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BJP Raiganj MLA Krishna Kalyani quit the party on Friday, taking away the gains the saffron party had made in Uttar Dinajpur in the assembly polls. Kalyani’s resignation came days after the other BJP MLA from the district, Soumen Roy from Kaliyaganj, switched over to Trinamool. Like others, Kalyani, too, is set to join TMC.

Four fresh faces from West Bengal made it to the Union cabinet in the reshuffle on Wednesday, sending indications that BJP hadn’t lost focus on the state.

A controversy broke out over PM Narendra Modi’s visit to Kalaikunda for a review of Cyclone Yaas, with BJP and central government officials saying Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee virtually skipped the meeting after placing some papers in Modi’s hands, saying she had other engagements. The CM, however, said, “I told the PM to ‘please do whatever you feel is needed’ before taking his permission to leave."

Former Union minister and Asansol MP Babul Supriyo, who had been vocal against Trinamool Congress’s alleged “atrocities” till recently, didn’t attend a dharna on the issue held by Bengal BJP MPs on Wednesday.

The immediate task awaiting Irani’s attention include tackling the malnutrition problem through the BJP-led NDA’s flagship programme the National Nutrition Mission. She will also have to take the opposition along and build momentum in favour of the anti-trafficking legislation.

Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday inaugurated Phoolbagan station of Kolkata Metro's east-west corridor. Goyal via video link flagged off the first train from the newly inaugurated Phoolbgan station.

Ahead of Union Cabinet reshuffle and expansion, 12 Union Ministers including Ravi Shankar Prasad, Dr. Harsh Vardhan, Prakash Javadekar and D.V. Sadananda Gowda have resigned from their posts of Council of Ministers.

Senior BJP leader Mukul Roy said over 89 persons with links to his party have been killed in the state since panchayat elections were held there in 2018 and over 35 of them have been murdered after the announcement of Lok Sabha election results in May this year

Results of the Kolkata Dakshin Lok Sabha constituency in West Bengal, known as Kolkata South, to be announced today after Phase 7 of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

Among three women ministers of state, Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti has been inducted into the council of ministers for the second time. She had served as minister of state for food processing in the last term. The other two women assigned MoS rank — Renuka Singh Saruta and debasree chaudhuri — are both first time MPs. Chaudhuri won from Raiganj constituency in West Bengal and Saruta from Sarguja in Chhattisgarh.

A Kolkata youth, working in the UK and coming back home to perform last rites of his father, got stranded at the New Delhi airport after the new norms for institutional quarantine were put in place. Desperate to make it to his father’s Shraddh, Souravan Roy, a resident of Patuli in Kolkata, has approached the Delhi state government and the Union minister debasree chaudhuri, to help him reach home soon.

Ahead of the reshuffle, several ministers, including Union health minister Harsh Vardhan and education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal, resigned from the Cabinet.

Sensing anger among the party's rank and file over the fact that only two of the 18 West Bengal MPs got ministerial berths, state BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Friday said more parliamentarians will be made ministers in future.

JD(U) Rajya Sabha MP Ram Chandra Prasad Singh on Wednesday was administered oath as Union minister. Swearing-in ceremony of new ministers as part of the first Union Cabinet expansion, after Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to power for a second term in May 2019, is underway.