Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) Former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday rode a scooter to reach the Padmapukur area after learning that police had detained her party leaders Kunal Ghosh and Baishwanor Chatterjee. She took to the streets after receiving the news and later returned to her house in Kalighat by scooter.After returning home, Mamata Banerjee claimed on Facebook Live that permission had been sought from the police for a procession from the Padmapukur area, but it was denied. She ques…
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Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MLA Kunal Ghosh was marshalled out of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly and suspended for the remainder of the day’s proceedings after he prevented Opposition Chief Whip Akhruzzaman from speaking. Chaos erupted when Akhruzzaman rose to participate in the debate.Soon, Ghosh left his seat and stood in front of the opposition member’s microphone, raising slogans and preventing him from speaking during the budget discussion on the Home and Hill Affai…
Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) In a swift political move aimed at consolidating her control over the party organisation amid a deepening internal crisis, former West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress national chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Saturday took over as the party’s West Bengal state president, hours after Chandrima Bhattacharya resigned from the post following her decision to join the rebel faction led by expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee. Shortly after Bhattacharya officially an…
Kolkata, July 4 (IANS) In a dramatic escalation of the Trinamool Congress’s internal crisis, former West Bengal Minister of State for Finance (Independent Charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya resigned from all party posts on Saturday and immediately joined the rebel faction led by expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, dealing a severe blow to the Mamata Banerjee-led camp. Soon after submitting her resignation to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and announcing her decision to resign …
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) The ongoing tension between two rival camps in Trinamool Congress’s legislative party in the West Bengal Assembly escalated further on Friday with the “rebel but majority” faction led by expelled party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee taking control of Trinamool Congress’s main party office at Metropolitan on Eastern Metropolitan Bypass in the city this evening. A team of legislators from the party’s “rebel but majority” faction led by Ritabrata, currently the official Leader…
New Delhi, July 2 (IANS) The ECI has sought responses from Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee and expelled party leader Ritabrata Banerjee by July 6 over the claims and counterclaims by both factions headed by each of them over organisational elections/authorised signatories, official sources said on Thursday. The Election Commission of India (ECI) has written to both the leaders to submit their responses by 5.30 p.m. on July 6, said sources.The letters virtually coincided with a represen…
Kolkata, July 2 (IANS) The majority faction of the Trinamool Congress’ Legislative Party in the West Bengal Assembly, headed by the expelled party member Ritabrata Banerjee, on Thursday contended before the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) that their numerical superiority establishes their entitlement to the party’s name and election symbol.A ten-member delegation of the rebel legislators met the full bench of the ECI in the afternoon, and at the end of the meeting, Ritabrata…
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…
Kolkata, June 29 (IANS) Trinamool Congress legislator and journalist-turned-politician, Kunal Ghosh, who boasts of his continued political allegiance to former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, on Monday stated that the landslide defeat of his party in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly polls was necessary to unmask the hidden traitors within the party.Clearly targeting the “rebel majority” faction within the Trinamool Congress legislative party in the West Bengal Assembly …
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress faction led by Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Ritabrata Banerjee has removed party supremo Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee from the rebel faction of the party. At the same time, the rebel camp of Trinamool MLAs formed a new committee at a special session held at a five-star hotel in Kolkata on Monday. The new chairman of that committee is Howrah Madhya Assembly MLA Arup Roy.On Monday, after the budge…