Tag: Trinamool Congress

48 MPs, MLAs have declared cases of crime against women: ADR

At least 48 MPs and MLAs have declared cases related to crime against women, with BJP having the highest number of such politicians at 12, a report said on Thursday amid a nation-wide outrage over rape incidents, including in UP’s Unnao where a ruling party lawmaker is an accused. “Out of 1,580 (33 per cent) …

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April 19, 2018

BJP to hit back if TMC goons further attack their candidates: Dilip Ghosh

BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said that TMC will face dire consequences if they further force the BJP candidates to withdraw their nomination papers. Mr Ghosh said that BJP candidates have filed nomination for more than 35,000 seats in the panchayat election but TMC-backed goons are still terrorising their party candidates in the rural belts …

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April 16, 2018

Trinamool organises rally for justice to Kathua-Unnao rape victims

West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Saturday conducted a protest rally demanding justice for Khatua and Unnao rape victims. Party’s senior leaders including ministers Chandrima Bhattacharya and Shashi Panja participated in the rally organised by the Trinamool’s women wing. Participants were shouting slogans for justice, carrying placards against the BJP governments at the Centre and …

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April 15, 2018

South Dinajpur parties slam Trinamul ‘haughtiness’

Opposition parties in South Dinajpur have failed to file their nomination papers for all the seats for the upcoming rural elections in the state. A majority of the opposition party leaders have raised a united voice against the ruling Trinamul Congress and the “arrogance” of its party workers in every block of the district, mainly …

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April 10, 2018

Bengal Panchayat polls: Left leaders decry Trinamool’s violence

Decrying an “unprecedented attack” by West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on the opposition parties’ basic democratic right to file nominations for the panchayat elections, Left leaders on Friday called for firm action against all those indulging in “hooliganism and intimidation”. In a joint statement, five Left leaders accused the Trinamool of having resorted to a …

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April 6, 2018

TMC trying to gag democracy in West Bengal: BJP

The BJP on Thursday accused West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress of not allowing its workers to file their nomination papers for the panchayat elections and said it was trying to “gag democracy” in the state. The nomination process for the elections started on April 2 and hundreds of workers have been attacked by the TMC …

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April 5, 2018

Will counter Trinamool’s pre-poll violence with equal measure: Dilip Ghosh

In wake of sporadic violence in Bengal over filing of nominations for the upcoming Panchayat polls, state BJP President Dilip Ghosh on Tuesday accused the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress of attacking their party activists and warned it could expect an equal response. “They have stopped others candidates from submitting the nomination forms in some places. …

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April 4, 2018

Federal Front to one-on-one

Mamata Banerjee’s high-voltage, four-day visit to Delhi made one thing clear. There’s going to be no Third Front or Federal Front. The idea of a front of regional parties was shot down by NCP chief Sharad Pawar who pointed out to Mamata that the Congress had to be part of a united opposition effort to …

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April 4, 2018

Trinamool leaders stage protest against Air India sale in Parliament

Holding placards that read ‘Air India is India’s pride’, the TMC parliamentarians claimed that the carrier’s sale is another scam waiting to happen.

April 2, 2018

Opposition parties signing proposal on impeachment motion against CJI: NCP

Nationalist Congress Party leader D.P. Tripathi said on Tuesday that some opposition parties have started putting signatures on a draft proposal for moving an impeachment motion against Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra. “Some opposition parties have started putting their signatures on the draft proposal,” he said. The NCP and the Communist Party of India-Marxist …

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March 28, 2018

Trinamool, BJP in show of strength over Ram Navami celebrations in Bengal

Ram Navami, a spring Hindu festival that celebrates the birthday of god Rama, was organised on an unprecedented scale across West Bengal on Sunday, with the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress and opposition BJP going all out to soak in the festivites this year. While the Trinamool leaders termed their Ram Navami celebrations a symbol of …

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March 26, 2018

Big victory for BJP & its Hindutva agenda: Sinha

BJP leader Mukul Roy today said that Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee must clear her political stand on the issue of construction of Ram temple in Ayodhya. After flagging off a Ram Navami procession at Manicktala here, former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP said Miss Banerjee instructed TMC workers to celebrate Ram Navami in …

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March 26, 2018

West Bengal on tenterhooks over Ram Navami celebrations

Even as Ram Navami celebrations are being held across the nation with fervour, West Bengal is on tenterhooks following the announcement of multiple rallies by right wing organisations as well as the ruling Trinamool Congress. There was tension in Bardhaman district following the alleged vandalism of a Lord Ram pandal. In Baguihati, in the heart …

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March 25, 2018

Women politicians pitch for reservation in Parliament

Women representatives from different political parties came together here on Saturday in support of reservation of seats for them in Parliament. During “The Bridge 2018” organised by The Caravan, politicians like Renuka Chowdhury of Congress, Mahua Moitra from Trinamool Congress, Brinda Karat from CPI-M, Sushmita Dev, President, All India Mahila Congress, author Shubhrastha, and political …

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March 25, 2018

Rajya Sabha elections: Trinamool wins four seats, Congress one in Bengal

The Trinamool Congress bagged four seats and the Congress one in the Rajya Sabha polls from West Bengal on Friday. All four Trinamool candidates — sitting Rajya Sabha member Nadimul Haque and first time nominees Subhasish Chakraborty, Abir Biswas and Santanu Sen — emerged victorious in the vote count. Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, supported …

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March 23, 2018

Murshidabad Congress MLA joins Trinamool

The Congress MLA from Murshidabad constituency, Mrs Shaoni Singha Roy today  joined the Trinamool Congress party in Murshidabad district. The state transport minister and the TMC observer for Murshidabad, Mr Subhendu Adhikary handed over the party flag to the defected Congress MLA during a party workers’ meeting at Jiaganj municipal town this afternoon. With this, …

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March 19, 2018

‘TMC workers threaten BJP counterparts’

The state BJP today alleged that ahead of the panchayat election in West Bengal,  Trinamool Congress leaders are threatening their party supporters for taking part in the upcoming panchayat poll campaign or joining the saffron brigade’s political programme. BJP’s state secretary Raju Banerjee said one MLA of the TMC threatened their supporters who were taking …

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March 19, 2018