Mamata Banerjee confirmed that she will be fighting from Suvendu’s stronghold Nandigram seat. The TMC chief also said that she will not contesting West Bengal Assembly polls from Bhabanipur seat.
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Mamata Banerjee calls meeting to find out reason for Lok Sabha setbacks
After hearing out the candidates and the district chiefs, Mamata Banerjee would announce a road map on overcoming the electoral setbacks and making a turnaround
Yashwant, Shourie, Apang to attend Mamata’s rally, Mayawati deputes Satish Mishra
Kolkata: Former Union Ministers Arun Shourie, Yashwant Sinha and Shatrughan Sinha — who served in late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet, but are bitterly opposed to the Modi regime — will be part of the January 19 Brigade Rally convened by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee here. Many[Read More…]
Bengal government to build Skywalk near Kalighat temple
Kolkata: The West Bengal government is considering construction of a skywalk beside the over two-century old Kalighat Kali temple, one of the city’s landmarks visited by thousands of devotees and tourists every day, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday. The structure would be similar to the newly built skywalk[Read More…]
People deserve to know what happened to Netaji: Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said people deserve to know exactly what happened to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose after the Taihoku air crash in 1945. “On this day in 2015, our government declassified the #NetajiFiles. What happened to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose after the air crash at[Read More…]
Trinamool Congress will fight 2019 general elections alone in Bengal: Mamata
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday her Trinamool Congress would fight the 2019 General elections alone in West Bengal and warned the Congress and the Left not to join hands with the BJP in the state while seeking her support at the Centre. Addressing the party’s[Read More…]
Police attacked by BJP supporters after Modi’s Bengal rally
Kolkata: BJP party workers were seen attacking police personnel while returning from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rally in Midnapore of West Bengal on Monday. Television grabs showed some BJP activists kicking and beating up police personnel with bamboo sticks after the latter allegedly failed to clear the roads for their[Read More…]
Kumaraswamy takes oath as non-BJP opposition puts up unity show
Bengaluru: H.D. Kumaraswamy was on Wednesday sworn in as the 25th Chief Minister of Karnataka at the head of a JD-S-Congress coalition government here in a ceremony that brought together leaders of anti-BJP parties on a single platform exactly a year ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The event[Read More…]
Bengal violence: Clash-hit Raniganj limps back to normalcy
Kolkata: Parts of Raniganj in West Bengal’s Paschim Burdwan district that remained tense for most of this week following clashes over Ram Navami rallies limped back to normalcy on Friday even as large number of police and para-military forces continued to be deployed in the area to prevent any breach of[Read More…]
Mamata wants PNB fraud probed, FRDI Bill scrapped
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded a thorough investigation into the fraudulent transactions worth $1.8 billion in Punjab National Bank and said she would not let the Central government off the hook until the people’s money is secured. Banerjee said she has written to the Finance[Read More…]
Trinamool wrests Noapara, leads in Uluberia in Bengal
Kolkata: In a formidable showing, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress wrested the Noapara Assembly seat from the Congress on Thursday and was all set to retain the Uluberia Lok Sabha seat with a huge margin even as the BJP emerged its main challenger. The counting was taken up on Thursday of[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…]
Mukul Roy wishes to join party: BJP
A senior BJP leader on Friday said that Mukul Roy, who had resigned from the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress earlier this month, has expressed his wish to join his party. “Mukul Roy has expressed his wish to our state (West Bengal) unit for joining the BJP. The state unit of[Read More…]
Survive in West Bengal without being raped, BJP MP Roopa Ganguly dares women
Reacting to the ongoing violence in West Bengal, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Roopa Ganguly on Firday dared supporters of TMC and the Congress leaders to send their wives and daughters to Bengal to live for 15 days and survive without getting raped. Ganguly said if they are able to survive in West[Read More…]
Mamata calls Centre’s move on slaughter ban as ‘Unconstitutuonal’
Labelling the Centre’s move as ‘unconstitutional’, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has challenged the new legislation brought by Central government regarding the ban on cattle slaughter. In a press conference in Kolkata, she said that West Bengal will neither accept the move as they are not bound by it. She[Read More…]
Arvind Kejriwal, Mamata Banerjee skipped Niti Aayog meeting
On Sunday, two Chief Ministers namely, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal skipped the third Governing Council meeting at Rashtrapati Bhavan. “West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal could not come to attend the Governing Council meeting today at Rashtrapati Bhavan,”[Read More…]
Unrest in Bengal after TMC MP’s arrest
Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay was arrested on Tuesday by the CBI as a suspect in the Rose Valley chit fund scam case. This is the second arrest of a TMC leader in a week. Another senior Trinamool MP Tapas Pal, accused in the same case, was sent to custody[Read More…]