Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) Contraceptives, a bed and dressing table were discovered inside a ward office of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation office last night after it was opened. The ward office, which used to be run by Trinamool Congress, was found locked since the state Assembly elections results were declared on May 4.After it was opened, the ward office turned out to be a luxurious place with multiple air conditioners and sofas in several rooms.MLA of the area and state Health Minister Dr. Sh…
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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) 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 on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court after the police decided to freeze three of its bank accounts. The party sought the court’s intervention to determine under whose permission and for what reason the accounts were frozen. Trinamool lawyers sought permission to file a case before the bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. The court accepted the application, and the formal hearing may begin later this week. The three Trinamool accounts are said to…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) Former West Bengal minister and ex-Trinamool Congress treasurer Aroop Biswas has blamed the party leadership for keeping him in the dark over the use of party funds, in his response to a show-cause notice issued to him in connection with the freezing of party bank accounts, party leaders said on Monday.The controversy began after Biswas, in his capacity as treasurer, wrote to a private bank requesting the freezing of three Trinamool Congress accounts amid a dispute over c…
Kolkata, June 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district of West Bengal, Mahua Moitra, on Sunday, ridiculed the National Citizens Party of India (NCPI)’s claims of being “pro-poor” on the latter’s social media handle.In her own social media post on Sunday, Moitra also expressed doubts about how long the NCPI will be able to retain its “pro-poor” image amid the joining of 20 rebel Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members with the virtual…
Kolkata, June 20 (IANS) Amid a series of resignations of erstwhile Trinamool Congress leaders over the past few days, seeking relief from all organisational posts held earlier, party supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday reconstituted the party’s internal disciplinary committee. The five members of the new internal disciplinary committee include the leader of the Trinamool Congress’s Parliamentary Party in Rajya Sabha, Derek O’Brien, his colleague in the Rajya Sabha, Dola Sen, party legislat…
Kolkata, June 20 (IANS) The Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has given a notice to the popular south Kolkata club Suruchi Sangha to vacate the land it has forcibly occupied by July 18. LIC said if the land is not vacated by July 18, strict legal action will be taken against them. A notice regarding this was posted on the wall of the Suruchi Sangha club on Saturday. LIC made it clear through its lawyer that the area must be vacated within a specified time frame.Former state minister Aroop Biswas …