Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) on Friday issued a notice to Amit Banerjee, father of Trinamool Congress national general secretary and Lok Sabha Member of Parliament Abhishek Banerjee, seeking explanations over alleged building-rule violations at two residential properties in the Kalighat area of south Kolkata. The notice directs Amit Banerjee to appear before the Buildings Department of KMC’s Borough IX office with relevant documents related to the two proper…
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Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police initiated an investigation into a complaint filed by activist Rajiv Sarkar, citing a threat to his life from Trinamool Congress General Secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee.In the complaint filed at the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police station in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, Sarkar has expressed apprehension of being murdered because of his earlier complaint launched against Abhi…
Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) A single-judge Bench of the Calcutta High Court on Thursday rejected a plea from the Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, seeking an overall protection from coercive police action, including arrest in all the eight FIRs registered against him in various cases at different police stations in West Bengal.The matter came up for hearing at the single-judge Bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. At the end of the hearing Justice Bhattacharyya made a verbal …
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday issued a notice for interrogation to former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Subhashish Chakraborty in connection with the central agency’s ongoing investigation into three frozen bank accounts, which hold a total deposit of Rs 440 crore.Chakraborty is currently treasurer of the faction in the Trinamool Congress, led by the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, and her nephew, the party’s general secret…
Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) Four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee, who has been loyal to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, seems to be turning into a rebel.In an explosive social media post made on Tuesday night, Banerjee, who is the principal person within the Mamata Banerjee-led faction in handling different court cases, has poured out his grievances on how he was insulted and interrupted again and again while he was addressing the Marty…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday served a legal notice to rebel party legislator Madan Mitra, accusing him of disseminating false, fabricated, malicious and defamatory statements against the Diamond Harbour MP through social media. In the legal notice sent to Mitra, Shrobana Sengupta, counsel for Abhishek, stated that the rebel legislator had been asked to pay Rs 10 crore as compensation for loss “of his personal rep…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday urged former West Bengal Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee not to allow the return of any leader who deserted the party or joined a rebel faction during the difficult period following the Trinamool Congress’s landslide defeat in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections.Addressing the party’s annual July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally near Birla Planetarium in central Kolk…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Mamata Banerjee, the former Chief Minister of West Bengal and current leader of the minority faction in the Trinamool Congress, accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday of trying to disrupt the Martyrs’ Day rally that her faction has organised later in the day. She also claimed that there were attempts by BJP activists to vandalise her protest rally stage in front of Birla Planetarium in Central Kolkata on Monday night.She also claimed that after hearing the …
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Kolkata Police have been on heightened alert since Tuesday morning due to three concurrent July 21 Martyrs’ Day rallies occurring in close proximity to each other. These events are being organised to honour the memory of 13 Youth Congress workers who lost their lives in police firing during a protest rally on this day in 1993, when the Left Front regime was in power, with the late Jyoti Basu serving as Chief Minister.Till last year, there used to be one Martyrs’ Day r…
New Delhi, July 20 (IANS) Between 2009 and 2014, as the Trinamool Congress grew in numbers in the Lok Sabha, its leaders, spurred by supremo Mamata Banerjee, sought prominence in Parliament, including a party office of its own.For a party that grew from single digits to 19 seats in the 2009 Lok Sabha election and 34 in 2014, the demand could be considered justified. But it chose to link it with the Left Front’s successive decline in numbers in the Lower House of Parliament, especially that of …