Kolkata, May 30 (IANS) A team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Saturday visited the residence of Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee at Harish Mukherjee Road in South Kolkata. Security personnel informed the sleuths that no one had been staying there for the last few days. While the CID team was at the Harish Mukherjee Road property, Banerjee was present at the residence of the party’s state general secretary and legislator Kunal Gh…
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Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Friday announced compensation of Rs 4,00,000 for each of the families of seven people in the sudden thunderstorms in the state. These seven persons died due to lightning, electrocution and house collapse during thunderstorms in mainly Kolkata, Howrah, North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Hooghly and Purulia.The bodies of the deceased victims had been sent for post-mortem.Speaking to the media persons on Friday evening, Chief …
Kolkata, May 29 (IANS) After making himself almost homebound since the results of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections were announced on May 4 and restricting himself to occasional issuing of social media statements, Trinamool Congress’ general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, will resume his public political activities from Saturday onwards.According to information shared by Trinamool Congress on Friday, Banerjee, the three-time Lok Sabha membe…
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Trinamool Congress councillor Arup Chakraborty on Thursday resigned from the post of party spokesperson.In an email to the party leadership, he said that he was resigning for personal reasons. However, he also expressed gratitude for the trust reposed in him by the party and for being given the responsibility.Earlier on Wednesday, Arup Chakraborty had resigned from the post of member of the Accounts Committee at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).On Thursday, Arup Cha…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) Two Trinamool Congress councillors on Wednesday resigned from their posts at the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). Sushanta Ghosh resigned as the chairman of borough number 12 of KMC. He submitted his resignation letter to KMC Commissioner Smita Pandey.He was accompanied by another Trinamool councillor, Arup Chakraborty, who resigned from the post of member of the KMC’s accounts committee. However, neither leader resigned as Trinamool councillors, but only from the post…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has sought the “elevation copy” of the building registered in the name of a company linked to the Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, which will have to be attached to the reply to notice served earlier by the KMC to that property at Harish Mukherjee Road in South Kolkata.Although the same building at 188A Harish Mukherjee Road in South Kolkata, which is close to the residence of …
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) A bulldozer drive was carried out on Monday at a multi-storey building under construction by Trinamool Congress leader and promoter-real estate developer Raju Naskar, triggering tension in the area.People who had booked flats in the project turned furious and allegedly thrashed a close associate of Raju Naskar after an argument broke out in front of his office. Police and central forces reached the spot to bring the situation under control.The Kolkata Municipal Corporation…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), on Monday, granted 10 days of additional time to Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, to reply to notices served regarding the 17 properties owned by him. Abhishek Banerjee is also the nephew of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.The KMC had recently issued the notices. Municipality officials also put up a notice on the wall of his house on Harish Mukherjee Road in so…
Kolkata, May 25 (IANS) The cops of New Market Police Station under the central division of the Kolkata Police, on Monday morning, issued summons to the Member-Mayor in Council of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Baiswanor Chattopadhyay, on charges of heckling and physically assaulting the Corporation’s secretary, Kishore Kumar Biswas on Friday.A police complaint was lodged by Kishore Kumar Biswas at the New Market Police Station, under whose jurisdiction the KMC Building in central Kolka…
Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Three weeks after the Assembly election results, former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday once again alleged that the Trinamool Congress did not lose the West Bengal Assembly elections and claimed that the Election Commission helped the BJP secure victory in the state. She also alleged that she was defeated “by force” in the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.Speaking on the day the results of the Falta Assembly by-election were declared, the Trinamool Congress su…