President of India to Visit West Bengal

Four Day tour Starting tomorrow

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee will be travelling to West Bengal on a four-day visit beginning tomorrow i.e. September 14, 2012. 
This will be the President’s first visit to West Bengal after assumption of office. The President would reach the State capital, Kolkata tomorrow i.e. September 14, 2012 and would be accorded a civic reception in the evening at Netaji Indoor Stadium. He would be felicitated by the Governor and Chief Minister of West Bengal. The Mayor of Kolkata, Shri Sovan Chatterjee and Vice-Chancellor, Kolkata University would also speak on the occasion. The President would also be felicitated by five cultural personalities (Eminent artists : Supriya Debi, Sandhya Mukherjee, Dwijen Mukhopadhyay, Kalyani Kazi and Jogen Chowdhury), three representatives of Chamber of Commerce(CIL/FICCI/ASSOCHAM), and by the Mohan Bagan Sporting Club, East Bengal Club, Mohamedan Sporting Club and CAB. 

The next day, on September 15, the President will attend the culmination of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where Shri Shiv Nader, Chairman , Board of Governors, IIT Karagpur will declare the 58th Annual Convocation open. Four books will also be released by the Governor of West Bengal. The President would present the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa), Distinguished Alumnus Awards and Gold Medals. Among the dignitaries present on the occasion would be the Governor and Chief Minister of West Bengal, Union Minister of Civil Aviation, Shri Ajit Singh and Union Minister of Railways, Shri Mukul Roy. 

Thereafter, the President would go to the Netaji Research Bureau and visit Netaji’s Sitting Room and the Museum. In the evening, the President would be honoured in a felicitation ceremony by All Chambers of Commerce i.e. jointly by Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Bharat Chamber of Commerce, Merchants’ Chamber of Commerce and Oriental Chamber of Commerce. At night, a banquet will be hosted in honour of the President by the Governor of West Bengal. 

On September 16, the President will inaugurate the Sanjiban Hospital at Fuleswar, Howrah. Union Minister of State for Tourism, Shri Sultan Ahmed would also be present on the occasion. 

The President will return to New Delhi on September 17, 2012. (PIB)  13-September-2012 18:56 IST 

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A press conference on Wednesday, September 5,

Facts of "police raid"on Nazrul Islam’s book#Kolkata#censorship

Mamata Banerjee has done it again, this time against an IPS officer. The cop, Nazrul Islam, published a book titled Mushalmander Ki Karaniya (What Muslims Should Do) where he spoke about the alleged plight of the Muslims in West Bengal and how the Trinamool Congress-led state government was resorting to double standards in the name of 'improving' their condition.

A 102-page book written by senior police official Nazrul Islam seems to have ruffled a few feathers in the state administration. The police, on Friday, allegedly raided the College Street shop of Mitra Ghosh, the publisher of the book — Musalman der Koroniyo — written by the senior IPS officer and additional director general of police (training).

The present owner of the publishing house Sabitendranath Roy alleged that a huge force of police reached the College Street premises of his shop, locked the sale counters and searched for the book. He also complained that police had asked him to discontinue its circulation a day before.
The book was released a week back and got good response. On Thursday night, an 80-year-old Roy received a call from the deputy commissioner of police (enforcement branch) asking him to stop selling the book.

In the book, Nazrul has advocated the need for secular education and criticized the state government for not doing much to help spread education among the Muslims. "Though a lot has been said about the new government being an agent of change, nothing much has changed," Nazrul said in the book. He has criticized the leaders in the new government for attending Iftaar parties without keeping the mandatory daytime fast. "The words inshallah and khuda hafiz cannot be said in the same sentence, but our leaders are doing so, without knowing that they are actually hurting Islam," the book reads.

The police had no search warrant with them. We had already stopped the book's circulation and removed the copies from our College Street shop. We told them that the complimentary copies would be sent to them soon," said Indrani Roy, director of Mitra Ghosh.(Courtesy: kracktivist) 

A press conference has been called by publishers  to  voice our grievances against police 'raid'
Kolkata Press Club on
Wednesday, September 5,
Time- 5 pm