Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Doctor and Trinamool Congress leader, Santanu Sen, resigned from the post of the party’s All-India Spokesperson, by sending a letter to former Chief Minister and Trinamool supremo, Mamata Banerjee on Thursday.The former Rajya Sabha MP said that he has decided to leave the post after accepting the verdict of the people in state Assembly elections.Santanu had spoken out about hospital corruption after the rape and murder of a junior doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospi…
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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…
New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday took a swipe at Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, saying that the latter will soon complete a “century of defeats” in the next election.The reaction followed as several Congress leaders, like Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, have frequently projected LoP Gandhi as the leader who can head the INDIA bloc. However, other members of the Opposition alliance, including the Samajwadi Party and the Trinamool Co…
Kolkata, May 28 (IANS) Kolkata witnessed a change in arrangements for Eid al-Adha (Bakrid) prayers on Thursday, with namaz held at Brigade Parade Ground instead of the customary Red Road venue, for the first time in years.After several years, the prayers were not conducted on Red Road, where they had traditionally been held twice a year — during Eid ul-Fitr and Eid al-Adha — under previous regimes, including the Left Front (1977-2011) and the Trinamool Congress (2011-2026).During the Trinamool…
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 27 (IANS) As internal crisis within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) escalates, with several party leaders and elected public representatives targeting the party’s general secretary and Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, over the party’s landslide defeat, former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has chosen to counter the rebels within the party by penning a poem on the theme of a “chameleon”. She posted the poem, scripted in Bengali and titled “Chameleon”, on her Facebook wal…
Kolkata, May 27 (IANS) A fresh police complaint had been filed against the Trinamool Congress’ General Secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, at the Bhabanipur Police Station in Kolkata on Wednesday, accusing him of making objectionable social media statements on May 2, two days before the results of the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections, were announced. The police complaint had been filed by an individual Arnab Kanti Ghosh in the afternoon, which had been…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Mahamandaleshwar Swami Kailashanand Giri Maharaj on Wednesday praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for what he described as bringing “unprecedented respect” to Sanatan culture, traditions and the country’s spiritual heritage during his 12 years in office.Speaking to IANS, Swami Kailashanand Giri said that under PM Modi’s leadership, religious centres such as Kedarnath, Kashi Vishwanath, Ayodhya, Badrinath and Ujjain Mahakal have gained national and global prominence like…
New Delhi, May 27 (IANS) Opposition leaders, particularly the Congress, on Wednesday targeted the BJP, alleging that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls had been misused for the benefit of one political party. Further, they questioned that if the deleted voters regain their right to vote after filing appeals, will the elections which have already been conducted, be still considered valid?The response came after the Supreme Court upheld the Election Commission of India’s (EC…
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 …