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EasternChroniWINDOW TO THE EAST cle WEATHERWATCH JOVENEL MOÏSE: POLICE CASH-DRIVEN INFORMAL ENGLAND REACH FINAL, beat Max 32°c kill four after Haiti’s president credit market reaches $500 bn Denmark 2-1 in extra time Min 27°c assassinated P 6 in India P 9 P 10 Humidity 82% VOL II, ISSUE 275 PUBLISHED SIMULTANEOUSLY FROM SILCHAR GUWAHATI KOLKATA PAGES: 10 epaper at: www.easternchronicle.net PRICE `5 FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2021 New Bengal ministers to mount TMC govt's performance better pressure on Mamata government AGENCIES "AS AMIT SHAH'S DEPUTY, HE WILL SURELY FOCUS than Left's: BJP's Ashok Lahiri KOLKATA: PM Narendra Modi ON LAW AND ORDER TO NOT ONLY EXPOSE BENGAL'S may have replaced party › AGENCIES old-timers with successful POOR LAW AND ORDER SITUATION BUT ALSO ENSURE LAHIRI, A WELL-KNOWN ECONOMIST WHO HAS SERVED AS THE professionals to improve gov- PROTECTION OF BJP WORKERS, MANY OF WHOM ARE KOLKATA: BJP MLA Ashok Lahiri CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, MADE ernment functioning at the LEAVING THE PARTY IN DROVES TO AVOID TRINAMOOL said on Thursday that the Tri- › Centre, but the four junior namool Congress government has THE COMMENT WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE OF PRESENT ministers chosen from West ATTACKS," SAID POLITICAL ANALYST ASHIS BISWAS. fared well in terms of the develop- FINANCE MINISTER AMIT MITRA AND HIS PREDECESSOR ASIM DASGUPTA. Bengal are likely to have ment of West Bengal as compared "THIS IS A VERY DIFFICULT QUESTION TO ANSWER. I KNOW BOTH OF one central agenda -- keep up attacks," said political analyst MP John Barla are both from to the previous Left Front govern- pressure on the state govern- Ashis Biswas. North Bengal, where the BJP ment. THEM SO WELL. BUT, I BELIEVE THAT WEST BENGAL IS DOING BETTER ment. He said BJP workers who did very well, is significant. Lahiri, a well-known economist UNDER THE PRESENT TRINAMOOL CONGRESS GOVERNMENT IN TERMS OF Junior Home Minister face much Trinamul aggres- Barla has already demand- who has served as the Chief Economic DEVELOPMENT," HE TOLD REPORTERS AT THE STATE ASSEMBLY. Nishith Pramanik has been sion are no longer happy with ed separation of North Bengal Advisor to the Government of India, very vocal over Bengal's post- promises -- they want effective and creation of a Ladakh-style made the comment when asked about government by CAG should also be over the dubious vaccination camps poll law and order, especially protection to be able to contin- Union Territory in the strate- the performance of present Finance BJP MLA Ashok Lahiri. done to reflect the real financial pic- case was not admitted by Speaker attacks on the BJP workers . ue in BJP. gic 'Siliguri corridor' below Minister Amit Mitra and his prede- It was Lahiri''s first day at the ture of the various departments, he Biman Banerjee. "As Amit Shah's deputy, "Pramanik has a job cut out Darjeeling , arguing the area cessor Asim Dasgupta. Assembly after winning the state said. Leader of Opposition Suvendu he will surely focus on law because as the country's jun- has suffered much despite its "This is a very difficult question elections from the Balurghat seat. The state government should also Adhikary said, "We did not boycott and order to not only expose ior Home Minister, he can put tea and tourism industry. to answer. I know both of them so Speaking on the state Budget in the divulge the details of the Centre- the meeting but remained absent Bengal's poor law and order pressure on state administra- "BJP may well plan a well. But, I believe that West Bengal House, he said the West Bengal gov- sponsored schemes which are in force since our adjournment motion was situation but also ensure pro- tion, specially police," Biswas Kashmir type break-up in is doing better under the present ernment has devised several welfare in West Bengal, Lahiri said. not admitted by the speaker. tection of BJP workers, many said. "And he will do it because Bengal to create its zone of Trinamool Congress government in schemes for the people but should Meanwhile, BJP skipped the We did it for the sake of the com- of whom are leaving the party he is aggressive." influence, like they did with terms of development," he told report- make the list of beneficiaries public. Business Advisory Committee meet- mon people. Everything should be in droves to avoid Trinamool That Pramanik and tea tribe Ladakh. Pg 5 ers at the state Assembly. Audit of the accounts of the state ing after their adjournment motion reciprocal." SPOTLIGHT RSS meet to begin at Tripura CPM offices Arunachal bars Mamata Banerjee 'incidental Chitrakoot from today non-vaccinated people Mizoram records NEW DELHI: Rashtriya Sway- torched soon after MP from entering state