Signature controversy: TMC’s Sovondeb releases meeting documents
According to the documents made public by Chattopadhyay, 67 MLAs attended the 6 May meeting at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street.
According to the documents made public by Chattopadhyay, 67 MLAs attended the 6 May meeting at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street.
The INDIA bloc suffered a mega setback after the assembly elections as two of its major political parties, the TMC and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), suffered electoral setbacks in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively.
The Trinamul Congress (TMC) on Friday announced a major organisational overhaul at its national working committee meeting held at the party headquarters in Kalighat, appointing senior minister Chandrima Bhattacharya as the new president of the West Bengal Pradesh Trinamul Congress.
It's official now, the Trinamul Congress (TMC) party has split, with the majority of 59 out of 80 MLAs opting out of the party founded and led by Mamata Banerjee.
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.
West Bengal unit Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president and Rajya Sabha member Samik Bhattacharya on Wednesday dropped a subtle hint towards projecting the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, as the chief ministerial face for the Assembly elections scheduled to be held next year.
Amid the exclusion of 58,20,899 voters' names in the draft voters' list in West Bengal published on December 16 -- thus marking the completion of the first stage of the three-stage Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in the state
MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Wednesday backed the remarks of TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee defending the Bengal government after chaos erupted at Lionel Messi's event in Kolkata, stating that he was only highlighting the Bhartiya Janata Party's non-accountability and hypocrisy.
A state BJP committee member said that recently, the Central leadership of the party had cautioned the state leaders to refrain from quoting any figure that predicted any number of voters' names to be deleted, and hence, the LoP too cautiously avoided predicting any figure on this count.
After 155 years of its composition, the poem rocked Parliament last week while observing 150 years of its adaptation when the ruling NDA demanded inclusion of the full text as the national song.
