The resignation of Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Sukendu Sekhar Roy on Monday has ignited intense political speculation in West Bengal, raising questions about potential shifts within the state and at the national level.
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.
The name of councillor Ashok Rudra, along with those of his family members, is missing from the 2002 voters’ list of the Hirapur Assembly constituency (now Asansol South), he alleged. Mr Rudra is the councillor of Ward No.
In a remarkable display of adventure, discipline and national pride, sixty spirited Naval NCC Cadets from the West Bengal & Sikkim Directorate set sail on an inspiring expedition from Farakka to Kolkata on Wednesday.
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday levelled serious allegations against the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), accusing it of “illegally and unethically” distributing birth certificates to suspicious individuals in a bid to influence the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls.
Justice Debangshu Basak, the ‘lead judge’ or a ‘senior judge’ of a Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court hearing the RG Kar rape and murder case, on Thursday, recused from hearing the matter.
The modalities for the formation of the new state committee of the BJP in West Bengal are at the final stage, and the announcement of the new panel is expected to be made by the end of next week.
