Mamata justifies RTI Act stressing the need for transparency

West Bengal's State Election Commission on Monday wrote to the state government seeking clarification about its unilateral announcement of the upcoming rural body polls, even as confrontation loomed l...

While on the one hand the Mamata Banerjee administration locked horns with the State Election Commission at Calcutta High Court, her Trinamool Congress took the protests against the SEC to the streets. Left Front leaders, too, held agitations in the city and ...

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has rejected the State Election Commission's demand for 1.49 lakh security forces for the first phase of panchayat polls scheduled next month, saying the state did not have requisite forces at its disposal. "You are saying that ...

The Mamata Banerjee government's missive to the State Election Commission on Monday declining its proposal to reconsider the grouping of districts for the three-phase panchayat polls has buried hopes of a consensus.

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday came out in support of the Central Information Commission (CIC) order on bringing political parties under the RTI ambit. "Political parties should function in a transparent manner and the public has the ...

Mamata Banerjee. Agencies. According to Election Commission sources, the TMC is leading in six out of seven Assembly segments. The TMC candidate has polled 2,41,382 votes, CPI(M)?s Sridip Bhattacherjee 2,18,458 votes and Congress? Sanatan Mukherjee ...

West Bengal Home Secretary Basudeb Banerjee will meet the State Election Commission to discuss security arrangements during the Panchayat polls. In an earlier meeting last week, the Commission met with the superintendents of police and district magistrates of ...

Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has apologised to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the unruly mob behaviour outside his office targeting her and her Cabinet colleagues and said steps need to be taken to avoid such ...

The way West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee was ambushed by Left activists outside the Planning Commissions office in New Delhi is regrettable. Equally appalling is the retaliation by Trinamul Congress workers who attacked CPI(M) offices across West ...