Mamata may induct new faces in cabinet
Kolkata: Days after she pulled up “non-performing” Ministers, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee may induct some new faces when she undertakes a rejig of her Council of Ministers on Thursday. Veteran Congress legislator Ajoy Dey, fellow party legislator Soumitra Khan, and lone Samajwadi Party lawmaker Chand Mohammad — all who recently defected to the ruling Trinamool Congress — are among those eyeing ministerial berths.
Bachchan-Thackeray patch-up, SP upset
Mumbai: The Samajwadi Party State unit has criticised the recent patch-up between Bollywood mega-star Amitabh Bachchan and Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray on Wednesday. “Is this Amitabh Bachchan’s friendship with Raj Thackeray or treachery with north IndiansIJ” screamed a banner put up by SP. Samajwadi Party’s State chief and legislator Abu Asim Azmi said it was surprising that Bachchan again befriended Raj Thackeray, who through his MNS has made north Indians’ life miserable in
the State.
AAP leader to visit Amethi tomorrow
lucknow: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas would be visiting Amethi, the parliamentary constituency of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, December 27, party leaders said on Wednesday. Sources said Vishwas, whose name has been doing the rounds as AAP’s probable candidate to take on the Gandhi scion in the 2014 lS polls, would be participating in the ‘Jhadu Sandesh Yatra’ and would feel the “political situation
in the constituency”.
Gunfight in Kashmir’s budgam district
Srinagar: A gunfight erupted on Wednesday evening between guerrillas holed-up in a house and security forces in central Kashmir’s Budgam district, police said. A senior police officer said that
security forces, on a tip-off, surrounded a house in Hushroo village of Budgam district on Wednesday afternoon.