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Supreme Court reserves order on ED's plea for a CBI probe against Mamata Banerjee
The Supreme Court on Thursday reserved its order on the ED's petition seeking an FIR and a CBI investigation against former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and senior police officers over alleged obstruction of its search at the I-PAC office in Kolkata.
Adhikari says 275 MLAs would back him in a floor test. Sixty-four of them, he says, are TMC's
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari claimed on Wednesday that the BJP would muster the support of 275 MLAs in the 294-member Assembly if a floor test were held, saying 64 legislators elected on Trinamool Congress tickets were ready to vote with him. The BJP has 209 MLAs; the Opposition called the claim proof of defection engineering.
Congress candidate gets relief as Calcutta HC extends Nandigram bail to November 25
The Calcutta High Court extended the interim bail of Milan Pradhan, the Congress candidate in the recent Nandigram bypoll, till November 25. Separately, Mamata Banerjee called the extension of CJP leaders' custody 'state-sponsored terrorism'.
INDIA bloc doors: Congress cold to YSRCP, Mamata wants a wider tent
The Congress has ruled out the YSR Congress Party's entry into the INDIA bloc, citing its past support for the BJP, even as the CPI(M) welcomed Jagan Mohan Reddy's stand on electoral issues and the Trinamool Congress said the alliance should be widened to include more parties.