Mamata felicitates state board toppers
Kolkata, June 11: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee felicitated the rank holders of the secondary and higher secondary education boards here on Monday.
"It is not easy to be a part of the merit list. It's your awareness, knowledge, intellect and power that has led you towards a new path of success.
"Some of you will be doctors, engineers, professors, scientist and some will opt for other fields. Nowadays there is a lot scope," Banerjee told the toppers of the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education (WBBSE) and the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education (WBCHS).
Talking about opportunities in the state, the Chief Minister mentioned that 22 new universities and around 47 colleges have come up in her tenure. There are six more universities in the pipeline.
Also, seven medical colleges have been built and 13 more are under construction.
"The seats in the medical colleges have been increased. I think there should be more seats. But it is not easy to become a doctor, it requires a lot of hard work," she said.
One needs to work hard in every field -- be it science or arts, she said pointing to WBCHS topper Granthan Sengupta who secured 99.2 per cent in the Arts Department.
Banerjee congratulated Sanjibani Debnath, the topper of WBBSE Class 10 exam and all other rank holders. She eventually read out the names of the toppers including Sirshendu Saha and Mayurakshi Sarkar and other top ten rank holders.
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We are together at home: Sharad Pawar on Ajit Pawar
Mumbai (PTI): Former Union minister Sharad Pawar on Monday said that he and nephew Ajit Pawar are together as a family, but made it clear that the latter was heading a different political party.
“Gharat tari ekatrach ahet (we are together at home least),” the veteran politician said at a press conference at Chiplun in coastal Konkan region.
He was responding to a query about the demand from “various quarters in the state” that the uncle-nephew duo should come together once again.
In July last year, Ajit Pawar broke away from his uncle to join the Eknath Shinde-led government in the state as deputy chief minister. Of late, there has been speculation over his continuation in the ruling alliance.
Asked about Ajit Pawar’s recent remarks the decision to make his wife Sunetra Pawar contest the Lok Sabha polls against Supriya Sule in Baramati was a mistake, the veteran politician said, “He is in a different party. Why should we comment on decisions taken by another party?”
Asked if the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance of NCP (SP), Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) had decided its chef ministerial face, Pawar said, “I don’t think that it is an urgent issue at the moment”.
When elections were held after the Emergency, Morarji Desai’s name as PM candidate was not disclosed before polling, he added.
“Our (MVA) attempt is to give a progressive alternative in Maharashtra with help of other parties like Samajwadi Party and Peasants and Workers Party,” he said.
“Our observation is that the people of Maharashtra have made up their mind to give us (MVA) a chance in the ensuing elections,” he said.
Asked about Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu’s claim that sub-standard ghee with 'animal fat' was used to make prasad laddoos at Tirupati temple during Jaganmohan Reddy's tenure as CM, Pawar said, “If anything was mixed, it is very wrong and action should be taken against those involved”.
