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.
Congress Working Committee member Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday questioned the intent behind the Trinamul Congress (TMC) protest in the national capital against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid on the Kolkata office of political consultancy firm I-PAC.
The Bankura district police have arrested Hakim Sheikh and Wasim Sheikh from Illambazar in Birbhum district in connection with the murder of a Trinamul Congress (TMC) supporter in Sonamukhi around five months ago.
A day after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted raids at the office of I-PAC in connection with the alleged coal smuggling case, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee took to the streets to protest against the ED action. CM Mamata Banerjee alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was trying to come to power in West Bengal as they did in Maharashtra and Haryana.
With the electoral drumbeats growing louder in Bengal, Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday turned a public meeting at Taherpur in Nadia into a high-voltage political battleground.
Prasad also criticised the Trinamool Congress protests outside Union Home Minister Amit Shah's office.