NEW DELHI: TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday defended his actions days after a scuffle broke out between him and BJP’s Abhijit Gangopadhyay during the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting on the Waqf Bill. Banerjee smashed a glass bottle and hurled it towards the committee’s chairperson, BJP MP Jagdambika Pal, injuring himself in the process. Banerjee…
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Election Commission on Tuesday censured BJP neta and former Calcutta HC judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay for his “low-level personal attack” on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and debarred him from campaigning for 24 hours from 5 pm on Tuesday.In a strongly-worded order, EC said the BJP candidate’s statement was a “direct affront on the…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress dashed off a complaint to Election Commission against BJP‘s Tamluk candidate and ex-high court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Thursday over what it said were “unbelievably disparaging and misogynistic” remarks in public against Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, including asking what her “price” was and whether she was “a woman at all”.“Trinamool says (BJP’s…
