Kolkata, May 31 (IANS) Signs of internal discord within the Trinamool Congress came to the fore on Sunday after a meeting of the Trinamool Legislative Party at the residence of party supremo and former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was called off following poor attendance by MLAs.The meeting had been convened by Trinamool Legislative Party leader Sovandeb Chattopadhyay at Mamata Banerjee’s Kalighat residence. According to party sources, the venue was chosen to underline the importan…
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Kolkata, May 31 (IANS) Police conducted a search operation at Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra’s house in the Kamarhati area of North 24 Parganas district on Sunday.Barrackpore Police Commissionerate Deputy Commissioner (South) Dyutiman Bhattacharya led the search operation.When the police reached Madan Mitra’s house on Sunday afternoon, it was locked and the MLA was not present. However, the police broke open the lock and entered the premises. After conducting a search for around an hour, the…
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Veteran Trinamool Congress leader and four-time party Lok Sabha member from Dum Dum constituency in North 24 Parganas district, Saugata Roy, was heckled by members of the public within his own constituency on Thursday afternoon after he came out of a police station following the submission of a memorandum.On Thursday evening, Roy, a retired professor of physics by profession, went to Nimta Police Station to submit a memorandum seeking action over the alleged assault on Tri…
Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MLA Madan Mitra was admitted to a hospital after falling ill, said party leaders on Tuesday. He was admitted to a hospital in South Kolkata on Monday evening. According to hospital sources, the Trinamool MLA has urinary problems. He has been kept under observation by doctors.Hospital sources also informed that Madan’s physical condition is stable for now, and he is responding positively to treatment. However, Mitra’s close aides said that he has been und…
New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) In February 2019, Mamata Banerjee wrote an 18-line poem titled ‘Key’, lamenting what she saw as a ‘shrinking’ democratic space under the regime at the Centre. The poem spoke of voices being stifled, of lips metaphorically locked, and of a reckoning that would one day confront those in power. It was a political message wrapped in verse — sharp, accusatory, and unambiguous in its intent. Seven years on, those very lines seem to echo differently — an uncomfortable reflecti…
New Delhi, Dec 20 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Saturday, launched a sharp attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of deliberately trying to provoke riots between Hindu and Muslim communities through communal politics, as she senses an impending defeat for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the 2026 state Assembly elections. Addressing a press conference at the BJP headquarters, National Spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia questioned Banerjee’s silence over controver…