Bengal ration scam case: ED searches houses of ex-minister Jyotipriya Mallick’s aide | Kolkata News

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted search operations at 10 locations across West Bengal, including properties linked to former minister Jyotipriya Mallick’s aide Barik Biswas, in connection with a case related to alleged corruption in ration distribution. Biswas is a rice mill owner allegedly close to Mallick, the former West Bengal food minister arrested by the ED in November 2023. As per sources, ED officials conducted searches at Biswas’s house in Basirhat and apartment in Rajarhat early Tuesday morning. The ED is investigating if there is any connection between…

Seen as Nitish Kumar’s ‘possible successor’, who is Manish Verma: IAS to JD(U) supremo’s aide to party fold | Political Pulse News

Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) supremo Nitish Kumar’s advisor and former IAS officer Manish Verma, 50, formally joined the JD(U) on Tuesday. A 2000-batch Odisha-cadre IAS officer and former Patna district magistrate, Verma had taken voluntary retirement (VRS) in 2018, reportedly on the advice of Nitish. He has since been working as a close aide of the CM. There has been a lot of buzz around Verma’s entry into the JD (U) amid the possibility of him being groomed as the party’s future leader. Verma, who had been…

Mumbai hit-and-run: Shiv Sena leader in spotlight is long-time Shinde aide, businessman | Political Pulse News

WITH HIS son Mihir on the run after alleged involvement in a hit-and-run death in Mumbai, and his party head Eknath Shinde promising strict action, heat is rising on Rajesh Shah, a local-level Shiv Sena leader. On Sunday, Rajesh, the deputy leader of the Shiv Sena’s Palghar unit and a former district chief of the party, was arrested by the Mumbai Police along with his driver, Rajrishi Bidawat, on charges of destroying evidence. The BMW car involved in the case belongs to Rajesh. A businessman dealing in scrap and supplier…