The confrontation over Opposition leadership and disputed signatures has opened a new front inside the Trinamool Congress, with rebel legislators publicly asserting numerical strength.
As political tensions rise in West Bengal, the BJP and TMC have traded sharp accusations over post-poll violence, protests and the state's evolving political landscape.
TMC leader Kunal Ghosh claimed that the attack on Abhishek Banerjee was "very serious" and that he was "badly injured".
All the six councillors, said to be close associates of previous Chandannagar MLA Indranil Sen, resigned on Friday, May 29.
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar has officially tendered her resignation from all the organisational posts in the Mamata Banerjee-led party with immediate effect.
A video released by Trinamool has sparked a political fallout in Bengal, with Humayun Kabir denying allegations and AIMIM deciding to part ways ahead of elections.
Weaving Iqbal and Bismil into a political address, Mamata Banerjee accused the Centre of engineering voter deletions and threatened electoral consequences for those she called BJP-funded vote-splitters.
With Mamata Banerjee heading the star campaigner roster and candidates spread across five regions, TMC is mounting its most organised electoral effort in Assam to date.
Opposition parties say they have gathered signatures from more than 190 MPs to initiate an impeachment motion against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, setting up a fresh confrontation in Parliament.
A Lok Sabha reply says the Centre is awaiting West Bengal’s labour budget proposal under MGNREGA, sparking a political exchange after BJP leader Amit Malviya cited the document.
