Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday likened the escalating turmoil within the Trinamul Congress to the political rebellion that split Maharashtra’s Shiv Sena, alleging that an “Eknath Shinde model” was unfolding in Bengal as a fraction of rebel legislators challenged the party leadership.
Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has flagged rising community unrest in Murshidabad following Bengal's new animal slaughter guidelines.
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is contesting the West Bengal Assembly elections 2026 from the Baharampur seat against BJP's Subrata Maitra and TMC's Naru Gopal Mukherjee.
The Congress is likely to bank on veteran leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury to regain lost ground in West Bengal, with strong indications that he may be fielded from the Baharampur Assembly constituency in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly Election 2026.
Janata Unnayan Party founder Humayun Kabir on Saturday said he regretted his role in his earlier party, Trinamul Congress, where he helped the TMC in defeating senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. He called it his “biggest blunder” of his career.
Chowdhury’s letter to the Prime Minister comes at a time when the Trinamool Congress and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had already started a full-fledged campaign against the BJP on the same issue.
Senior Congress leader and five-time former party Lok Sabha member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, on Thursday, demanded the strongest possible action against Pakistan following the terror attack in Kashmir’s Pahalgam, saying that the Modi-led government should consider attacking Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK).
As Murshidabad turned into a flashpoint of unrest following violent protests against the Waqf Act, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has decided to send a team to investigate alleged human rights violations in the district, according to sources.
The current political situation in West Bengal is ideal for breeding illegal immigration from Bangladesh and terror-related activities, veteran Congress leader and five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Saturday.
I have never learned to compromise with injustice, and I never will, senior Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote on Facebook last night.
