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.
With the increasing risk of fire incidents during the ongoing dry season, the Railways has urged people to restrain themselves from committing acts that could lead to a blaze.
A political controversy has erupted in Murshidabad after a Trinamul Congress leader extended financial assistance for the construction of a mosque associated with suspended TMC leader Humayun Kabir.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee recently created history when she appeared personally in the Supreme Court to argue a case. As a “party in person,” she challenged the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, citing potential mass exclusion of voters.
What was meant to be a routine inauguration of a rural road turned into an embarrassing spectacle for Trinamul Congress MLA Manik Bhattacharya on Wednesday, as chants of “chor” (thief) rang out from within the gathering ~ allegedly from disgruntled members of his own party.
At the Trinamul Bhavan, state minister Bratya Basu said that Hills leader Bishnu Prasad Sharma responding to the call of Trinamul national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and inspired by CM Mamata Banerjee joined the party today.
