More than a week after NHRC final report was submitted in Calcutta High Court, which slammed the ruling Trinamool Congress party for post-poll violence, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday denied all allegations about post-poll violence in the state. She reiterated that no post-poll violence happened in Bengal and whatever cases happened in … Read more
The government will seek action against some Opposition MPs who allegedly misbehaved with the treasury bench members in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday after a TMC MP snatched papers from Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and tore those as he was about to make a statement on the alleged snooping row. Government sources said some … Read more
Health minister Mansukh Mandavia emphasised in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that political parties and state governments should not bring politics into the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, which may have a third wave, even as he assured that the supply of vaccines, oxygen, medicines and other logistics is being ramped up. The Upper House … Read more
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari challenged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying she will not be able to win the Nandigram seat despite moving court and even if recounting is done. He also said the complacency about victory led to failure of BJP in the recently concluded state assembly polls. … Read more
Making a start with the announcement of the bypoll to a Rajya Sabha seat from West Bengal, the Election Commission is working on scheduling by-elections to at least 23 state and Lok Sabha seats and eight Rajya Sabha seats on a case-by-case basis. Bypolls, however, to the six vacant assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh and … Read more
Leader of opposition in Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Friday submitted a letter to speaker Biman Banerjee, seeking disqualification of Mukul Roy from the house under the anti-defection law. Roy, who won this year’s assembly election from the Krishnanagar Uttar seat on a BJP ticket, joined the ruling Trinamool Congress last week. Previously in the … Read more
In a major jolt to the BJP, the party’s national vice-president Mukul Roy did a ‘ghar wapsi’ by joining the Trinamool Congress, along with his son Subhranshu Roy, on Friday, four years after deserting the Trinamool Congress. Mukul Roy was the first TMC leader to join the BJP in September 2017 and is also the … Read more
With the aim of taking the BJP “head on”, the newly appointed TMC National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Monday that Trinamool Congress has chalked out its plan for “national politics” and claimed that “the party will lay down their vision in next one month”. “We will take on BJP head on, when we … Read more
A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged all the opposition parties to rise up against the BJP for insulting bureaucrats, the post #BengaliPrimeMinister with a photo of the TMC leader has been trending in Twitter, triggering comments that Mamata might be the face of the opposition against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during … Read more
It was a meeting that hardly lasted for a minute but the meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee created a huge political controversy. When senior leaders of the BJP claimed that it was the chief minister’s ego that resisted her from staying away from the review meeting with … Read more