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.
He remarked that India’s democratic traditions have long been admired for maintaining dignity and civility even in the face of political differences, and warned that any departure from these norms undermines the spirit of constitutional institutions.
A Lok Sabha reply says the Centre is awaiting West Bengal’s labour budget proposal under MGNREGA, sparking a political exchange after BJP leader Amit Malviya cited the document.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had moved out of her sit-in protest site in Esplanade in the evening to meet the outgoing Governor of West Bengal CV Ananda Bose.
Labour minister Moloy Ghatak inaugurated the first state-owned stray dog shelter in the Bagbandi area of Kalipahari, on the outskirts of Asansol in West Burdwan district.
Banerjee directly addressed CEC Kumar and said that his "might" would last only till May and after that he will have to fall to the feet of public.
