Kolkata, July 8 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday again avoided appearing at the Bidhannagar Court in North 24 Parganas district in West Bengal to give his voice samples in connection with a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe into an alleged hate speech case linked to the recent Assembly elections. Banerjee, as directed by the same court, was supposed to appear at the court by 12 noon on Wednesday to give his voice samples in the presence of th…
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Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) As internal factionalism in the Trinamool Congress becomes more acute with every passing day, the CPI(M), which currently has only one representative in the West Bengal Assembly, is working on a well-calculated strategy to regain the space of the principal opposition party in the state as fast as possible. The logic of the CPI(M) leadership on this count is simple. While the “original and minority” faction in Trinamool Congress led by former West Bengal Chief Minister Mama…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED), whose officials conducted day-long raid and search operations at multiple locations in Kolkata since Tuesday in connection with its probe into transactions linked to three bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress on which “debit restrictions” were recently imposed following directions from the West Bengal Police, is specially examining doubtful debit transactions worth Rs 150 crore from these three bank accounts. In the simultaneous raid an…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) Legal pressure mounted on Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday after the Calcutta High Court questioned his reluctance to provide voice samples in connection with a Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probe into an alleged hate speech case linked to the recent West Bengal Assembly elections. The case relates to a campaign rally where Banerjee was accused of making violence-inciting remarks and allegedly…
Kolkata, July 7 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday launched a money laundering probe into transactions linked to three bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress on which “debit restrictions” were recently imposed following directions from the West Bengal Police, which is conducting a parallel investigation in the case.Multiple ED teams, accompanied by heavily armed Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel, carried out simultaneous raids and search operations at several location…
Kolkata, July 6 (IANS) The two rival factions in the Trinamool Congress, both claiming the rights to the party name and election symbol, and subsequently over the party’s funds, on Monday submitted documents placing their respective arguments to the Election Commission of India (ECI) headquarters in New Delhi. On one hand, Lok Sabha members Kalyan Banerjee and Mahua Moitra, and the party’s Rajya Sabha member, Sagarika Ghose, who are representing the “original but minority” faction led by former …
Kolkata, July 6 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday announced that by-elections to the three vacant Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal will be held on July 24, with the results to be declared on the same day. The by-elections for the vacant seats have been necessitated by the resignations of three Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha members, namely Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik. They resigned from the party soon after the results of the West Bengal ele…
Kolkata, July 6 (IANS) The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the alleged rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl at Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal has arrested one more accused in the case.With the fresh action following overnight raid and search operations, the total arrests in this connection so far have reached two. The first accused was arrested on Sunday evening. Both the arrested persons will be presented before a district court on Monday, and the police will se…
Kolkata, July 6 (IANS) The deadline for submission of documents to the Election Commission of India (ECI) office regarding the right to the Trinamool Congress name and election symbol by the two rival factions in the party — one led by former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, and the other, a rebel but majority faction, led by expelled party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee — is ending at 5.30 p.m. on Monday.Now, after both factions have submitted their …
Kolkata, July 5 (IANS) The “original but minority” faction in the Trinamool Congress, which continues its allegiance towards former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, has alleged a deliberate and massive deployment of state and central forces in front of the residence of the two leaders at Kalighat in south Kolkata, allegedly to prevent them from visiting the family of a child who was allegedly raped and murdered in Baruipur in South 24 Parganas district…