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…
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New Delhi, June 1 (IANS) West Bengal’s Congress leaders once used to term the Left Front as “Harmad” – a distorted version of the Spanish and Portuguese word “Armada”, which defines a fleet of warships. Fleets were said to have frequently raided the coastal regions of southern and southeastern Bengal in the 16th and 17th centuries. Over time, local people corrupted the word Armada into Harmad to describe plunderers. The term gained national attention centuries later, amidst clashes b…
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) In the past few weeks, several Opposition parties have once again pushed for the revival of the INDIA bloc or the formation of a similar anti-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) platform amid the ruling party’s expanding political footprint across the country, including in regions where it earlier struggled to open its account.After Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s call for a broader anti-BJP platform, her political rival, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), urged…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Two Trinamool Congress leaders have been arrested in two separate districts of West Bengal on charges of corruption, the police said on Tuesday. The police have arrested the Chairman of Baduria municipality, Dipankar Bhattacharya in Baduria of North 24 Parganas district. Nearly Rs 80 lakh and several bundles of tarpaulins bought with government funds were recovered from him.Meanwhile, large amount of government goods were also recovered from the house of Trinamool regional…
New Delhi, May 26 (IANS) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has called for the revival of the Opposition INDIA bloc following the recently held Assembly election results, but alleged that the Congress, the largest constituent of the alliance, took a stand contrary to unity-building. “The attitude of the Congress towards other opposition parties is not helpful in building the unity of secular forces in a united fight against the RSS-BJP, which is the need of the hour,” said a party statem…
New Delhi, May 25 (IANS) Falta in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district made it to the national lexicon last month when a political contest, framed almost like a cinematic clash with a “Singham vs. Pushpa” narrative, caught the people’s imagination. The “Singham” label was for Ajay Pal Sharma, an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer known for his tough policing style and reputation as an “encounter specialist” in Uttar Pradesh. He was deployed as an Election Commission police obser…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 21 (IANS) A telling image from Kerala’s Kannur railway station has come to symbolise the dramatic political fall of former Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and the deep crisis engulfing his Communist Party of India-Marxist after its crushing Assembly election debacle.The photograph, now viral across social media, shows the once all-powerful former Chief Minister quietly waiting for a train alongside CPI-M leader K. K. Ragesh at Kannur station with only a handful of securit…
New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) In a dramatic development on Tuesday that jolted the Trinamool Congress, raising uncomfortable questions about the durability of party General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s so-called “Diamond Harbour model”, its Falta candidate Jahangir Khan withdrew from the contest barely two days before the Assembly seat goes to re-poll. Addressing a press conference, Khan said he was stepping down in the interest of “peace and development in Falta”.The seat made headlines f…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 19 (IANS) For the first time since the stunning electoral collapse of the Left Democratic Front in the Kerala Assembly elections, former Chief Minister and now Opposition leader Pinarayi Vijayan has publicly spoken about the defeat, and his carefully worded remarks come at a time when anger and rebellion are steadily building within the Communist Party of India (Marxist) itself. Addressing a party event in his hometown of Kannur on Tuesday, Vijayan said the Left governmen…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 16 (IANS) The political slide of former Kerala Health Minister Veena George has now come sharply into focus, with the CPI-M’s powerful Pathanamthitta district committee witnessing intense criticism against the journalist-turned-politician for what several leaders allegedly described as an arrogant and inaccessible style of functioning.Once projected as one of the brightest new-generation faces of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and considered close to former Chie…