Signature controversy: TMC’s Sovondeb releases meeting documents
According to the documents made public by Chattopadhyay, 67 MLAs attended the 6 May meeting at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street.
According to the documents made public by Chattopadhyay, 67 MLAs attended the 6 May meeting at 30B Harish Chatterjee Street.
The INDIA bloc suffered a mega setback after the assembly elections as two of its major political parties, the TMC and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), suffered electoral setbacks in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively.
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.
Senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday criticised the Trinamul Congress (TMC) over its reported plan to move an impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar in Parliament, alleging that the move was politically motivated.
Trinamul Congress leadership demanded resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for being unprepared leading to the crises of cooking gas, both in the domestic and commercial supply, leading to the ordeal of lakhs of people across the country.
During a meeting with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar earlier this week, majority of players, including the BJP, Congress and CPI(M), reportedly demanded that the polls be held in one or two phases.
The issue was raised by Pratima Mondal, MP from the All India Trinamul Congress, to which Union minister of state for rural development Kamlesh Paswan responded in Parliament on 10 March.
The war of words between Siliguri Mayor Goutam Deb of the Trinamul Congress and Siliguri MLA Sankar Ghosh of the BJP continues to intensify ahead of the forthcoming election.
