TMC’s oppression surpassed those of British: Suvendu at Bankura’s Hul festival
"It's shocking that in 2025-26, the previous government allocated a meagre Rs 6 crore for the entire 75 blocks of Junglemahal districts," Suvendu Adhikari said.
"It's shocking that in 2025-26, the previous government allocated a meagre Rs 6 crore for the entire 75 blocks of Junglemahal districts," Suvendu Adhikari said.
The remarks came as the Assembly passed the West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order (Amendment) Bill, 2026, and the West Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-Social Activities Bill, 2026.
In 2022, TMC delegates voted to make Mamata Banerjee chairperson for life. The rebel faction replaced her with Arup Roy on June 22 without convening a single conference. Four police complaints followed within a day.
The TMC is fighting a civil war. Fifty-eight MLAs on one side, Mamata Banerjee on the other. Now one of her loyalists says the BJP government is picking winners through selective arrests. The Taratala case is the latest flashpoint.
The political developments gathered pace on Monday when senior leaders, including Firhad Hakim and Aroop Biswas, were seen in the special session of the rival faction at a five star hotel in the eastern fringes of the city.
With weather conditions improving, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has decided to fly from Kolkata to Kazi Nazrul Islam Airport (KNI) at Andal this evening for her election campaign in south Bengal districts, which resumes tomorrow.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the BJP’s chief strategist for the West Bengal Assembly elections, will return to the state on Saturday to release a “chargesheet” against the government led by Mamata Banerjee.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had a tense mid-air experience on Thursday evening after her aircraft was unable to land at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport due to inclement weather, forcing it to circle in the sky for nearly one and a half hours.
Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee is set to launch her North Bengal election campaign from Wednesday with a high-stakes tour of key constituencies, even as she mounted a blistering attack on the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging bias and attempts to undermine voters’ rights.
“If the CM barges into an ED investigation, your idea of remedy for the ED is to go to the state government which is headed by the CM and inform them about it and seek remedy?” the bench said, when advocate Sibal argued that the agency had remedies other than moving a writ petition under Article 32.
