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.
State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya on Saturday said that the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections would be the last election of chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s political career.
A minor boy, Sheikh Reyan (10), a resident of Mayapur, under Arambagh 1 Gram Panchayat, went missing on Thursday evening. After an intensive search, the police recovered his body, wrapped in a blanket, from the house of a man who had been absconding — Sheikh Ramjan Ali, a local resident.
On the birth anniversary of Birsa Munda as India celebrated Birsa Munda Jayanti, both Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee paid respects to the iconic tribal leader.
The trend of the results of the Bihar Assembly polls showing a thumping majority for the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) seems to have provided BJP leaders in West Bengal with extra oxygen for the crucial forthcoming Assembly elections in the state.
The resounding victory of the NDA in Bihar has sent a “clear political message for eastern India,” indicating that West Bengal could emerge as the next major centre of political change, West Bengal BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya said on Friday.
