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.
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”.
Trinamul Congressnational general secretary Abhishek Banerjee addressed a rally at Balurghat Town Club ground in Balurghat today where he highlighted the attempts to spread fear in Bengal in the name of SIR.
The court observed that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is taking necessary steps to ensure free and fair polls, and such transfers must be viewed in that context.
Launching a sharp political offensive ahead of the Assembly elections, Chief Minister and Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday simultaneously targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission of India, while issuing a firm message of organisational unity to party leaders and grassroots workers during a massive rally in Garhbeta.
Vehicles were torched and stones pelted by angry locals after a sand-laden truck ran over a youth in Raniganj.
Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of the Trinamul Congress, on Monday raised serious concerns over alleged irregularities in voter registration in West Bengal, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party of attempting to interfere with the state’s democratic process and questioning the response of the Election Commission of India.
