The Dr KJ Yesudas Achievement Award celebrates the exceptional contributions of seven prominent playback singers, including Hemlata, Udit Narayan, Suresh Wadkar, Anup Jalota, Shabbir Kumar, Shailendra Singh, and Babul Supriyo.
In a post on the X platform, the Bhojpuri singer-actor thanked the BJP leadership for the nomination but expressed inability to contest the polls
TMC leader Babul Supriyo garnered 51,199 votes against CPI(M) leader Saira Shah Halim's 30,971 votes.
Sinha is the TMC candidate for the Asansol Lok Sabha seat by-election and Supriyo has been fielded from the Ballygunge assembly segment
"My heart is heavy as I had began my political career with the BJP. I thank the PM, party chief, and Amit Shah. They showed confidence in me. I had left politics wholeheartedly. I thought that if I am not a part of the party, I should not keep any seat for myself," he said after meeting Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.
In an tweet Babul Suriyo tweeted from his official twitter that "Sincere Gratitude to Hon'ble Speaker Sir Om Birla for granting me his time tomorrow at 11 am to formally resign as a MP. I will not hold on to the Berth/Perks/Salary of a MP now that I am no longer a part of BJP that I won the seat for. If I have it in me, will win it again".
In a tweet, the former union minister on Monday thanked Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla for granting him appointment to resign as Lok Sabha MP.
Babul Supriyo, who joined the Trinamool Congress last week, told PTI in an interview that his view on the matter may not have been liked by the BJP's top brass.
From about six-seven commandos, Supriyo will now be guarded by two armed personnel during travel.
Babul Supriyo was welcomed into the party in the presence of TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and TMC MP Derek O’Brien.
Supriyo, who had held several portfolios as MOS in the Narendra Modi government since 2014, was removed earlier this month during a major cabinet reshuffle.
Babul Supriyo may not have achieved much as a junior minister and his loss in the West Bengal assembly elections may have only eroded the glamour-loving politician’s standing in the party
BJP's Babul Supriyo said in a now-deleted Facebook post that he will neither congratulate Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee nor does he want to say that he respects the “people’s verdict”.
Central Minister Babul Supriyo has lost from the Tollygunge assembly constituency, being defeated by veteran TMC leader and current West Bengal Public Works and Youth Affairs Minister Aroop Biswas. Two other incumbent BJP MPs, Locket Chatterjee and Swapan Dasgupta has lost from the Chunchura and Tarakeshwar constituency.
Bengal Assembly Election Result 2021 | Tollygunge constituency: BJP MP Babul Supriyo had challenged TMC veteran Aroop Biswas in this high-stake electoral contest.
Two MPs of the BJP are also in the fray for the April 10 poll when elections will be held in 44 seats covering Cooch Behar and Alipurduar districts in north Bengal and parts of South 24 Parganas, Howrah and Hoogly in the southern part of the state.
Babul Supriyo, Minister of State for Environment, Forest & Climate Change, on the upcoming West Bengal elections, why BJP has not named a CM candidate, Mamata, Trinamool, and more.
For the 2021 West Bengal Assembly polls, the saffron party has fielded Union Minister Babul Supriyo from Tollygunge, Swapan Dasgupta from Tarakeswar, and Ashok Lahiri from Alipurduar.
Supriyo, who had been criticising the CM in a series of posts on his Twitter handle on issues ranging from supply of testing kits to the state to alleged loot in ration items, on Saturday tweeted that by opening the Howrah flower market "the CM is endangering public safety and this reflects the dangerous state of affairs in West Bengal."
Taking a jibe at PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi had said, "give up hatred, not social media accounts."
Supriyo made certain remarks, which the Speaker immediately expunged from records, against Chowdhury and there were also protests from Congress members over the minister's remarks.
Recounting the conversation, The Telegraph editor R Rajagopal said Supriyo misconstrued his categorical assertion as arrogance and reminded him that he was speaking to a “central minister”
ABVP had taken out a rally to protest against the September 19 attack on Union Minister Babul Supriyo on the university campus
Supriyo also claimed that the protesting students tried to "provoke him by openly calling themselves naxals".
The Trinamool Congress has fielded actress and 'giant slayer' Moon Moon Sen in Asansol, the seat of BJP's playback singer-turned-politician Babul Supriyo