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 Trinamul Congress took to the streets across different parts of Hooghly district on Thursday evening to protest against raids conducted by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) at the residence and office of I-PAC chief Pratik Jain in Kolkata’s Loudon Street area.
Ritabrata Banerjee, Trinamul Congress Rajya Sabha member on Wednesday wrote to Union minister of textiles Giriraj Singh, opposing the decision to permit the large-scale use of plastic bags for food grain procurement.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday explained the basis of its searches at the residence and office of Pratik Jain, director of political consultancy firm Indian PAC Consulting Private Limited (I-PAC), linking the operation to its ongoing investigation into the multi-crore coal smuggling case in West Bengal.
Trinamul Congress (TMC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday described the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections as a “vote of protest” and a “vote to punish” the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), launching a sharp attack on the Centre and the saffron party’s leadership.
The issue of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen being called for a hearing by the Election Commission of India (ECI) came to light on Tuesday after Trinamul Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee raised the matter publicly.
