Kolkata, July 25 (IANS) Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday supported the statement of Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari in the West Bengal Assembly on Saturday that no one will be spared who created unrest during the procession organised by the Left parties in Kolkata. Speaking to media persons, Majumdar said, “Those who were leading the procession called by the Left from the beginning on Friday, could not lead it till the end. The unrest started before it reached near Do…
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Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday sent a notice for interrogation to rebel Trinamool Congress legislator Madan Mitra in connection with the ongoing investigation into the multi‑crore municipalities’ job irregularities case in West Bengal during the previous Mamata Banerjee‑led Trinamool regime. Earlier this month, the ED served notices to Mitra’s wife and two sons to appear for interrogation in the same case. They are scheduled to appear at the ED’s Sa…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) The “rebel but majority” faction in Trinamool Congress led by expelled legislator Ritabrata Banerjee on Tuesday announced Rs 10,000 monthly compensation for the families of the 13 Youth Congress workers killed in police firing on July 21, 1993, during the Left Front regime in West Bengal under the then Chief Minister Jyoti Basu. Announcing a Martyrs’ Day rally in Central Kolkata, Ritabrata said the compensation would be given if the faction is granted rights over th…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday urged former West Bengal Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee not to allow the return of any leader who deserted the party or joined a rebel faction during the difficult period following the Trinamool Congress’s landslide defeat in the recently concluded West Bengal Assembly elections.Addressing the party’s annual July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally near Birla Planetarium in central Kolk…
Kolkata, July 21 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday announced that she will join the Cockroach Janta Party’s movement over the NEET exam paper leak in the national capital.She also said that, if necessary, she will go to the level of the Supreme Court to protect her right over the name and electoral symbol of Trinamool Congress, on which the “rebel but majority” faction in the party led by the expelled party legislator, Ritabrata Banerjee, has also claimed…
Kolkata, July 20 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, refused an interim stay on the decision of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to freeze three bank accounts of the Trinamool Congress with combined deposits of Rs 440 crore.Following the refusal of the single-judge bench of Justice Krishna Rao to entertain the plea of the former West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata-Banerjee-led faction for an interim stay on the ED-imposed freeze on these bank accounts, “debit rest…
Kolkata, July 18 (IANS) Alleged fictitious transactions to the tune of Rs 164 crore from one of the three frozen bank accounts of Trinamool Congress are currently under the scanner of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).The central agency had already given a letter to the authorities of the private sector commercial bank concerned where the account is held seeking details of such transactions valued at Rs 164 crore, sources aware of the development said.Currently debit restrictions are imposed on a…
Kolkata, July 17 (IANS) The hearing on the petition filed by the “original but minority” faction in Trinamool Congress challenging the decision of the West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose regarding the appointment of Ritabrata Banerjee, the leader of the “rebel but majority” faction in the party, as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the House concluded on Friday at a division bench of the Calcutta High Court. However, the division bench of Justice Sampa Sarkar and Justice Ajay Kumar G…
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha MP Abhishek Banerjee has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking the scrapping of the FIR registered against him by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the legislators’ signatures mismatch case. Earlier, senior Trinamool legislator Sovandeb Chattopadhyay had challenged a CID notice in the matter before the High Court.Based on Banerjee’s petition, the High Court on Thursday issued a notice to the West Ben…
Kolkata, July 16 (IANS) Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asked potential fence-sitters in her Trinamool Congress faction to quit before July 21 if they plan to join the rebel camp led by expelled leader Ritabrata Banerjee. Her Facebook Live message came soon after former Trinamool Congress legislator from Rajarhat-Newtown constituency in North 24 Parganas, Tapas Chatterjee, gave hints earlier in the day about his decision to quit the Mamata Banerjee-led faction and j…