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…
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Kolkata, July 15 (IANS) Ending days of speculation, senior Trinamool Congress leader and Kamarhati MLA Madan Mitra on Wednesday quit all posts in the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the party and joined the rival faction headed by Leader of the Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee.Seated alongside Ritabrata Banerjee in the West Bengal Assembly, Madan Mitra announced his resignation from all posts of the original Trinamool Congress while launching a sharp attack on Trinamool Congress general secretary Ab…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) The ongoing tension between two rival camps in Trinamool Congress’s legislative party in the West Bengal Assembly escalated further on Friday with the “rebel but majority” faction led by expelled party legislator Ritabrata Banerjee taking control of Trinamool Congress’s main party office at Metropolitan on Eastern Metropolitan Bypass in the city this evening. A team of legislators from the party’s “rebel but majority” faction led by Ritabrata, currently the official Leader…
Kolkata, July 3 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Friday extended the interim protection from coercive police action, including arrest, for Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee in the ongoing CID probe into the West Bengal legislators’ signature mismatch case. However, while granting the extension till July 17 in the case of mismatches in the signatures of some Trinamool Congress legislators on a crucial signature on some crucial app…
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 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 11 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Saumitra Khan said on Thursday that the rebel Trinamool Congress leaders are free to form a separate platform and will not be allowed to join the BJP.His reaction comes amid a growing rift within the Trinamool Congress, leading to the resignation of several party leaders and MPs.Previously, Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar and West Bengal BJP President Samik Bhattacharya had made similar statements that no leader from the Mamata Ban…
New Delhi, June 11 (IANS) Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee’s ultimatum to party Chairperson Mamata Banerjee to choose between her nephew and party’s General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and old associates like him both underscores and amplifies the moot reason for the ongoing unrest within the 28-year-old party. In an exclusive conversation with IANS, Kalyan Banerjee lashed out at Abhishek Banerjee’s “arrogance” and “misbehaviour”, saying he felt humiliated after being sidelined in…
Kolkata, June 8 (IANS) Political circles in West Bengal were abuzz on Monday after former state minister and ex-Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim visited the Assembly chamber of Ritabrata Banerjee, leader of the breakaway bloc in the Trinamool Congress legislative party and the Leader of the Opposition, and held a meeting with him.Hakim, a four-time Trinamool Congress legislator from 2011 to date, was seen going to the room allotted to Banerjee within the assembly premises along with another party legi…
Kolkata, June 4 (IANS) The first meeting of the new block in the Trinamool Congress Legislative Party in the West Bengal Assembly, which is now the recognised group and the official principal opposition party in the state as per records of the House, will be held on Thursday.The meeting, to be held on the Assembly premises, will be chaired by Ritabrata Banerjee, the ‘expelled’ Trinamool Congress legislator from Uluberia (Purba) constituency in Kolkata-adjacent Howrah district.Ritabrata is now th…