highest single-day amsevak Sangh chief Mohan spike of Covid cases beneficiary',quips Adhir Bhagwat would preside over ITANAGAR: The surge in Covid a four-day meeting of the or- Pratima takes oath cases has made Arunachal AIZAWL: Mizoram regis- AGENCIES sion for the benefit of his party. the threat and intimidation ganization's `pracharaks' (full- Pradesh decide on allowing the tered the highest single-day Talking about the prospects politics of the BJP leadership time workers) at Chitrakoot in AGENCIES THE CPIM ALSO entry of only vaccinated people spike of Covid-19 cases on KOLKATA: Senior Congress of a broader anti-BJP coalition only helped Mamata Banerjee. Madhya Pradesh from Friday. ALLEGED THAT AFTER into the state. Thursday since the relax- leader Adhir Ranjan Chow- ahead of the Lok Sabha polls in Without taking away the cred- It will discuss the Sangh volun- AGARTALA: Soon after MP Pra- › The decision was made follow- ation of lockdown on June dhury feels TMC supremo 2024, the leader of the Congress it for the fight she put up, I teers' response to the coronavirus tima Bhoumik appointed as THE TRIPURA BJP LEADER ing Union Home Secretary Ajay 30 in the state. Out of 548 Mamata Banerjee is an "in- party in the House, insists no would say she is an incidental pandemic and preparations to union minister of state and PRATIMA BHOUMIK WAS Kumar Bhalla’s videoconference people, 46 inmates of an or- cidental beneficiary" of the opposition front can succeed beneficiary in these elections," face a possible third wave among takes oath of office and secrecy with the chief secretaries of the phanage and rehabilitation highly polarised West Bengal without Congress' participation. Chowdhury said in an interview other things, said an RSS release in New Delhi, a party office of SWORN IN AS THE MINISTER states in the Northeast and the centre have tested positive assembly elections and not the "The elections in West Bengal to a national news agency. here on Thursday. opposition CPIM was ablaze in OF STATE OF THE MODI Union Territories on Wednesday. for the Covid-19 taking the "only anti-Modi face" capable this time were highly polarised Acknowledging that the "Every year this meeting is the late evening of Wednesday GOVERNMENT AT CENTER, “We are ensuring that anyone state’s tally to 22,703. of taking on the BJP in the on communal and regional iden- TMC's victory was "magnifi- held in July, but as it was not at Dhanpur and Bara Narayan willing to visit the state has to The state information and next Lok Sabha polls. tity. The people of the state who cent", the Congress veteran, held last year due to the corona- areas under Sonamura sub-di- HER PARTY WORKERS be vaccinated,” Chief Secretary public relations department Chowdhury also defends his did not want the BJP en masse however, said many regional virus situation in Chitrakoot, it vision of Tripura, 50 KMs STORMED THE CPIM OFFICE Naresh Kumar said. has issued an official state- frequent criticism of the TMC voted in favour of the TMC. opposition leaders had helmed is being held in the same town away from Agartala city. IN BARA NARAYAN. Till Wednesday, Arunachal ment wherein it is mentioned supremo, calling it the right deci- The communal rhetoric and their parties to... Pg 5 this time," Pg 5 Condemning the... Pg 5 recorded 38,283... Pg 5 that the single-day... Pg 5 Nagaland youth Murder accused killed Nisith Pramanik takes charge as Barla's elevation proves borrows gun to new MoS Home with Nityanand Rai BJP backs bifurcation of impress girl, held in police firing while AGENCIES was among the leaders who had Bengal: Trinamool Cong DIMAPUR: A 25-year-old Na- trying to escape jumped ship from the Trinamool galand youth from Dimapur NEW DELHI: West Bengal BJP to the BJP ahead of the Lok was arrested for alleged il- leader Nisith Pramanik, who Sabha polls in 2019. AGENCIES Prime Minister Narendra Modi legal possession of arms on AGENCIES Wednesday night. is serving his first term as a Born in Jalpaiguri in north as the Union Minister of State for Tuesday. Abdul Khaleque was arrested Member of Parliament after Bengal, Pramanik has a BCA KOLKATA: The Trinamool Con- Minority Affairs. The person was held GUWAHATI: Abdul Khaleque on charges of murdering Wahed winning from the Cooch Be- degree and was an assistant gress on Thursday alleged that "The decision to elevate John for illegal possession of a was arrested on charges of Ali, a home guard posted at har Lok Sabha seat in 2019, on teacher in a primary school. the elevation of Alipurduar Barla as Union minister proves .22 caliber with three live murdering Wahed Ali, a home Bijni police station, on Tuesday Thursday took charge as new Pramanik was one of the MP John Barla as Union min- that the BJP supports his state- rounds of ammunition from guard posted at Bijni police evening.