Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) In another setback to the Trinamool Congress, former state minister and ex-MLA Manish Gupta on Thursday announced his decision to quit the Mamata Banerjee-led party. Although he has not yet officially submitted his resignation letter, he has clearly told the media that he no longer feels he has a role in the Trinamool Congress, which is why he has decided to leave the party.However, new political speculation has started surrounding his announcement.Manish Gupta said that …
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Kolkata, June 27 (IANS) West Bengal unit of Congress, this year, will organise a protest on July 21 to counter Trinamool Congress’s annual Martyrs’ Day rally, which the latter holds every year to condemn the killing of 13 youth Congress workers on this date in 1993 during the erstwhile CPI(M)-led Left Front regime with nonagenarian Indian Marxist Late Jyoti Basu as the Chief Minister. Observing the Martyrs’ Day on July 21 was initially a Congress affair till Mamata Banerjee formed the Trin…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Ritabrata Banerjee, till now a politician who largely remained in shadows — except when mired in allegations and controversies — has evolved this week as the face of a massive rebellion within the Trinamool Congress. His initial ascent was marked in the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) from becoming the all India General Secretary of Students Federation of India (SFI) to his nomination to Rajya Sabha.His subsequent expulsion over allegations of a “lavish lifest…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) West Bengal Minister Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday launched a sharp attack on former Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee, dismissing her allegations of ‘illegal houses’ in Gujarat and criticising her recent protest.Reacting to Banerjee’s claim that 70 per cent of houses in Gujarat are illegal, Ghosh questioned the basis of her remarks. “Did she go and check it herself whether it is legal or illegal? Their own house is illegal; keep this in mind f…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) As an expression of political courtesy, the elected legislators from the opposition Trinamool Congress from eight districts in North Bengal have received invitations to attend the administrative review meeting for the region to be chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari at Siliguri in Darjeeling district on Wednesday.“Trinamool is the only opposition party in the state which has elected legislators from the eight districts of North Bengal. Accordingly, all 14 Trinamoo…
Kolkata, May 16 (IANS) Sajal Ghosh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s newly elected legislator from Baranagar Assembly constituency in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district and a party Councillor in Kolkata Municipal Corporation, on Saturday hinted at the possibilities of the deletion of chapters on land movement at Singur in Hooghly district and Nandigram in East Midnapore district spearheaded by the Trinamool Congress during the former Chief Minister late Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee-led Left F…
Kolkata, May 11 (IANS) The first meeting of the first Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led West Bengal cabinet, led by the ninth Chief Minister of the state, Suvendu Adhikari, will be held at the current state secretariat at Nabanna in Mandirtala, Howrah district, on Monday.Although the BJP had decided that its ministers would operate from the original state secretariat, the Writers’ Buildings, in central Kolkata, where renovations are taking longer, the new cabinet, including the Chief Minister, …
New Delhi, May 9 (IANS) West Bengal’s new Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday took oath of office and secrecy in a grand ceremony at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground, heading a tiny yet well-represented cabinet in terms of gender, region, and experience. It will be the first Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state. It will also be the first time in 55 years that the government will be headed by someone from outside Kolkata.Suvendu hails from Purba Medinipur district in …
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) As the first BJP-ruled government in West Bengal since Independence, led by Suvendu Adhikari, began its journey in the state on Saturday with the oath-taking ceremony of the new Cabinet, the new dispensation had already sent a message of mutual cooperation between the ruling and Opposition parties.’Ganashakti’, the CPI(M)’s party organ in Bengali, on Saturday received a full-page state government-released advertisement on the oath ceremony that took place this morning. The …
Kolkata, May 8 (IANS) Mamata Banerjee is officially now a “former Chief Minister” of West Bengal, following Governor R.N. Ravi’s announcement of the dissolution of the state Legislative Assembly, which also means the automatic end of the previous state Cabinet led by her.The Governor announced this on Thursday evening. However, in her official social media handles (both X and Facebook), she continues to retain the ‘Chief Minister of West Bengal’ information.A click on the about section of bo…