Mamata Banerjee Hints At Expanding Trinamool; Varanasi, Mumbai Visits Soon
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Mamata Banerjee said that she is open to extending help to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav if he seeks her party's help ahead of the UP polls next year.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who met Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, indicated that expansion plans are underway for her party - Trinamool Congress, with trips to PM Modi's constituency Varanasi and Mumbai already planned.
Speaking to reporters after meeting PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee said that she raised the issue of the Border Security Force's territorial jurisdiction in West Bengal, demanding that it be withdrawn.
"Giving more powers to the BSF leads to a confrontation in law and order with the state police. We are not against the BSF. It is not right to disturb the federal structure without any reason," she said.
The chief minister also said that she has invited the prime minister to inaugurate the Global Business Summit which will be held in the state next year.
Jharkhand assembly election results 2024: "All of you know it is a hard-won victory after the battle between INDIA and the NDA," Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren said
Election Results 2024: Introduced in 2013 following a Supreme Court directive, NOTA offers voters an option to reject all candidates while maintaining ballot secrecy.
PM Modi also offered the Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha congratulations for their win in the election in that state.
However, Salman who got married on Friday night will miss his own wedding reception, scheduled for November 26 in Meerut, due to the district ban imposed just a day before the 'nikah' (wedding).
Maharashtra Election Results 2024: The rebel faction of Eknath Shinde, which has pitched the electoral battle as an acid test of "who is the real Shiv Sena" has lost no time to announce it as an ideological victory.
Meanwhile, as the dust settles after the counting of votes, the identity of the victor of the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election is settled, and the focus now will be on the next Chief Minister.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in January and released on bail in June.
Jharkhand Elections Results 2024: JMM chief Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana are parents to two boys. Sharing a picture of his two sons, he wrote, "My strength."
Overall, the BJP has not only retained the three seats it won in 2022 but also flipped two others - Kundarki and Katehari - while also picking up a sixth from allies NISHAD Party.
Fahad Ahmed, a candidate of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP faction, is currently trailing Sana Malik, nominee of Ajit Pawar's NCP, by over 3,000 votes and the counting is nearing completion.
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance, which includes the Shinde Sena and Ajit Pawar's NCP, is en route to a thumping win in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election, thanks to its two smaller allies.