Tag: TMC

Girl from Bidhan Chandra College Bengal, beaten and abused inside campus

A college girl was allegedly beaten up and sexually abused by a member of Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad — TMC student wing — on the college campus in West Bengal’s Hooghly district, the victim said on Thursday. The girl, a final-year student of Bidhan Chandra College in Hooghly’s industrial town Rishra, alleged that she was sexually...

January 18, 2018

BJP will resist TMC attacks: Dilip Ghosh

BJP state president Dilip Ghosh today said that  his party will actively resist against every single attack by the Trinamul Congress on its supporters. He was reacting to the violence in Nadia, in which some Trinamul supporters allegedly attacked some Bharatiya Janata Yuba Morcha (BJYM) supporters with bamboo sticks during the motorbike rally while rally...

January 18, 2018

Two days after attack on members, Bengal BJP President flags off bike rally from Vivekananda House

The Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), launched their second leg of the mega rally, ‘Pratirodh Sankalp Abhiyan’, from Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral residence in Kolkata on 15 January. State president Dilip Ghosh flagged off the rally from Vivekanda House in Kolkata. The rally will head to Krishnanagar...

January 15, 2018

Central BJP approves Bengal’s offer to give important posts to TMC leaders joining BJP

Ahead of the Bengal panchayat polls, the BJP at the Centre approved the proposal of the state BJP to give important posts and portfolio to the Trinamul Congress leaders and workers, who will join the BJP. The state BJP urged the central leadership to give important posts to the TMC workers and leaders, who left...

January 15, 2018

TMC playing divide and rule politics in Bengal: Mukul Roy

Addressing a rally of the BJP’s minority morcha at Esplanade, on Thursday, Bengal BJP leader Mukul Roy said the minority people are being deprived during the Trinamul Congress tenure. Accusing the TMC of playing divide and rule politics, he said the ruling party should rather concentrate in the development work of the minority community. “The...

January 12, 2018

TMC leader organises Brahmin convention

A senior leader of Trinamool Congress on Monday organised a massive “Brahmin and Purohit Sammelan” (a Brahmin convention) in Bolpur town of Birbhum district, a move seen by the opposition BJP to arrest consolidation of Hindu votes in favour of the party. The day-long sammelan is organised by party’s Birbhum district president, Anubrata Mondal in...

January 8, 2018

BJP left red-faced as bypoll candidate says she is with TMC

The West Bengal unit of the BJP was left red-faced after former TMC MLA Manju Basu turned down the saffron party’s offer to contest the upcoming Noapara assembly bypoll. The BJP central leadership had announced Basu’s name as the party’s candidate for the byelection yesterday evening. Hours later, Basu told reporters that she is still...

January 8, 2018

Cong leaders unhappy over Uluberia poll nominee

After PCC chief Adhir Chowdhury, seeking to field a newcomer, announced the name of Mudassar Hossain Warsi to be the Congress nominee in the by-election for Uluberia parliamentary segment, the lack of unanimity in this choice has led to disgruntlement in the party. While the leadership of the Trinamul Congress and CPI-M, having announced their...

January 7, 2018

Cong names Goutam Basu for Noapara Assembly bypoll

After a humiliating defeat in the Sabang Assembly by-election, a despondent mood prevails in the state Congress as its leadership anounced Goutam Basu as the candidate for Noapara Assembly bypoll. On the other hand, having already announced their nominees, both Trinamul Congress and CPI-M have started their election campaign. While the name of Basu, a...

January 6, 2018

Violence back in Bengal’s Bhangar, villagers attacked

Violence returned to West Bengal’s Bhangar on Tuesday, only three days after a peace rally was organised by the Trinamool Congress, as the leaders of the anti-power grid movement in the area accused the ruling party of attacking and terrorising villagers. “The miscreants’ group backed by local Trinamool Congress leader Arabul Islam attacked the villagers...

January 3, 2018

A larger role for Mamata?

Fiery Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has thrown her hat into the ring to lead an anti-Modi opposition front in 2019. Consequently, Sonia Gandhi may reconsider her decision to “retire”. Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien dropped clear hints about Mamata’s ambitions at a recent press briefing. He launched into a lengthy account of the TMC...

January 3, 2018

Bengal in 2017: Soured by agitation, riots, scams; sweetened by rosogolla

West Bengal was plagued by intense political rivalry, statehood agitation and communal riots in 2017 but the year ended on a sweet note as the state won the long battle with Odisha over the origin of the rosogolla. Busy fire-fighting on issues like Gorkhaland agitation, communal flare-up or scams, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee also took...

December 24, 2017

Gujarat belled the cat for 2017: Mamata Banerjee on poll verdict

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that “Gujarat belled the cat for 2019” and congratulated people of Gujarat for their “balanced verdict” on Gujarat Assembly elections. Mamata said on Twitter that, Gujarat verdict is just a “temporary and face-saving win” and “shows moral defeat for BJP”. Gujarat voted against atrocities, anxiety and injustice...

December 18, 2017

Bengal ministers meet family of labourer hacked in Rajasthan

West Bengal ministers and political leaders on Saturday visited the family of a Bengali labourer, who was brutally killed in Rajasthan two days ago, and offered their condolences. Senior Trinamool leaders Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Sougata Roy, State Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim, Transport Minister Subhendu Adhikari met the family in West Bengal’s Malda district and handed...

December 9, 2017

Mamata announces aid for kin of man hacked in Rajasthan

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday announced aid to the family of a labourer, Afrajul Khan (48) from Bengal, who was brutally hacked to death and later burned in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand region. The accused, Shambunath Raigar, had hacked Afrajul to death and later set him afire, and filmed the whole incident and warned ‘love-jihadis’ of a similar fate....

December 8, 2017

Gouge out opposition workers’ eyes: TMC leader tells party cadres

Three days after he was caught on camera threatening to thrash and break limbs of opposition leaders, controversial Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Anubrata Mondal on Saturday was back in the news with his order to party workers to gouge out the eyes of opposition activists and replace those with artificial eyes. Mondal, known for his...

November 19, 2017

Bengal CM Mamata defends Delhi CM over pollution

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday suggested the Central government open a dialogue with chief ministers of neighbouring states to flesh out a solution to Delhi’s pollution problem instead of blaming her Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal. “Global warming is a problem. Delhi pollution a disaster. Instead of blaming each other, I suggest Centre...

November 10, 2017