Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) In an explosive critique of the previous Trinamool Congress administration and its functioning in West Bengal, senior party leader Biswajit Deb on Friday remarked that if the Lok Sabha polls were conducted after the RG Kar controversy, the party would not have managed to even win nine seats.Speaking to IANS, Deb, who is also the Advocate General of Mizoram, listed the reasons for Trinamool’s electoral setback, highlighting ignorance of ground reality, communication gap wit…
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Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) After making himself almost homebound since the results of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections were announced on May 4 and restricting himself to occasional issuing of social media statements, Trinamool Congress’ general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, will resume his public political activities from Saturday onwards.According to information shared by Trinamool Congress on Friday, Banerjee, the three-time Lok Sabha membe…
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Trinamool Congress councillor Arup Chakraborty on Thursday resigned from the post of party spokesperson.In an email to the party leadership, he said that he was resigning for personal reasons. However, he also expressed gratitude for the trust reposed in him by the party and for being given the responsibility.Earlier on Wednesday, Arup Chakraborty had resigned from the post of member of the Accounts Committee at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).On Thursday, Arup Cha…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) As internal crisis within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) escalates, with several party leaders and elected public representatives targeting the party’s general secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, over the party’s landslide defeat, former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has chosen to counter the rebels within the party by penning a poem on the theme of a “chameleon”. She posted the poem, scripted in Bengali and titled “Chameleon”, on her Facebook wal…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) A fresh police complaint had been filed against the Trinamool Congress’ General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, at the Bhabanipur Police Station in Kolkata on Wednesday, accusing him of making objectionable social media statements on May 2, two days before the results of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections, were announced. The police complaint had been filed by an individual Arnab Kanti Ghosh in the afternoon, which had been…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has sought the “elevation copy” of the building registered in the name of a company linked to the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, which will have to be attached to the reply to notice served earlier by the KMC to that property at Harish Mukherjee Road in South Kolkata.Although the same building at 188A Harish Mukherjee Road in South Kolkata, which is close to the residence of …
Mumbai, May 27 (IANS) Actor Abhishek Banerjee seems to be making the most of his mountain getaway as he shared a series of picturesque moments from his Spiti Valley vacation with wife Tina Noronha.Calling it a “new achievement unlocked”, the actor revealed through his posts on social media account, that he has completed the Spiti circuit and now aims to ‘conquer every last village of Himachal Pradesh’.Taking to his social media account, Abhishek dropped a bunch of scenic pictures from th…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Monday, granted 10 days of additional time to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to reply to notices served regarding the 17 properties owned by him. Abhishek Banerjee is also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The KMC had recently issued the notices. Municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in so…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Falta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district made it to the national lexicon last month when a political contest, framed almost like a cinematic clash with a “Singham vs. Pushpa” narrative, caught the people’s imagination. The “Singham” label was for Ajay Pal Sharma, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer known for his tough policing style and reputation as an “encounter specialist” in Uttar Pradesh. He was deployed as an Election Commission police obser…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Following the BJP’s victory in the Falta Assembly bypoll, West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Sunday claimed that the “Diamond Harbour model” associated with Trinamool Congress national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee had failed politically. As soon as the election results became clear, Adhikari launched a sharp attack on the ruling Trinamool Congress.The Falta Assembly constituency, which falls under the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat, had long been con…