Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) In what appears to be a widening rift within the Trinamool Congress, the party’s Chief Whip in the Lok Sabha, Kalyan Banerjee on Thursday refuted the allegations made against him by fellow MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, and said that he would now write to Speaker Om Birla seeking he provide the sanction sought by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to prosecute her in the Narada sting operation case. Notably, sanctions in the case were also sought against Trinamool MPs Sa…
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Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, on Thursday, wrote a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking his permission to file an official complaint against Kalyan Banerjee, the Chief Whip of her own party in the Lower House of Parliament and also a four-time MP.In her letter to the Lok Sabha Speaker, Gosh Dastidar, a medical practitioner in private life, has accused Banerjee of misconduct within the Lok Sabha, along with instances of sho…
Kolkata, May 26 (IANS) Days after senior MP, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, resigned as Trinamool’s Barasat organisational district president, she attended Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari’s administrative meeting on Tuesday, sparking speculation about her next move. Not only Dastidar, but three Trinamool MLAs from North 24 Parganas district were also present at the administrative meeting at Kalyani in Nadia district.Kakoli attended the meeting with the administrative officers of North 24 Parganas, Nadia…
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Sunday claimed that Congress selected V.D. Satheesan as the Chief Minister of Kerala due to pressure from the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML). He also labelled the grand old party as the “Islamic National Caliphate”, accusing it of being anti-Hindu.Speaking to IANS, Poonawalla said: “We had already said that V.D. Satheesan is not the Chief Minister of the Congress, but was chosen as the first Chief Minister of t…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo and the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Thursday reinstated the party’s four-time Lok Sabha member from Sreerampur constituency in Hooghly district and senior advocate, Kalyan Banerjee, as the Chief Whip of Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party in the Lok Sabha. Nearly nine months ago, Kalyan Banerjee had suddenly resigned from the same position and was replaced by four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from Barasat…
Kolkata, May 14 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday appeared at the Calcutta High Court as a counsel to argue in a public interest litigation (PIL) filed at the division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen on the post-poll violence following the results of the recently-concluded Assembly polls.The PIL was filed by Sirsanya Banerjee, a counsel with the Calcutta High Court and the son of senior advocate and four-time Trinamool Congress …
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress has moved the Calcutta High Court seeking its intervention into post-poll violence in the state post the declaration of West Bengal Assembly election results.Trinamool MP and lawyer Kalyan Banerjee’s son Sirsanya Banerjee, who has filed this Public Interest Litigation (PIL), on Tuesday, mentioned the matter before the division bench of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and requested an urgent hearing on the petition.The lawyer alleged that more than 2.000 Tri…
Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) A day before the second phase of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress, on Tuesday, again approached the Calcutta High Court against the preventive arrests conducted in the state from April 26 morning till April 27 evening as per instructions of the Election Commission of India (ECI).On Monday evening, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, informed that 1,095 preventive arrests were made in the last 24 hours since Sunday evenin…
Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Wednesday, ruled that preventive arrests in view of the two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal starting from April 23 can be done in accordance with the provisions of the prevention laws. The Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujay Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen passed this ruling on a petition filed apprehending arrests of around 800 Trinamool Congress leaders and workers following instr…
Kolkata, April 20 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned actress and former Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan in connection with the ration scam, officials of the central probe agency said on Monday.She has been asked to appear at the agency’s CGO Complex office in Salt Lake on Wednesday (April 22) — a day ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections — for questioning in the case. However, the actress and former Basirhat MP has not yet responded to the summon…