West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Saturday organised a candle march led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here to protest against the terror attack on a paramilitary convoy in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 49 troopers while the opposition Left Front and the BJP also hit the streets. During the[Read More…]
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Congress, Trinamool stage walk out over Citizenship Bill in LS
New Delhi, The Congress and the Trinamool Congress staged a walk out from the Lok Sabha over a bill that seeks to remove hurdles in eligible migrants from six minority groups from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan getting Indian citizenship as they demanded that it should again be sent to a[Read More…]
Trinamool leader beaten to death in Bengal
Kolkata, A district level leader of the Trinamool Congress was beaten to death in West Bengal’s Hooghly district and one person has been arrested in this connection, police said on Monday. Sheikh Mukhtar of Madhurpur was beaten to death on Sunday. Based on his family’s complaint, Sheikh Akhtar Ali Khan,[Read More…]
Assam killings: TMC links deaths to NRC, protests in Bengal
Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday held protests across the state against the killing of five Bengalis in Assam’s Tinsukia as it put the blame on the Assam government and their NRC move. The Trinamool claimed that the discriminatory attitude of Assam towards the Bengali-speaking population in the[Read More…]
West Bengal: BJP leader hacked to death, party blames Trinamool
Kolkata: A BJP leader was hacked to death in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, with police putting the blame on unidentified criminals, but the party accused the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress of being responsible for the killing. The Trinamool has, however, denied the charge. Shaktipada Sardar, the secretary of[Read More…]
‘Congress-Left should join hands against Trinamool, BJP’
Kolkata: The Congress and Left parties need to come together in a political front or on a common platform in West Bengal to effectively fight the murder of democracy by the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the communal agenda of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), says a senior Congress party[Read More…]
Trinamool looks to sweep Bengal Panchayat polls, BJP in second spot
Kolkata: The ruling Trinamool Congress on Thursday looked set for a resounding victory crushing all opposition parties in rural West Bengal, after nearly 11 hours of the vote count in the three-tier state Panchayat election, with the BJP emerging a distant second in almost all the districts. The Left Front,[Read More…]
Don’t forget Indira, Rajiv are martyrs: Trinamool
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi on Thursday said former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi are martyrs, and while criticising them, this should be kept in mind. Participating in a debate on the Budget in Lok Sabha, Trivedi said even though politicians may not agree with them on[Read More…]
Bengal by-poll: Trinamool wins by 64,172 votes
Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Sunday won the Sabang Assembly constituency by-poll, by a massive margin of 64,192 votes. Trinamool candidate Gita Rani Bhunia got 1,06,179 votes while her nearest rival Rita Mondal of the the Left Front backed Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) secured 41,987 votes. Amid a[Read More…]
Trinamool lacks internal democracy, shrunk Bengal’s political space: Mukul Roy
Former Trinamool Congress heavyweight Mukul Roy, who has switched over to the BJP, on Monday claimed he felt suffocated due to the lack of democracy in his former party and accused it of shrinking the political space in the state like never before. “This (Trinamool) is a one-man party. None[Read More…]
People uniting to defeat Trinamool, bring ‘another change’ in Bengal: Mukul Roy
A day after joining the BJP, former Trinamool Congress heavyweight Mukul Roy on Saturday said people of Bengal are getting united to bring about another political change in the 2019 general and 2021 assembly elections. “When the people get united, the change takes place. The people of Bengal are getting[Read More…]
Watch: TMC MLA Swapan Kumar Beltharia thrashes vendor during eviction drive
Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislator, Swapan Kumar Betharia was seen beating a vendor during an eviction drive in a short clip that went viral online. The incident happened on Wednesday morning at Purulia’s Kashipur area in West Bengal. However, Swapan Kumar has denied any unlawful activity. When asked, Kumar said that[Read More…]
Puri priests against ‘Beef Supporter’ Mamata Banerjee’s Jagannath temple visit
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, who arrived in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday evening on a three-day tour to the state witnessed agitation from the priests of Jagannath temple. Annoyed with West Bengal CM’s ‘support’ for those who eat beef, more than 12,000 priests at Jagannath Temple are preparing to stop her[Read More…]