Tag: Trinamul Congress

Uluberia bypoll: Opp accuses TMC of foul play

The bypoll for the Uluberia Lok Sabha on Monday was by and large peaceful barring stray incidents. While the ruling Trinamul Congress claimed it was peaceful polling and upbeat about another stellar performance with handsome win, the Opposition Left and the BJP cried foul of electoral malpractice by the ruling party but stopped short of...

January 30, 2018

Noapara poll passes off peacefully

Barring some stray incidents of clash and scuffle, Assembly vote for Noapara passed off peacefully today amid tight security. The Opposition including BJP, Congress and Left Front, alleged the Trinamul Congress brought miscreants from outside to terrorize. The ruling party, however,ruled out th e allegations as baseless. A clash broke out near a booth at...

January 30, 2018

Avishek asks party workers to work towards ‘Opposition -free’ Bengal

The state Trinamul Congress youth president and Diamond Harbour MP Avishek Banerjee, on Saturday called party activists to work towards an ‘opposition-free Bengal’. He was speaking at a rally in Purono Kella ground, Diamond Harbour. He directed the TMC workers that all wings of the party should start work to achieve this aim ahead of...

January 28, 2018

Eight-day budget session beginning on 30 January

The Opposition is being gagged in the state with a Trinamul Congress state government deciding on a eight-day Budget session begining on 30 January leaving little time to deliberate on utility of the funds allotted for people’s welfare, leader of the Oppositon in the state Assembly said on Thursday. It is the smallest Budget such...

January 26, 2018

Congress to boycott all-party meet as mark of protest

Congress Legislative Party (CLP) will boycott an all-party meeting convened by the Speaker Biman Banerjee at the state Assembly on Thursday. Announcing this, leader of the Opposition, Abdul Mannan said on Wednesday that since the Speaker does not conduct the House on the basis of mutual understanding with the Opposition our boycott is a mark...

January 25, 2018

Upset over CPM not wanting tie-up, Cong pins hope on Hyderabad CC

Almost crestfallen in the wake of the decision of CPI-M Central Committee not to have any truck with the Congress, a section of the state Congress leadership are pinning their hopes on the CPI-M’s party congress scheduled to be held in Hyderabad. More than anywhere else in the country, the Congress had made considerable political...

January 24, 2018

Seven held in Basanti clash

Seven persons, including the husband of Trinamul Congress panchayat pradhan, involved in yesterday’s clash between the mother wing and the youth wing of Trinamul Congress (TMC) at Basanti were arrested on Friday. The youth wing put up a road block on Basanti highway with the body of Hasan Laskar, who died after being hit by...

January 20, 2018

Tripartite tea wage talks inconclusive

The 8th tripartite meeting on wage revision for tea workers ended inconclusively at Uttarkanya on Friday. No resolution was also adopted on the issue of traditional ration system, which was stopped after the state started distributing food grains under the National Food Security Act (NFSA). State labour minister Moloy Ghatak said that the next tripartite...

January 20, 2018

Youth held as poacher freed

Officials of the Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) were today orced to free a youth they had detained yesterday for “illegal gathering in the forest with ill motives.” Backed by local Trinamul Congress leaders, around 100 villagers living in the Buxa Tiger Reserve (BTR) Forest today staged a demonstration at the West Damanpur Range Office, demanding unconditional...

January 19, 2018

Mamata’s NRC remark insult to Constitution, SC: Kailash

BJP national general secretary and the West Bengal observer Kailash Vijayvargiya today criticized chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her remarks on the updating of the National Register of Citizens in Assam. Issuing a statement, Mr Vijayvargiya said Miss Banerjee had insulted the Constitution and the Supreme Court with her remarks on the NRC in Assam....

January 6, 2018

Quick-fix solutions

Rice at Rs 2 a kg in West Bengal’s Junglemahal belt hasn’t quite alleviated the privation of the people. Though the Chief Minister was riveted to the appalling conditions in the fledgling district of Jhargram ~ and not the overall basketcase of poverty in West Midnapore, Bankura, and Purulia ~ the subtext of her message...

October 14, 2017

Students & politics

Politics in student unions is not quite an issue that lends scope for double-think to run wild. To dispel the prevalent misconception, the decision to put in place de-politicised student bodies in the campuses isn’t quite the prescription of the West Bengal government, but the Lyngdoh Commission’s. Yet the fact that it has signalled its...

September 2, 2017

Triumph & trounce

The election to seven civic boards would scarcely have been of much moment were it not for the signals emitted in the latest round. That the Trinamul Congress would make a clean sweep, across North and South Bengal, was a fairly settled fact even before the first vote was cast last Sunday. The disconcerting thought...

August 21, 2017

Riding the waves

It’s official now. The BJP is finally the principal opposition party in Tripura, a long-time CPI-M citadel cradled in the wilds of the Northeast. Last week, six Trinamul Congress legislators formally joined the BJP. An enthusiastic BJP general secretary Ram Madhav, also a former RSS spokesman, tweeted, “Six TMC MLAs join the BJP in Tripura...

August 14, 2017

Religious putridity

The political kerfuffle in West Bengal over the Bharatiya Janata Party’s observance of Ram Navami and the Trinamul’s equally spirited celebration of Hanuman and Annapurna puja ~ as a counter-move ~ would not have erupted if both parties had proceeded with circumspection. Thus it was that religious fervour was reduced to a level of putridity....

April 7, 2017

Opp raises queries on GST implementation in RS

Although happy discussing the four follow-up Bills on the GST law, Rajya Sabha members today expressed fears over implementation of the new indirect tax law, and propose to move amendments to ensure Parliamentary control over GST Council decisions and other changes. The amendments, likely to be moved by Congress, Trinamul Congress and the CPI (M), will not worry...

April 5, 2017

TMC MP, Babul Supriyo argue over Bengal health facilities

Minister of State for Heavy Industries Babul Supriyo and Trinamul Congress member Saugata Roy were today engaged in an argument over the state of healthcare in West Bengal during a short duration discussion on 'Sustainable Development Goals ~ Way Forward for the Health and Well Being for All' in the Lok Sabha. While the Trinamul...

March 30, 2017