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.
The incident happened at Murutia police station area in Nadia’s Karimpur when ruling party MLA Bimalendu Singh Roy allegedly assaulted a group of Higher Secondary students returning home on bicycles.
A war of words has erupted between the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the West Bengal Budget, with welfare schemes such as Lakshmir Bhandar and the newly-announced Yuba Sathi project becoming key flashpoints ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections.
Five days after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the Union Budget, the Trinamul Congress (TMC) has officially reacted to the announcement of a new industrial corridor in Durgapur along with improved road connectivity.
In a statement, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale said ECI officials had now acknowledged that software-related errors were responsible for the deletion of names of legitimate voters from the electoral rolls.
The Trinamool Congress on Friday accused the Election Commission of India of presiding over “massive deletions” from the voter list in West Bengal, alleging that the removals were caused by a “mysterious faulty software” used by the poll body.
