Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will be going to New Delhi on July 27 to join the movement led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) against the NEET exam paper leak. At the same time, she announced the appointment of four‑time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member from Dum Dum constituency in North 24 Parganas district, Saugata Roy, as the deputy leader of the party in the Lok Sabha.Roy replaces four‑time Lok Sabha member from Birbhum constituency, Satab…
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Kolkata, July 24 (IANS) Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, a four-time Lok Sabha MP from Barasat in North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, and one of the 20 former Trinamool Congress parliamentarians who recently joined the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), on Friday issued a guarded statement on the ongoing nationwide protests over the NEET examination paper leak.In a social media statement, Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar expressed support for the legitimate concerns of NEET aspirant…
New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Trinamool Congress leader Kalyan Banerjee has frequently landed himself in trouble, being a quick-tempered person with a sharp tongue, and now being suspended from Lok Sabha for the remainder of the Monsoon Session on allegations of using abusive language against fellow Members of Parliament, especially women. A four-time MP from West Bengal’s Serampore constituency and a senior advocate of the Supreme Court and Calcutta High Court, Banerjee has long been one of the Tri…
New Delhi, July 22 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP, Kalyan Banerjee, was suspended from the Lok Sabha for the remainder of the Monsoon Session on Wednesday after the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) lodged a complaint with Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, alleging that he had used abusive language against the party’s MPs during proceedings in the House.The action came after Banerjee was involved in a heated verbal exchange with some of his former party colleagues, who are now members of the NC…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) on Sunday criticised Opposition parties for walking out of the all-party meeting convened by the Centre, calling the protest unprecedented and inappropriate. The Opposition MPs, however, returned shortly afterwards and participated in the meeting.Speaking to IANS, NCPI MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay said: “We have 20 MPs with us. It’s the first time the NDA will have three Muslim MPs. Out of 20, we have more than one-third female M…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Sunday defended the Centre’s decision to invite members of the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) to the all-party meeting ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, saying that while the Opposition had every right to stage a walkout, it would not have been appropriate to exclude 20 elected Members of Parliament from the discussions. This came as the INDIA bloc staged a walkout from the all-party meeting conv…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) After staging a walkout to protest the presence of the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) members at the all-party meeting convened by the government on Sunday, the Opposition leaders called the invitation of the Trinamool Congress’ rebel faction “unconstitutional” and “murder of democracy”.The Opposition described the NCPI as an “unrecognised political party”.Trinamool Congress MP Saugata Roy, speaking to the reporters on the walkout, said: “The concern is that…
New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) The INDIA bloc staged a walkout from the all-party meeting convened by the Centre on Saturday ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament, which is scheduled to commence on July 20, protesting the presence of members of the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI), a rebel faction of the Trinamool Congress. The meeting, held in the Main Committee Room of the Parliament House Annexe, was attended by Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju, Defence Minister Raj…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) All the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) offices in West Bengal will be demolished after the Trinamool Congress comes to power in West Bengal in 2031, said Trinamool Congress general secretary and the party’s Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday, reacting to the demolition of his party office at Amtala in South 24 Parganas district earlier in the day. “We have already sent an email to the OSD of the Calcutta High Court Chief Justice attaching all the videos of the d…
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) The Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) has decided to organise a separate Martyrs’ Day programme in Kolkata on July 21 to commemorate the 13 people who were killed during a demonstration in the city in 1993.NCPI leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar said on Thursday that paying tribute to the martyrs was a collective responsibility.”Martyrs belong to everyone. Those who died in the freedom struggle are martyrs. And those who gave their lives for the sake of maintaining law…