‘BJP-led Central Govt will fall soon’, assert Mamata, Akhilesh at Trinamool’s mega-rally

July 21, 2024

West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday said that the BJP-led Central Government is “unstable and will fall soon.” Yadav, a former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, was in Kolkata to attend the Trinamool Congress's Martyrs’ Day rally. Both...

Manohar Lal gives Peptalk to party workers of BJP in Bengal

July 17, 2024

Union Minister and former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal on Wednesday gave a peptalk to Bharatiya Janata Party karyakartas who have been on the backfoot in West Bengal after the party put up an unexpectedly poor show in the Lok Sabha elections and the Assembly by-elections held last week. He...

BJP in Bengal to Line Up Mass Movement Against TMC Govt

July 16, 2024

Ahead of the announcement of a series of mass movements in Bengal at BJP’s working committee meeting to be held this week, Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari announced a ‘Ganatantra Hatya Divas’ rally on July 21, the day Trinamool observes as Martyrs’ Day. The BJP plans to stage protests...

Union Minister Manohar Lal to chair Bengal BJP stock-taking meet

July 16, 2024

Union Minister and former Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal will chair the Bengal BJP’s extended state committee meeting here on Wednesday to outline the party’s political strategy in the State in the wake of its poor performance in the general election and July 10 by-polls. A source said Union Defence...

Trinamool welcomes SC ruling on CBI probes into Sandeshkhali incident

July 11, 2024

The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday welcomed the Supreme Court’s ruling that the West Bengal Government’s suit challenging the registration of cases by the CBI in the Sandeshkhali incident without its prior consent was valid. The Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal Government had approached the Supreme Court against the CBI over filing...

Woman files FIR against BJP’s Amit Malviya, CPI(M)’s Md Selim

July 9, 2024

The West Bengal Police have booked Amit Malviya, BJP IT cell chief and co-observer for Bengal, and CPIM state secretary Mohammed Selim for circulating the video of public flogging of a woman by a Trinamool Congress strongman in Chopra in North Dinajpur district. Bengal Police officials said that a First...

Setback to Mamata as SC junks plea on Sandeshkhali

July 9, 2024

Bengal BJP leaders exulted as the Supreme Court today dismissed a plea by the Mamata Banerjee Ggovernment against transferring Sandeshkhali cases to the CBI. Reacting to the news of the SC upholding the Calcutta High Court decision to transfer all Sandeshkhali cases to the CBI, Bengal BJP leader Agnimitra Paul...

Bengal: Speaker administers oath to 2 new TMC MLAs, Governor cries foul

July 6, 2024

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Friday cried foul even as the Speaker administered the oath to two newly elected Trinamool Congress legislators, instead of the Deputy Speaker who had been authorised by Bose for the job. Bose on Friday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, stating that the Assembly...

‘Muslim rashtra’ comment by TMC MLA intensifies row with BJP

July 2, 2024

Hours after the video of a Trinamool Congress leader Tajmul Haque alias JCB publicly flogging a woman in Chopra in Uttar Dinajpur district of West Bengal went viral, Trinamool Congress MLA Hamidul Rehman justified Tajmul beating the woman, who cries in pain. The video shows a large crowd watching Tajmul...

Bengal Guv goes on offensive against Mamata, West Bengal govt

July 1, 2024

West Bengal Governor C.V. Ananda Bose launched a two-pronged attack on Mamata Banerjee and the State Government over the weekend. Raj Bhavan sources said that the Governor had filed a defamation suit against the Chief Minister. Simultaneously, the Governor has also demanded a White Paper on the State finances from...