Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) The first meeting of the new block in the Trinamool Congress Legislative Party in the West Bengal Assembly, which is now the recognised group and the official principal opposition party in the state as per records of the House, will be held on Thursday.The meeting, to be held on the Assembly premises, will be chaired by Ritabrata Banerjee, the ‘expelled’ Trinamool Congress legislator from Uluberia (Purba) constituency in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district.Ritabrata is now th…
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Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) Kolkata Police on Wednesday night informed that Trinamool Congress councillor of ward number 42 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), Mahesh Kumar Sharma, had been arrested on charges of corruption and extortion. According to a statement issued by the Kolkata Police, Sharma was arrested in a case filed at Burrabazar Police Station under the North Division.There are charges against him under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (previously the Indian…
New Delhi, June 3 (IANS) Many Trinamool Congress MLAs and MPs have reportedly been missing since the Mamata Banerjee-led party lost the West Bengal Assembly election and has since been visibly disintegrating. Among them, most notably, are several women representatives who had otherwise been vociferous in defending the party and its leader.Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari on Wednesday appeared to raise the issue through a meme posted on social media platform X.T…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The portfolio allocation of the new West Bengal Cabinet under the leadership of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, which was supposed to be finalised and announced on Wednesday, has been postponed by a couple of days.Sources aware of the development said that the matter will be finalised and the portfolio allocation of the expanded Cabinet will, in all probability, be announced on June 5.Initially, it was decided that the portfolio allocation would be finalised at an importa…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) Former state minister Firhad Hakim on Wednesday resigned as the Mayor of Kolkata. According to Trinamool Congress sources, he took the decision after taking permission from party supremo Mamata Banerjee. On Wednesday, several Trinamool MLAs reached the state secretariat Nabanna to attend an administrative meeting at the invitation of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. Among them was Kolkata Port MLA Firhad Hakim. He resigned from the post of Mayor of Kolkata after returning …
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday served a notice for interrogation to Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee in connection with the central agency’s ongoing investigation into the multi-crore cash-for-school job case in West Bengal. He has been asked to be present at the ED’s office at the Central Government Office (CGO) Complex at Salt Lake in the northern outskirts of Kolkata on June 15.Sources aware of the developmen…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in West Bengal on Wednesday took several key decisions in its third cabinet meeting after coming to power in the state. The previous Mamata Banerjee government had created Maa Canteens during the Covid-19 period, where food was provided at various locations for Rs 5. The cabinet, chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, decided that the project will remain, but its name will be changed.After the meeting, cabinet members Dilip …
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) Rathindra Bose, the new Speaker of the West Bengal Assembly, on Wednesday accepted the resolution of the new block in Trinamool Congress’s legislative party as both the official Trinamool Congress block and the principal opposition party in the House.Earlier in the day, 58 out of the 80 elected legislators of Trinamool Congress, led by expelled party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee, submitted a resolution carrying the signatures of the 58 legislators, seeking recognition bot…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday claimed that more political setbacks are waiting for the Trinamool Congress supremo and former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for all the misdeeds committed by her and her party members during the previous 15-year Trinamool Congress government in the state led by her from 2011 to 2026. BJP’s Information Technology Cell Chief and the party’s central observer and Co-Incharge for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, made this ob…
Kolkata, June 3 (IANS) After the formation of a new group in Trinamool Congress’ legislative party in the West Bengal Assembly under the leadership of the expelled legislator, Ritabrata Banerjee, on Wednesday, the party’s original block, maintaining its allegiance towards former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, has announced the dissolution of all internal committees.A statement issued on the official social media handle of “All India Trin…