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.
Trinamul Congress national general secretary and the party’s MP from Diamond Harbour Abhishek Banerjee urged party workers to ensure the victory for all the 31 candidates by 50,000 votes each in the forthcoming Assembly election in South 24-Parganas.
With the New Year ushering in the crucial Assembly election year, the political temperature in North Bengal has begun to rise. Sensing the high electoral stakes, both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Trinamul Congress (TMC) have stepped up political mobilisation across the region, signalling the onset of an early and intense campaign battle for 2026.
Serampore MP Kalyan Banerjee, speaking on the Trinamul Congress (TMC) foundation day in Serampore on Wednesday, urged party leaders and workers to remain united to face what he described as a very tough fight ahead.
West Bengal once had a thriving jute industry, with the state producing one of the finest jute qualities.
State politics in West Bengal was rocked at the very start of the New Year after a Trinamul Congress leader was shot dead in Raiganj town of North Dinajpur district last midnight.
