TMC 2.0 is born, but will it find a place in the Sun?
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.
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.
Speculation is rife in the national capital that West Bengal could soon witness a political upheaval similar to the Maharashtra model? There are indications that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) might face an internal divide the way Shiv Sena underwent a split in 2022.
West Bengal BJP president and Rajya Sabha MP Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamul Congress (TMC), describing its 15-year rule in the state as a “nightmare”.
Veteran Trinamul Congress (TMC) leader Ashish Banerjee, former MLA of Rampurhat and former Deputy Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, has resigned from his posts as district chairman and chairman of the Birbhum district core committee.
West Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday inspected polling stations in Bhabanipur assembly seat, and also offered prayers at the Hanuman temple in the region.
With the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections scheduled for Wednesday, authorities have intensified efforts to ensure a free, fair, and peaceful polling process across 142 constituencies in seven districts of south Bengal.
Trinamul Congress has alleged that the police observer in South 24-Parganas is visiting the houses and misbehaving with women in absence of the male members of the family.
Loudspeakers blared instructions to polling officers and security officers, who have gathered from nearby polling stations at Kolkata’s more than a century-old St Lawrence School, for last-minute instructions.
The final phase of the keenly-watched West Bengal Assembly elections on 142 seats will on Wednesday test the fate of around 1,448 candidates, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee — engaged in the mother of all elections with BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who in 2021 Assembly elections had defeated her in Nandigram, her bastion.
