Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) The constitutional process of government formation in West Bengal is underway following the Assembly election results, even as outgoing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee refused to step down and questioned the people mandate.State Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal on Wednesday made it clear that the role of the election machinery is limited to conducting polls and notifying the results, stressing that the constitutional framework governs the rest of the process.”Look…
Latest Trinamool Congress News & Updates
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand on Wednesday said that JCBs cannot be used for victory processions and legal action will be taken against owners who rent them out.The city police commissioner held a press conference in Lalbazar (city police headquarters) in central Kolkata in the afternoon after receiving reports of post-poll violence across the city.He said that about 80 people have been arrested in connection with several incidents of post-poll violence, asserting t…
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) The BJP’s emergence as the new government of West Bengal, ending the 15-year Trinamool Congress rule, has cleared uncertainties over the future of a number of centrally-sponsored schemes that had not been implemented so far by the state administration and outgoing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Now, as promised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his pre-election rallies, these centrally sponsored schemes will be implemented fully, the most important of which is the health…
Oslo, May 6 (IANS) After the BJP’s historic win in West Bengal for the first time after Independence, Erik Solheim, Norwegian diplomat and former minister of Climate and Environment of Norway, said that it is time the West appreciates the strength of Indian democracy. Erik Solheim took to social media ‘X’ and said, “Big victory for Prime Minister Modi in India state elections. It’s time the West appreciates the strength of Indian democracy! BJP has won a massive victory in state elections in Wes…
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to refrain from promoting defections of elected representatives from other political parties and to avoid accepting them into its ranks. This approach is opposite to the strategy employed by the outgoing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress when it assumed power after ending the Left Front’s 34-year rule in 2011.In fact, a strict instruction has come from the state committee of the BJP tha…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Wednesday slammed Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee over her “stubbornness” after she ruled out the possibility of voluntarily tendering her resignation to the Governor as the outgoing Chief Minister. Pradhan said that the “resistance to accountability” and the refusal to accept the public’s mandate by the Trinamool Congress is an example of how democracy in Bengal “is being held at gunpoint”.In a post on X, Pradhan sa…
New Delhi, May 6 (IANS) After Mamata Banerjee announced that she would not step down from her position as Chief Minister, the BJP stated on Wednesday that the election results reflect the will of democracy and that she should accept the defeat and apologise. Speaking to IANS, BJP Rajya Sabha member Dinesh Sharma said, “The question of resignation does not arise, as her tenure has already ended and the public has not given her the mandate to continue. It appears as though she wants to remain in…
Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) With the Trinamool Congress losing elections, a series of resignations from advisory-post holders in the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal has begun.The flow of resignations from these advisery-post holders has begun despite the outgoing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s war cry on Tuesday that she would not send her resignation to Governor R.N. Ravi. She has said that she felt that the defeat of her party in the state and her personal defeat at the Bhabanipur …
Guwahati, May 6 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered sweeping victories in the Assam Assembly elections, with several of its candidates winning by record margins, underscoring a strong mandate across regions. The top five winning margins reflect not only electoral dominance but also the party’s deepening connect with diverse Assembly constituencies in the state, party sources on Tuesday. Leading the vote tally is Assam Minister Kaushik Rai from Lakhipur, who secured a massive margi…
Agartala, May 6 (IANS) Former Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb has said here that after more than five decades, the same party — the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) — is set to govern both the Centre and West Bengal, a development that is expected to accelerate the state’s progress. Deb, who played a key role as co-observer during the Bengal Assembly elections and campaigned extensively in the state for several months, made the remarks on Tuesday upon returning to Tripura a day after the e…