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 has recorded another major milestone in public healthcare, with its telemedicine network crossing the milestone of seven crore consultations, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced on Monday.
Surpassing expectations in Bihar elections, the BJP is shifting focus to West Bengal with a recalibrated strategy boosted by organisational strength and a targeted campaign against the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) on law and order, women’s safety, and migration issues.
With the series of Pramukh Nagarik Sammelan (PNS) programmes nearing completion in West Bengal and Sikkim, RSS Sarsanghchalak Dr Mohan Bhagwat is likely to visit a few places in West Bengal, particularly Kolkata, next month, RSS sources said on Monday.
The CPI(ML) Liberation on Monday underlined the “urgent need” for a Left resurgence in West Bengal to counter what it described as the BJP’s “communal aggression” and the Trinamul Congress’s “corruption and authoritarianism.”
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already signalled that West Bengal is the next electoral target, setting up a direct challenge to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
