Kolkata, July 23 (IANS) Kolkata Police have filed a suo motu complaint against the Mamata Banerjee-led faction in Trinamool Congress, accusing the latter of “contempt of court” while organising the Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21 at the Cathedral Road in front of Birla Planetarium in Central Kolkata.In the complaint filed at Hastings Police Station under the South Division of Kolkata Police, the Mamata Banerjee-led faction has been accused of violating the Calcutta High Court order of holdin…
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Kolkata, July 22 (IANS) Four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee, who has been loyal to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, seems to be turning into a rebel.In an explosive social media post made on Tuesday night, Banerjee, who is the principal person within the Mamata Banerjee-led faction in handling different court cases, has poured out his grievances on how he was insulted and interrupted again and again while he was addressing the Marty…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader and former MLA Asit Majumdar was arrested by police on Tuesday while on his way to former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s July 21 rally in Kolkata. The former MLA of Chunchura Assembly constituency and president of the Hooghly district committee of Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Trinamool, has been taken to the police station. The reason for the arrest is not yet known. However, the party alleged that the police stopped the leader as he was go…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Mamata Banerjee, the former Chief Minister of West Bengal and current leader of the minority faction in the Trinamool Congress, accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday of trying to disrupt the Martyrs’ Day rally that her faction has organised later in the day. She also claimed that there were attempts by BJP activists to vandalise her protest rally stage in front of Birla Planetarium in Central Kolkata on Monday night.She also claimed that after hearing the …
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday rejected the plea from the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the Trinamool Congress to hold the Martyrs’ Day rally on July 21 at the traditional venue in front of the CESC House near Esplanade in Central Kolkata.A petition filed by the Mamata Banerjee-led faction seeking permission to organise the rally at the traditional venue came up for hearing at the single-judge bench of Justice Sougata Bhattacharya this mor…
Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday directed the West Bengal government to clarify its stand on the venue for the Martyrs’ Day rally to be organised by the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of Trinamool Congress on July 21.After the Kolkata Police denied permission to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction to hold the rally at the traditional venue in front of the CESC House near Esplanade Crossing in Central Kolkata, the faction approached the Calcutta High…
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 3 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, Trinamool Congress’ general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, to file affidavits in a contempt of court case filed against them earlier.Earlier on June 19, the division bench of the Justice Arjit Banerjee and Justice Apurba Sinha Roy served a contempt of court notice to Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee in a case about the Trinamool Congress ann…
Kolkata, June 25 (IANS) At a time when the Trinamool Congress is plagued with internal conflicts, party supremo Mamata Banerjee has called for a gathering in Kolkata on July 21 to hold its annual Martyrs’ Day rally. On the call of North Kolkata Trinamool District President Kunal Ghosh, a pro-Mamata Trinamool meeting was held at Rammohan Library on Thursday. There, Mamata spoke to party workers present via Kunal’s phone for 12 minutes and called for a gathering on July 21.Mamata Banerjee said she…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Friday served contempt of court notices to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress’ general secretary and Lok Sabha member.The notice pertains to the Trinamool Congress annual Martyrs’ Day rally in central Kolkata on July 21, 2025, which contravened the Calcutta High Court’s 2018 order that prohibited political parties from obstructing any major or important road junctions in…