Kolkata, July 13 (IANS) Tirthankar Ghosh, the defeated Trinamool Congress candidate from Panihati Assembly constituency in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal in the recently concluded election, was arrested on Monday on charges of involvement in various anti-social activities, such as alleged lottery scam, extortion and threatening people with firearms.Tirthankar, the son of Nirmal Ghosh, the former Chief Whip of Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Assembly during the previous Mamat…
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Kolkata, July 12 (IANS) The rebel faction of Trinamool Congress led by Ritabrata Banerjee on Sunday claimed that the committee constituted by it on June 22 is the only legitimate committee of the Trinamool Congress. Addressing a press conference, Ritabrata Banerjee, who is the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, made the claim citing directives issued by an Alipore court in connection with a case. He also asserted that no committee other than theirs can claim to represent the Trinamo…
Kolkata, July 11 (IANS) A day after making changes to the state committee, the rebel but majority faction of the Trinamool Congress led by the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Ritabrata Banerjee, on Saturday reconstituted the party’s district committees, establishing the rebel camp’s dominance at the district level.The names of the Ritabrata camp’s district committees and a panel of spokespersons were announced simultaneously on Saturday. The biggest surprise on the list was Trina…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) Panihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, otherwise never a high-profile seat in the state’s electoral history, has this time come into sharp focus with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fielding Ratna Debnath, the mother of the junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August 2024, as its candidate from the constituency.Members of the Debnath …
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday announced its third list of 19 candidates for the forthcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, with the most prominent name being Ratna Debnath, fielded from the Panihati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district.Debnath is the mother of the junior doctor of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata who was raped and murdered within the hospital premises in August 2024.She is …
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) A political slugfest surfaced in West Bengal over the omission of the names of victims of Special Intensive Revision (SIR) as well as the victims of the Anandapur warehouse fire mishap on the southern outskirts of Kolkata in the list of obituary mentions on the first day of the budget session of the Assembly on Tuesday.As per protocol, on the first day, the House was adjourned after the obituary mention.However, after the House was adjourned, the Chief Whip of Bharatiya Jan…