anyone. We started this movement & now it is a people’s movement. How many processions have U walked in? How many protests have U led ? Stop giving advice sitting on a sofa,” said his tweet.Meanwhile, governor Jagdeep Dhankhar attacked the state government over counselling of WBUHS (West Bengal University of Health Science) barely a few minutes before he left Raj Bhavan for the airport to receive the Prime Minister. #GoBackModiFromBengal trended on Twitter on Saturday, with 336,000 people tweeting using this hashtag till 5 pm.Demonstrations continued across the city with more rallies being organised in the evening. Read the full article

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Suvendu meets governor with 50 of 75 MLAs | India News

Suvendu meets governor with 50 of 75 MLAs | India News

KOLKATA: As many as 50 of Bengal’s 75 BJP MLAs walked to Raj Bhavan, led by leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari, to submit a memorandum on Monday, the march turning out to be an indirect headcount amid speculation of some party legislators switching loyalties to Trinamool Congress following Mukul Roy’s exit. The BJP delegation submitted to governor Jagdeep Dhankhar the memorandum on continuing…

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TMC heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari quits Mamata’s cabinet: Bengal BJP says ‘we have kept our doors open’

KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who faces one of the most challenging elections of her polical carrer, on Friday suffered another setback as senior Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari resigned as the state’s transport minister. The BJP said that the resignation was a reflection of the anger of TMC leaders against the party’s top brass. However, Mamata accuses the BJP of luring her Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers by offering them crores of rupees. Adhikari, who was the face of the Nandigram movement that catapulted Mamata Bannerjee to power in 2011, sent his resignation letter to the chief minister by fax, which he then forwarded to governor Jagdeep Dhankhar by e-mail. “I do hereby tender my resignation from my office as Minister. Steps may be taken for its immediate acceptance. I am simultaneously by e-mail this to His Excellency-Governor of West Bengal, for doing the needful at his end,” Adhikari said in the resignation letter. “I thank you for giving me an opportunity to serve the people of the state, which I did all through with a commitment, dedication and sincerity,” he added. The BJP, which made impressive gains in the state in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections winning 18 seats, is going all out to dislodge the Mamata government in the upcoming assembly elections early next year. The state unit of the party was quick to reach out to the senior TMC leader. State BJP president Dilip Ghosh said the saffron party has its doors open for the heavyweight leader and many others. Adhikari’s resignation heralds the “end of Trinamool Congress”, he claimed and added that the party will “cease to exist”. “The exit of Suvendu Adhikari from TMC is only a matter of time. There are several leaders of the ruling party who are disgruntled with its way of functioning. We have kept our doors open,” Ghosh told reporters. In another development, disgruntled TMC MLA Mihir Goswami, who had expressed his desire to quit the party, on Friday left for New Delhi with BJP MP Nisith Pramanik, fuelling speculations over his next move. Several Trinamool leaders have left the party to join the BJP ahead of the assembly elections due next year. Sensing the anger within the party, Mamata has tried to reach out to the disgruntled leaders. At a rally earlier this week, Mamata said that the party will rectify the mistakes it has made. “I have been in politics all my life. Through my experience I can never claim that everybody is good. There may be one or two people who are not good, but we will set right those mistakes. The TMC will rectify if some mistakes have been committed,” Mamata said. “There can be misunderstanding or someone may be angry with some individuals, but please don’t misunderstand the party for that,” she appealed. Mamata also announced that she would look after both the administrative work and the party work from now on, amid reports that many leaders were not happy with the impportance being given to strategist Prashant Kishor and also her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, who is MP from Daimond Harbour. Adhikari was at odds with the party and had made his displeasure known by not attending cabinet or party meetings. He also stopped using Trinamool banners at his political meetings. Sources close to Adhikari said that he was unhappy with the organisational rejig effected a few months ago, including the increased stature of Mamata’s nephew within the party. His eventual loss from the party may be a big blow to the Trinamool as apart from his home district of East Midnapore, Adhikari has influence over at least 35-40 assembly segments that are in West Midnapore, Bankura, Purulia and Jhargram, and parts of Birbhum — the tribal-dominated Junglemahal region. Adhikari also resigned as the chairman of the Haldia Development Authority, the agency that oversees development works in the industrial town of Haldia and its adjoining areas in the East Midnapore district. On Wednesday, he had resigned as the chairman of the Hooghly River Bridge Commissioners (HRBC), which is the custodian of several bridges and flyovers of Kolkata, including the iconic Second Hooghly Bridge. Adhikari also shunned his Z-category security cover provided by the state government, sources said. MPs Sougata Roy and Sudip Bandopadhyay were deputed to talk to him and address the grievances, even as he continued to tour the state and lead rallies organised by his supporters but without the TMC’s banner, an unusual for the party. Reacting to the development, Roy said he was hopeful that Adhikari will continue to remain in the party as he has not given up its membership or resigned as an MLA. The senior party leader said that during the two meetings with Adhikari, he had a feeling that he does not want to leave the party. “We will talk to him,” Roy said. And it’s not just the BJP that poses a challenge to Mamata, Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen(AIMIM) has also announced to contest the 2021 assembly polls in Bengal. The TMC has called it a “communal force which acts as the B team of BJP”. Bengal has a considerable Muslim population and AIMIM may cut into the votes of Trinamool. The party which bagged five seats in the Bihar polls, seems to have cut big time into the opposition Mahagathbandhan vote share. (With inputs from agencies)

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'What About the Remaining 24?' TMC's Dig at BJP as Party Battles to Keep House in Order Amid Defections

‘What About the Remaining 24?’ TMC’s Dig at BJP as Party Battles to Keep House in Order Amid Defections

The Trinamool Congress, which is witnessing the return of turncoats from the BJP after the stunning electoral victory of Mamata Banerjee in the state polls, on Monday asked Bengal BJP if 50 MLAs had turned up to meet Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, “what happened to the remaining 24”? Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Rajya Sabha chief whip, the saffron party should “internally investigate” why all MLAs didn’t go…