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.
A day when the Congress officially announced its decision to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections on its own, the CPI-M said that it was still keen on forging a broader front of forces opposed to both the Trinamul Congress and the BJP, even as the prospects of a pre-poll understanding with the Congress appeared uncertain.
The BJP will lose many seats in the forthcoming Assembly election, Chief Minister and Trinamul Congress chairperson said in the West Bengal Assembly today.
Though the Sebaashray camps in Diamond Harbour have come to an end, people being serviced through the camps still continues, with 11 people undergoing eye surgery.
Senior Congress leader and former West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Tuesday squarely blamed the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) for the devastating fire at Nazirabad in Anandapur, alleging large-scale administrative failure and political patronage behind the tragedy.
. The editorial also claimed the decision was part of a broader agenda to prevent a merger between the two factions of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and to ensure political continuity under the current power structure.