In Brief

Will keep demanding early polls: Mamata

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has said that her party will step up its demand for early assembly elections in Bengal,“where no governance worth the name exists”.

“Every day,I will keep demanding early Assembly polls in the state,” Banerjee told a Bengali TV channel.

However,making it clear that she was not demanding application of Article 356 in the state,the Railways Minister leader reiterated that elections in the state could be held along with the Assembly polls in Bihar in October.

Claiming that the longer the ruling Left Front clung to power the more ruin the state faced at its hands,she said: “People have given their verdict on Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee government.”

No decisions minus our nod: Trinamool to KMC

A delegation of Trinamool Congress’s new councillors led by former mayor Subrata Mukherjee met Alapan Bandopadhyay,secretary,Department of Urban Development,on Friday and demanded that henceforth all decisions taken by the civic body must have their concurrence. “We have given the names of some senior councillors to the officer and told him that the outgoing board should consult them before taking any policy decision,” said Mukherjee.

Mamata sets up panel for Bidhan Nagar Municipality

Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee announced the formation of an expert committee for the Bidhan Nagar Municipality. Debabarata Banerjee,a former IAS officer,has been made chairman of the committee set up as an advisory of the municipality. It is significant that Banerjee included four retired IPS officers H A Safi,Rachpal Singh,Sultan Singh and Upen Biswash in the committee.