The Trinamul Congress-led Memari Municipality effectively collapsed on Monday after 10 of its 15 TMC councillors, including the Chairman, submitted resignation letters to the Executive Officer.
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.
On the day the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls began across West Bengal, one person allegedly committed suicide due to the fear of the exercise.
Kolkata loves to mythologise its own pluralism; yet here, in the diminishing footprint of India’s Chinese-origin community, “Desi-Chinese” is not branding rhetoric but the residual articulation of a lived history embedded into quotidian food practice.
Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday launched a blistering attack on both the Election Commission and the Bharatiya Janata Party from a rally in Kolkata, describing the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls as a “conspiracy to snatch away citizens’ democratic rights.”
The state BJP leadership launched a blistering attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Trinamul Congress (TMC) for organising a massive rally in Kolkata on Tuesday to protest against the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.
The secretary of a private missionary residential school in Purulia and local TMC leader Jagannath Mahata has been arrested by Kenda police in connection with the suicide of a Class IX student, Shambhu Kumbhakar, in the hostel room.
