Cyclone Jawad:
A round-the-clock control room has been opened at Nabanna that is keeping constant touch with the control rooms opened at BDO, SDO and District Magistrate offices in the coastal districts.
Adequate relief materials, including rice, tarpaulin, garments and blankets have been kept ready at vulnerable areas. Employees of all concerned departments, including Power, Public Works Department (PWD), Public Health Engineering (PHE), Health and Agriculture in these districts have been directed to be alert. Harvester machines have been deployed to harvest paddy by Thursday night.
The 16 teams of NDRF are getting deployed at Sandeshkhali (two teams) in North 24-Parganas, Kakdwip (one team) in South 24-Parganas, Digha and Contai (one team each) in East Midnapore, Kharagpur and Ghatal (one team each) in West Midnapore, Jhargram (one team), East Burdwan (one team), Arambagh in Hooghly (one team), Howrah (one team), Behrampore (one team) in Murshidabad, Malda (one team), Kolkata (two teams) and Nadia (two teams).
NRDF teams at eight locations have already reached and the remaining teams would reach by Friday.
The South Eastern Railway (SER) and the Eastern Railway (ER) have decided to cancel a few trains as safety precautions. SER has cancelled 49 trains between December 2 and December 4. These trains include 18105 Rourkela Puri which will remain cancelled for two consecutive days — December 3 and December 4.
more than 90% elections in last 10 years,” Kishor had tweeted.
“Let opposition leadership be decided Democratically,” he added.
Kishor and his I-PAC team have been working for the Trinamool Congress since the Assembly polls in West Bengal and are working on devising strategies in expanding the party nationally.
His remarks come at a time the TMC has made a conscious effort to not follow Congress' leadership of the Opposition in Parliament and questioned the party's ability to take on the BJP.
Kishor had taken potshots at the Congress two months ago as well, saying those looking for a quick revival of the Opposition led by the grand old party following the Lakhimpur Kheri incident are in for a big disappointment as there are no quick-fix solutions to its “deep-rooted problems”.
On Wednesday, TMC chief Banerjee met NCP supremo Sharad Pawar in Mumbai and called for fighting the BJP unitedly while taking barely veiled swipes at the Congress leadership.
While Banerjee made remarks like “there is no UPA now” and one cannot achieve anything by staying abroad “most of the time”, Pawar said leadership was not an issue at present and all like-minded parties were welcome to join the fight against the BJP.
Interacting with members of civil society, Banerjee claimed she had suggested to the Congress that an advisory council of prominent personalities from civil society be set up to give a direction to the opposition but it was “in vain”.
If all “regional parties come together”, it would be easy to defeat the BJP, she said.
The TMC has inducted several Congress leaders into its fold. Recently, 12 out of 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya defected to the party.
industrialist comes when she has announced to make Bengal number one in industry and commerce and introduced a series of new industryfriendly policies to attract more investments to the state.
Banerjee on Thursday returned from Mumbai where she attended the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) meeting and urged industrialists to “invest in Bengal without fear” as militant trade unionism is a matter of the past and it is now the ideal destination for investment.