Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari told the State Assembly on Tuesday that a Bill with new and more stringent anti-corruption legal provisions will be moved on the floor of the House on the last day of the ongoing budget session on June 25. Participating in a debate over the budget proposals of the state Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta, which was tabled on the floor of the West Bengal Assembly on Monday, the Chief Minister said that once the new law will be impl…
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Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday approached the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to travel abroad. The Diamond Harbour MP drew attention to the matter before the bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. The case is likely to be heard later this week. It is initially learnt that Abhishek Banerjee wants to travel abroad for eye treatment. The Trinamool leader of the Mamata Banerjee-led faction has sought seven days’ permission in this…
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) The “rebel but majority” faction within the Trinamool Congress legislative party in the West Bengal assembly, led by expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, will approach the Election Commission of India (ECI) immediately after the ongoing budget session of the assembly. They will stake the legitimacy of the party’s new national working committee (NWC), formed by them, excluding former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, the party’s general …
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) Amid the ongoing controversy surrounding the “real” Trinamool Congress, party MP Saugata Roy on Tuesday claimed that 90 per cent of workers are still with party supremo Mamata Banerjee.His reaction came a day after the Trinamool Congress faction led by Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Ritabrata Banerjee, removed Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee from the rebel faction of the party.Speaking to IANS, Saugata Roy said: “A …
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) The cyber police in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district has launched a detailed investigation into three bank accounts belonging to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) that were recently placed under debit freeze following police directions.Sources familiar with the investigation at the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police Station under the Bidhannagar City Police said officers are scrutinising inward and outward transactions in these accounts over the past five years. The probe …
Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee-aligned faction in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI), furnishing details of what it claims is the party’s original national working committee.The faction, describing itself as the “original but minority” group loyal to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, asserted that its list represents the “real” national working committee, counteri…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress faction led by Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Ritabrata Banerjee has removed party supremo Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee from the rebel faction of the party. At the same time, the rebel camp of Trinamool MLAs formed a new committee at a special session held at a five-star hotel in Kolkata on Monday. The new chairman of that committee is Howrah Madhya Assembly MLA Arup Roy.On Monday, after the budge…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) Trinamool Congress, led by former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday filed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) in the Calcutta High Court, seeking intervention to stop the throwing of eggs on party leaders and workers. The PIL has been filed before the division bench of the Acting Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court, Tapabrata Chakraborty. Lawyer Prabhanya Banerjee filed the case and requested an urgent hearing. The matter is likely to be heard on Tuesday.The p…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has reportedly directed party leaders, legislators, and MPs, who continue to remain loyal to her camp, to exercise extreme caution while reacting to the government’s first state Budget to be presented by newly appointed Finance Minister Swapan Dasgupta. According to party sources, Banerjee held a closed-door meeting at her Kalighat residence in south Kolkata on Sunday with a section of Trin…
Kolkata, June 21 (IANS) The group of 20 rebel Trinamool Congress’s Lok Sabha members, led by two four-time Lok Sabha members, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar and Stabdi Roy, who recently joined the virtually non-existent and Tripura-based National Citizens Party of India (NCPI), is considering filing a defamation suit against Lok Sabha MP Mahua Moitra, over a recent “libellous” social media post by the latter against the rebel MPs. Recently, a controversy surfaced over a social media post by Mahu…