Tag: Trinamul Congress

Dilip Ghosh’s vehicle attacked

BJP blames Trinamul Congress for Contai attack, TMC local MP Adhikari denies charge.

September 18, 2018

Puja bonanza

With puja pandals sprouting up across Kolkata and the rest of the state, there is collective jubilation over Mamata Banerjee’s bonanza of Rs 28 crore to all puja committees. A fair amount of money will, therefore, be shelled out by the West Bengal government that since 2011 has contended with a torpid economy. Doublethink runs …

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September 17, 2018

TMC would not have been formed had Vajpayee been not there: Roy

Speaking at the condolence meeting of the former PM at Mahajati Sadan, Mr Roy said that the former Prime Minister Mr Vajpayee had helped a lot in the formation of the Trinamul, but the present party leadership of the Trinamul is ungrateful to Atalji.

August 30, 2018

BJP resorting to politics of murder: Mamata

Mamata says state government will never allow NRC exercise in Bengal, charges that the BJP is now working with erstwhile CPM 'harmads'

August 29, 2018

Victory of the people: Mamata

Welcoming the Supreme Court verdict on panchayat poll, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday slammed the BJP, the Congress and the CPIM for resorting to “false propaganda” and “conspiracy” as well as “defaming” and “insulting” the state through “planned and planted move”. “This is a victory of democracy and the people of Bengal. …

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August 25, 2018

Land for Power

Last weekend witnessed a remarkable forward movement in terms of land and industry, issues on which a high-voltage approach had doomed the Bengal Left. Chiefly, the three parties that concluded Saturday’s agreement on a power project in Bhangar (South 24-Parganas) ~ the West Bengal government, the land agitators, and the power entity called PGCIL ~ …

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August 14, 2018

NRC dominates proceedings

The Rajya Sabha had an uneasy week over Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC) published on Monday, which left out over 40 lakh residents, while the Lok Sabha dispensed with the issue on the first day of the week, with a walk-out by the Opposition. Speaker Sumitra Mahajan rejected a Trinamul Congress notice for adjournment …

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August 6, 2018

NRC: BJP vows to expose Mamata

The state BJP on Friday said while Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee is misleading the country by alleging that super emergency is prevailing in the country but it is actually the chief minister who has imposed super emergency in the Bengal. Addressing a Press conference BJP state general secretary Sayantan Basu (photo) on Friday said …

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August 4, 2018

Mamata accuses BJP govt of imposing ‘super emergency’

Miss Banerjee told reporters that when she met Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on the NRC issue he had assured her that no one would be harassed.

August 3, 2018

NRC row will destroy ties with Bangladesh, warns Mamata Banerjee

Banerjee questioned why the government was focusing only on illegal migrants from Bangladesh, when India also hosts a sizeable migrant population from Nepal.

August 2, 2018

‘Infiltrators will be driven out if BJP gains power in Bengal’

Ghosh's comments came in the backdrop of CM's strong reaction on the exclusion of over 40 lakh names in Assam's NRC Draft.

July 31, 2018

Mamata’s 1 August visit to St Stephen’s College cancelled

The Trinamul Congress (TMC) leadership on Saturday alleged a BJP-RSS hand behind the cancellation of state chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s lecture at St Stephen’s College in New Delhi and said, her voice “cannot be silenced”. St Stephen’s College has withdrawn an invitation extended to Miss Banerjee to deliver a lecture and interact with the students …

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July 29, 2018

Language & Identity

Thursday’s forward movement in the West Bengal Assembly on renaming the state comes after considerable prevarication on correcting what was a historical certitude prior to Partition. This ought to have been accorded uppermost priority in the aftermath of Independence, and was definitely of far greater import than moving up the alphabetical ladder at inter-State conferences, …

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July 29, 2018

Govt mulls crucial tea meet before min wage fixation

Official sources said the meeting is significant as it will review the entire scenario of plantations, including the plight and sentiment of the workers, before fixation of a minimum wage structure for the tea industry.

July 26, 2018

July the 21st

Kolkata was “turned upside down” last Saturday to summon the title of the seminal work on the English Revolution by one of the finest historians, Christopher Hill ~ The World Turned Upside Down. Whether or not the Bharatiya Janata Party’s government at the Centre is dumped in 2019 ~ as Mamata Banerjee hopes ~ it …

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July 25, 2018

As govt plans wage hike, planters reluctant?

At a time when the Trinamul Congress-led state government is trying hard to hike the remuneration of tea workers, sub staff and staff in the region, including the Hills, in its bid to create a strong base in the Darjeeling parliamentary segment ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, a section of planters are allegedly reluctant …

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July 24, 2018

CMCH students withdraw 14-day strike

Authorities allot two floors for senior students at new hostel till the underconstruction hostel building becomes habitable.

July 24, 2018