Setback to I.N.D.I.A as Mamata goes solo in all 42 seats in Bengal

March 11, 2024

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee today finally ended the suspense over sharing seats with its I.N.D.I.A. partner, the Congress, by announcing party candidates in all 42 seats in West Bengal. Announcing the names at a massive Jonogorjon (People’s Roar) Sabha, Mamata Banerjee slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party for its step-motherly...

Trinamool’s Bete Noire Justic Gangopandyay Joins BJP

March 8, 2024

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who, as a Calcutta High Court judge repeatedly hauled up Trinamool Congress Government for its alleged corruption, today formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party two days after resigning from the Bench. BJP MLA Agnimitra Paul, councillor Sajal Ghosh and other leaders reached Gangopadhyay’s residence at Kolkata’s Salt...

BJP sending wrong ‘sandesh’ on Sandeshkhali, says Mamata

March 8, 2024

Despite the storm of protests over the alleged land grab and sexual abuse of the women of Sandeshkhali by Trinamool Congress leaders, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of spreading canards about Sandeshkhali. Speaking at a rally on the eve of International Women’s...

Sandeshkhali storm will blow away TMC: PM Modi

March 7, 2024

Modi accuses the TMC government of prioritising appeasement politics over ensuring safety of women Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched an all-out attack on the Trinamool Congress government in Bengal and warned that the “storm of Sandeshkhali would reach every corner of Bengal and would sweep away the Trinamool...

CBI gets custody of Shahjahan after waiting for 2 days

March 7, 2024

Ending a two-day stand-off between the Bengal Government and the Central Bureau of Investigation, the Central agency finally managed to take suspended Trinamool leader Sheikh Shahjahan – the key accused in the Sandeshkhali extortion, land grab, and sexual assault cases – into its custody on Wednesday evening. For the second...

Election Commission tells Bengal Police to act impartially

March 6, 2024

After two days of on-ground assessments in West Bengal by the full bench of Election Commission, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Tuesday said that the state police had been told to act impartially and ensure that there was no violence in the run up to Lok Sabha elections. “There...

Bengal CID flouts HC order, stops CBI

March 6, 2024

In an evening stand-off, the West Bengal CID today refused to hand over Sheikh Shahjahan, the main accused in the extortion, land grab and sexual assault of women in Sandeshkhali, to the CBI, despite the Calcutta High Court ordering the same. “The Bengal Police have been instructed to hand over...

‘TMC a few arrests away from collapse’

March 6, 2024

Judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay resigned and confirmed he is joining BJP The Calcutta High Court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay today resigned from the Bench and confirmed that he would be joining the Bharatiya Janata Party on March 7. Addressing a press conference, he took on the Trinamool Congress and said: “Trinamool is...

Sandeshkhali: TMC leader Shahjahan held

March 1, 2024

Fifty-six days after going underground following the mob attack on the Enforcement Directorate raiding party and its escort team of CRPF jawans, Shahjahan Shiekh, the Trinamool Congress leader of Sandeshkhali, was apprehended today barely 23 km from his home. In Sandeshkhali, women, who have been protesting the land-grab and sexual...

Shahjahan’s arrest triggers political slugfest

March 1, 2024

The arrest of Trinamool Congress strongman Shahjahan Sheikh on Thursday morning triggered a slugfest between the Trinamool Congress and the Opposition parties – the Bharatiya Janata Party and the CPIM. Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress, in an urgent press conference at the party headquarters, announced that the Sandeshkhali gram pradhan had...