Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader and former MLA Asit Majumdar was arrested by police on Tuesday while on his way to former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s July 21 rally in Kolkata. The former MLA of Chunchura Assembly constituency and president of the Hooghly district committee of Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Trinamool, has been taken to the police station. The reason for the arrest is not yet known. However, the party alleged that the police stopped the leader as he was go…
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Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) The faction in the Trinamool Congress, led by former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Tuesday sought the attention of a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court about the alleged vandalism at the stage of the party’s Martyrs’ Day rally scheduled later in the day.Earlier, the Mamata Banerjee-faction sent an email communique to the office of the Calcutta High Court’s Acting Chief Justice Tapabrata Chakraborty complaining about the vandalism on Monda…
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) The statement of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was not recorded in the report of the Justice Susanta Chatterjee (Retired) Commission, which the previous Trinamool Congress government constituted to probe the deaths of 13 Youth Congress workers in police firing during a protest rally on July 21, 1993, said Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. CM Adhikari tabled the Justice Susanta Chatterjee (Retired) Commission report, which was not made public during the …
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday announced that he would make public later in the day the findings of the Justice Susanta Chatterjee Commission, constituted by the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government to probe the deaths of 13 Youth Congress workers in police firing during a protest rally on July 21, 1993.The Chief Minister announced this while speaking in the Assembly on the opening day of the extended budget session.Incidentall…
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) On the occasion of National Doctors’ Day, West Bengal Chief Minister, Suvendu Adhikari, on Wednesday launched a scathing attack against the previous Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress regime and accused it of totally ruining the healthcare system in the state.Speaking at a function on the occasion of National Doctor’s Day at Bidhannagar Hospital on the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Wednesday morning, the Chief Minister said that total devastation created in the …
Kolkata, July 1 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress faction, which continues its allegiance to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, has decided to approach the Calcutta High Court challenging the Kolkata Police’s decision to impose prohibitory orders in central Kolkata where the party organises Martyrs’ Day on July 21 every year.On Tuesday, the Kolkata Police informed both factions that this year’s Martyrs’ Day would not be allowed to be organised …
Kolkata, June 30 (IANS) The annual ‘Martyrs’ Day’ rally of Trinamool Congress will not be allowed this time at the old and traditional venue in front of CESC House at the busy Esplanade crossing in central Kolkata, the police on Tuesday informed both factions of the party.Both factions — one led by former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee and the other led by the expelled party legislator, Ritabrata Banerjee — have sought police permission to conduc…
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 26 (IANS) The district-level core committees of the BJP in West Bengal will maintain coordination with the new state administration to ensure smooth implementation of various development projects, especially those which are centrally-sponsored.Insiders from the Bengal unit of the BJP said that on May 15, the party’s central observer for the state, Sunil Bansal had directed the completion of setting up of district level core committees at the earliest.“Already the names of the re…
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…