Prime Minister Narendra Modi was visibly emotional today as he spoke about those who had died due to COVID-19. The government has asked Twitter to remove "manipulated media" tags for tweets on an alleged "Congress toolkit" to discredit Covid efforts, sources said today. Mamata Banerjee, whose party swept the West Bengal election but lost her own contest in Nandigram, is set to return to the seat she gave up in favour of challenging her former aide Suvendu Adhikari in his stronghold. The Trinamool Congress MLA who won from Bhawanipore, Shobhandeb Chattopadhyay, resigned from the Bengal assembly this afternoon to enable his party boss to contest from the seat. He will continue as state Agriculture Minister for six months, during which time he will contest from another seat to return to the assembly.
