New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) In an overwhelming mandate in West Bengal, electors have categorically expressed their distrust and disappointment with the Trinamool Congress government by voting out its leader, Mamata Banerjee, along with most of her cabinet members from their respective offices, after 15 uninterrupted years in power. It was for the first time that the BJP registered a victory in West Bengal, which is known as the birthplace of its precursor, the Jana Sangh. Of the 35 ministers in Mama…
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Kolkata, April 12 (IANS) Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s great-grandson Chandra Kumar Bose on Sunday joined the Trinamool Congress after completely disassociating himself from the BJP.Bose was officially inducted into the party at Trinamool Bhavan in the presence of state minister Bratya Basu and party MP Kirti Azad, who handed him the Trinamool flag.Earlier, after being called for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing, Chandra Bose became disillusioned with the BJP, wondering why there was …
Kolkata, March 28 (IANS) Hours after Union Home Minister Amit Shah presented a charge sheet against the Mamata Banerjee government, Trinamool Congress launched an attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre, presenting a counter‑charge sheet in response to Shah’s claims. On Saturday, the Mamata Banerjee‑led party presented a 15‑page charge sheet titled “Mota Bhai, We Demand Answers.”Senior Trinamool Congress leader and state minister Bratya Basu, Members of Parliame…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Thursday expressed apprehension over possible attempts to hack electronic voting machines (EVMs) to be used in the crucial two-phase polling in West Bengal next month.The party’s Lok Sabha member from Jadavpur constituency in South 24 Parganas district, actor-turned-politician Sayani Ghosh, made the remarks while speaking to the media on Thursday afternoon at a press conference jointly addressed with West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu.”W…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of appointing the police officer husband of a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from neighbouring Bihar as the police observer for four Assembly constituencies in minority-dominated Malda district for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly polls.In a joint press conference, state Education Minister Bratya Basu and party MP Partha Bhowmik claimed that the wife of the said Indian Police Service …
Kolkata, Feb 27 (IANS) 2018 Asian Games Heptathlon gold medal winner Swapna Barman joined the Trinamool Congress on Friday She is also likely to be a Trinamool candidate from any of the assembly constituencies in her native district of Jalpaiguri in the forthcoming Assembly elections.Barman arrived at the Trinamool Bhavan, the state headquarters of Trinamool, on Friday afternoon and was welcomed into the party by state Education Minister Bratya Basu and Minister of State for Finance (Independent…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) A political slugfest has surfaced in West Bengal over the appointment of former additional director general (South Bengal), Supratim Sarkar as the new Commissioner of Kolkata Police, which was officially announced by the West Bengal Police Directorate on Friday.Top BJP leaders from West Bengal claimed that Sarkar was gifted with the post by the Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government for managing the tension at Sandeshkhali, a conglomeration of islands in North 24 Parga…
Kolkata, Jan 28 (IANS) Aruna Mardi, the first wife of West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) two-time Lok Sabha MP and state tribal front president Khagen Murmu, joined the Trinamool Congress in Kolkata on Wednesday. Senior Trinamool Congress leader and State Education Minister Bratya Basu and State Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Forests, Birbaha Hansda, handed Aruna Mardi the Trinamool flag at the party’s headquarters.During the joining ceremony, Bratya Basu introduced the new T…