Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) A single judge special bench of Calcutta High Court, that conducted an urgent hearing on Sunday afternoon on the petition filed by the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee, challenging the demolition of his party office at Amtala in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, ordered the administration of a “status quo” in the matter till further court orders.This means that although the Calcutta High Court directed the state admin…
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Kolkata, July 19 (IANS) Despite being a holiday, an urgent hearing has been scheduled on Sunday afternoon at a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on the petition filed by the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, challenging the demolition of his party office at Amtala in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district. The demolition started on Saturday and continued on Sunday morning.The matter will be heard at a special bench of Justice Raja Basu Ch…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) All the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) offices in West Bengal will be demolished after the Trinamool Congress comes to power in West Bengal in 2031, said Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday, reacting to the demolition of his party office at Amtala in South 24 Parganas district earlier in the day. “We have already sent an email to the OSD of the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice attaching all the videos of the d…
Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) The hearing on the petition filed by the “original but minority” faction in Trinamool Congress challenging the decision of the West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose regarding the appointment of Ritabrata Banerjee, the leader of the “rebel but majority” faction in the party, as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the House concluded on Friday at a division bench of the Calcutta High Court. However, the division bench of Justice Sampa Sarkar and Justice Ajay Kumar G…
Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday extended the interim protection from coercive police actions, including arrest for Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, in the ongoing Criminal Investigation Department (CID) enquiry in the case of mismatch in the signatures of some Trinamool Congress legislators on a document pertaining to appointments of some crucial slots in the West Bengal Assembly that are r…
New Delhi, July 17 (IANS) Trinamool Congress factions are racing to own “July 21 Martyrs’ Day” for a symbolic claim on political legitimacy and a live test of organisational strength, while Congress party’s invitation to Mamata Banerjee to join its event — on condition that she admits that leaving the party was a “mistake” — is a tactical bid to reclaim the day’s history while exposing the former Chief Minister’s weakened position. The date commemorates the 1993 Youth Congress march, led by Ma…
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Thursday granted temporary protection to Sumit Roy, executive assistant of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, from coercive action until next Tuesday. The case was listed before Justice Tirthankar Ghosh, but the hearing was postponed as state lawyers could not attend due to the Rath Yatra. The next hearing has been scheduled for Monday, July 20.In a verbal order, Justice Ghosh said investigators cannot arrest Roy or take strict action agai…
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking the scrapping of the FIR registered against him by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the legislators’ signatures mismatch case. Earlier, senior Trinamool legislator Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had challenged a CID notice in the matter before the High Court.Based on Banerjee’s petition, the High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the West Ben…
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asked potential fence-sitters in her Trinamool Congress faction to quit before July 21 if they plan to join the rebel camp led by expelled leader Ritabrata Banerjee. Her Facebook Live message came soon after former Trinamool Congress legislator from Rajarhat-Newtown constituency in North 24 Parganas, Tapas Chatterjee, gave hints earlier in the day about his decision to quit the Mamata Banerjee-led faction and j…
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) The West Bengal mass education extension and library services department has decided to launch a full-fledged probe into alleged irregularities in procurement of books for government-run libraries and also libraries in state-run schools during the Trinamool regime.Several complaints have been received by the office of the Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, about rampant corruption in purchase of books with pathetic literary or content qualities by the state-run libraries j…