Kolkata: Springing a surprise just before the Election Commission (EC) sounded Assembly poll bugle in West Bengal on Sunday, chief minister Mamata Banerjee announced the immediate release of much-awaited dearness allowance (DA) arrears to her government employees and a ₹500 monthly allowance-hike for priests and muzzeins to pull their votes. The Trinamul Congress supremo’s masterstroke

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West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday hiked the dearness allowance (DA) for state government employees and increased the monthly honorariums for mosque muezzins and Hindu priests barely an hour before the Election Commission announced the assembly poll schedule. Mamata Banerjee raises DA arrears for Bengal government staff and increases honorariums for priests and

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