Kolkata, June 23 (IANS) The Mamata Banerjee-aligned faction in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has written to the Election Commission of India (ECI), furnishing details of what it claims is the party’s original national working committee.The faction, describing itself as the “original but minority” group loyal to former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, asserted that its list represents the “real” national working committee, counteri…
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Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress faction led by Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly Ritabrata Banerjee has removed party supremo Mamata Banerjee and Trinamool general secretary Abhishek Banerjee from the rebel faction of the party. At the same time, the rebel camp of Trinamool MLAs formed a new committee at a special session held at a five-star hotel in Kolkata on Monday. The new chairman of that committee is Howrah Madhya Assembly MLA Arup Roy.On Monday, after the budge…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) Trinamool Congress on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court after the police decided to freeze three of its bank accounts. The party sought the court’s intervention to determine under whose permission and for what reason the accounts were frozen. Trinamool lawyers sought permission to file a case before the bench of Justice Saugata Bhattacharyya. The court accepted the application, and the formal hearing may begin later this week. The three Trinamool accounts are said to…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) The West Bengal Budget proposals for the financial year 2026-27, presented by the state Finance Minister, Swapan Dasgupta, earlier in the day, underline the commitment of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in the state to adopt a three-pronged strategy to address the pressing issue of unemployment in West Bengal, Chief Minister Adhikari said after the Budget was tabled in the West Bengal Assembly.“I have been speaking of this three-pronged strategy to addre…
Kolkata, June 22 (IANS) Former West Bengal minister and ex-Trinamool Congress treasurer Aroop Biswas has blamed the party leadership for keeping him in the dark over the use of party funds, in his response to a show-cause notice issued to him in connection with the freezing of party bank accounts, party leaders said on Monday.The controversy began after Biswas, in his capacity as treasurer, wrote to a private bank requesting the freezing of three Trinamool Congress accounts amid a dispute over c…
Kolkata, June 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MLA and state minority cell chief Mosaraf Hussen on Sunday announced his resignation from the party post.Hussen, the MLA from Itahar constituency in North Dinajpur district, announced this decision at a press conference at his residence. Although he cited his mother’s illness as the reason, he also admitted that he has contacts with the rebel camp of Trinamool MLAs in the Assembly. He also said that he has a good relationship with Chief Minister Suvendu…
New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) For some time, Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee’s means of travel — especially between Kolkata and Delhi — has been a subject of political discussions which has increased in pitch since his Friday visit to call upon the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla. The party’s de-facto number two was in Delhi on Friday to meet Lok Sabha Speaker Birla and contest the legitimacy of a rebel faction within the Trinamool Congress.He urged the Speaker not to recognise the breakawa…
Kolkata, June 20 (IANS) The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Saturday questioned senior Trinamool Congress legislator Sovandeb Chattopadhyay for nearly an hour in connection with its ongoing investigation into alleged discrepancies in signatures on a crucial resolution related to key positions in the West Bengal Assembly.CID officers visited Chattopadhyay’s residence in the afternoon as part of the probe into allegations that the signatures of several Trinamoo…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) The West Bengal Police has directed a “debit freeze” on three bank accounts held by the Trinamool Congress at a branch of a private sector bank in central Kolkata.The debit freeze means that all outgoing transactions from these accounts have been temporarily blocked. While incoming deposits will continue to be permitted, cash withdrawals, fund transfers, debit card transactions and automatic bill payments will not be allowed.Earlier this week, former Trinamool Congres…
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) Veteran Trinamool Congress legislator Sovandeb Chattopadhyay on Friday moved a division bench of the Calcutta High Court, challenging the order of the single-judge bench of Justice Krishna Rao of the same court, upholding the decision of the West Bengal Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose accepting expelled Trinamool legislator Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the new majority bloc of the party in the House as well as the official Leader of Opposition (LoP). Although, in t…