Tag: TMC

BJP protests TMC’s ‘kidnapping’ of couple who hosted Shah

The controversy surrounding the tribal couple who joined the Trinamool Congress, days after hosting BJP Chief Amit Shah refuses to die down as the BJP on Thursday organized protests across the state accusing the TMC of “kidnapping and forcing” the husband and wife. The activists of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) and the BJP organized protest...

May 4, 2017

BJP left red-faced as tribal couple who hosted Shah joins TMC

In a major embarrassment for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a tribal couple who had recently hosted party chief Amit Shah for lunch on Wednesday joined West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress. The couple – Raju and Geeta Mahali – joined the TMC on their own will said Trinamool's Darjeeling district President and state Tourism Minister...

May 3, 2017

BJP-TMC rift widens as Mamata Banerjee faces political muck!

The rift between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal took a different turn after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was, on Monday, called a ‘hijra’ (eunuch) by a senior leader of the saffron party. “Mamata Banerjee is practising the politics of appeasement and indulging in theatrics. With the current...

May 1, 2017

Trinamool Congress’ Tripura leader says not joining BJP

Days after Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee hinted that some Tripura party leaders went to New Delhi to meet central BJP leaders, a Trinamool MLA on Saturday declared that they would not join the saffron party but were instead keen to build an "anti-Left maha jot" or grand alliance to oust the ruling Left in...

April 29, 2017

Narada case: ED registers case against TMC leaders

In a major blow to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) , the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday registered a money laundering case against party leaders in the Narada 'sting' case. The agency has registered the case under the provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) based on a first information report by the Central Bureau...

April 28, 2017

Narada sting case: Amit Shah rejects TMC’s conspiracy charge

BJP president Amit Shah on Wednesday rejected Trinamool Congress charge that conspiracy was hatched to frame its party leaders in corruption cases including Narada. "There is no conspiracy. They (TMC leaders) were seen on TV taking money. Entire world can see it", he said, rejecting the TMC charge that conspiracy was hatched by the BJP in...

April 26, 2017

Appeasement politics will ruin Trinamool: BJP

BJP's national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Monday warned West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress of "total ruination" if it did not stop its appeasement politics. "I assure you (the people) that through Bengal's 'Jan Aakrosh', we will only breathe after we have felled the Trinamool government. Through the district administration, I want to tell the...

April 24, 2017

Popularity of TMC, other parties declining in Bengal: Smriti Irani

Union Textiles Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said BJP's progress in the recent Kanthi Dakshin assembly by-polls indicated the "declining popularity" of West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and other political parties. "It is indicative of the efforts put in by the BJP's Bengal unit. It is also indicative of the declining popularity of TMC...

April 19, 2017

Trinamool Congress block president shot dead, 2 injured

A Trinamool Congress block president was shot dead and two others were injured inside a party office at Bagula in Nadia district by a gang of gunmen this evening, police said. Dulal Biswas (52), Hanskhali block Trinamool Congress president and Bagula gram panchayat pradhan, was inside Bagula party office holding a meeting. At around 8...

April 16, 2017

TMC seeks immediate arrest of BJYM leader

The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday condemned the bounty announced by a BJP youth wing leader on the head of Mamata Banerjee, saying the threat has been issued by "rogue element of politics" and asked why he has not been arrested immediately. TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee said, "We are asking the government in Delhi why...

April 12, 2017

Trinamool MPs protest outside Parliament

The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday staged a dharna in front of the Mahatma Gandhi statue in the Parliament complex, protesting the slashing of interest rates on PPF and other small savings schemes. TMC members of both the Houses raised slogans against the Centre's move which they said would hurt the common man and added that...

April 5, 2017

It’s Ram versus Hanuman in Bengal’s political slugfest

Hanuman may have been one of the greatest devotees of Lord Rama as depicted in the Ramayana, but things are turning on their head in West Bengal now, with ruling Trinamool Congress organising worship of the monkey god to counter the BJP's aggressive Ram Navmi celebrations on Wednesday. The BJP, which is making a determined...

April 5, 2017

Trinamool lawmaker slams Bengal opposition for targeting CM

Alleging a conspiracy was afoot to trigger unrest in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday slammed the opposition parties for what he said was targeting of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. He said the people of the state will respond democratically to the political attacks by the Communist Party of India-Marxist, the Congress...

April 2, 2017

TMC takes out second rally against BJP’s vendetta politics

Trinamool Congress on Friday took out its second rally here in two days against what it called BJP's "vendetta politics" and accused it of trying to malign its leaders in false cases. TMC senior leader and minister Sovan Chatterjee addressing the rally said, "The people's struggle will intensify in days to come. Whenever we have...

March 31, 2017

TMC member raises Gujarat communal violence issue in Lok Sabha

The issue of communal violence in a village of Gujarat was raised in the Lok Sabha by a Trinamool Congress member who termed it as "worrisome" since the incident has taken place in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state. Saugata Roy said the violence took place in Pattan district, just 100 kms from Ahmedabad, and...

March 28, 2017

Tripura police probing threats to TMC leader-turned-BJP member

Tripura Police on Friday began investigating threat calls to former minister and veteran TMC leader Ratan Chakraborty, who joined the BJP on Thursday. "Two youths, reportedly Trinamool Congress (TMC) activists, have made two successive calls from their mobiles to Ratan Chakraborty, threatening him with dire consequences. We are now probing the incident," a police official said. The official...

March 24, 2017

Alarmed over rise of ‘jihadis’ in Bengal: RSS

The RSS on Tuesday said it was seriously concerned over the rise of what it said were "jihadi elements" in West Bengal and flayed the state's TMC government for "patronising" anti-national elements. During its three-day National Council meet here, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) adopted a resolution on the situation in Bengal and called upon...

March 21, 2017