Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jahangir Khan was arrested by Bengal police near the India-Nepal border on Monday, in connection with an extortion case, officials said. The arrest brings to an end days of police chase as the Falta candidate had been on the run and was evading law enforcement agencies despite multiple criminal investigations against him. Jahangir Khan, who attained popularity as ‘Pushpa’ during Bengal Assembly elections was arrested by the Special Task …
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Kolkata, June 7 (IANS) The Bengal Police on Sunday arrested Mohammad Jasimuddin, a Trinamool Congress councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on charges of molestation and harassment of a minor girl. With this, a total of eight Trinamool Congress councillors of KMC have been arrested over various charges since the change of government in the state.Jasimuddin is a Trinamool councillor of ward number 39 in Jorasanko area in central Kolkata. He was arrested from his house in the afternoo…
Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Saturday that the attack on Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee was the result of “public anger and resentment” towards the previous ruling party in West Bengal.Abhishek Banerjee was severely heckled on Saturday after he reached Sonarpur in South 24 Paragans district of West Bengal to meet a party worker who reportedly became a victim of post-poll violence after May 4, when the results…
Kolkata, May 2 (IANS) People in the West Bengal’s Falta Assembly constituency on Saturday staged a protest against alleged “hooliganism” by Trinamool Congress activists. The locals claimed that voting in the area has been “rigged” in the last 15 years and urged for re-polling before the results of the Assembly elections are announced on May 4.Locals in the Hashim Nagar area of the constituency alleged that Trinamool Congress leader Israfil Chakdar has threatened women and children in the area.”Y…
New Delhi, Jan 8 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Spokesperson and Lok Sabha MP Dr. Sambit Patra launched a scathing attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of unprecedented interference in an Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid linked to a corruption and hawala case.Addressing the media, Patra alleged that Banerjee personally entered the premises of IPAC, a political consultancy firm, during the raid and removed crucial documents, laptops, and pen drives, ther…