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”.
In a significant move, a delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party approached the Election Commission of India in New Delhi on Monday, demanding to stop the election campaign of Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she is intimidating voters.
Abhishek Banerjee, national general secretary of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), on Monday raised serious concerns over alleged irregularities in voter registration in West Bengal, accusing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of attempting to interfere with the state’s democratic process and questioning the response of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
The BJP on Monday approached the Election Commission, accusing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) of “intimidating” electors to dissuade them from voting for the saffron party in the upcoming Assembly polls.
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, on Sunday, alleged that democratic rights are being systematically suppressed in West Bengal under the Trinamool Congress-led state government.
Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday alleged that the BJP and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have a tacit understanding with former Congress MP Adhir Chowdhury and Humayun Kabir, chief of the Aam Janata Unnayan Party.
