The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has asked the Lok Sabha Secretariat not to nominate 20 of its rebel MPs to parliamentary committees, citing ongoing disqualification proceedings against the lawmakers. TMC’s Lok Sabha leader Abhishek Banerjee has made the request as the process of reconstituting several parliamentary committees gets underway. The committees are periodically reshuffled, with political...
A reported attempt by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) to explore an electoral understanding with the Congress ahead of the Nandigram Assembly bypoll has triggered fresh political discussion in West Bengal. While a senior Congress leader has claimed that the TMC approached the party with a proposal involving Nandigram, the Trinamool Congress has denied...
A group of masked and helmeted men allegedly broke into and ransacked Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee’s office on Camac Street in central Kolkata in the early hours of Thursday, September 3, triggering a fresh political confrontation in West Bengal. According to allegations made by Abhishek Banerjee, the attackers entered the party office at around...
The political crisis within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has intensified after the Lok Sabha Secretariat issued notices to 20 rebel party MPs in connection with disqualification petitions filed against them by TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee. The MPs have been asked to submit their responses within seven days. The petitions seek their disqualification under the anti-defection...
The political crisis within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has deepened, with rebel lawmakers in West Bengal and Parliament still waiting for formal recognition of their new political alignments. Two separate groups of TMC dissidents have moved away from the leadership associated with Mamata Banerjee, creating a complex legal and political situation that now involves the...
The West Bengal Special Task Force (STF) has arrested Fazle Rabbi, the brother of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) Islampur block president Zakir Hossain, in connection with an ongoing investigation into an alleged espionage network with links to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Rabbi was taken into custody from Uttar Dinajpur late Thursday night after investigators reportedly...
Trinamool Congress MP and party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee has approached the Calcutta High Court challenging the freezing of his personal bank account, alleging that the action was taken without following the required legal procedure. The petition was filed on Monday, August 17, after Banerjee’s legal team sought an urgent hearing before Justice Krishna...
Former West Bengal Assembly deputy speaker and veteran Trinamool Congress leader Ashis Banerjee was found dead at a party office in Rampurhat in Birbhum district on Sunday morning, sending shockwaves through the state’s political circles. Police said Banerjee’s body was found at a Trinamool Congress office located near his residence in the Hattala Para area...
Trinamool Congress (TMC) Member of Parliament Kalyan Banerjee was suspended from the Lok Sabha after complaints were raised against him over the alleged use of abusive language during parliamentary proceedings. The action has intensified political tensions between the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the Opposition, adding another chapter to the ongoing confrontations inside Parliament....
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chairperson Mamata Banerjee has appealed to party leaders, workers, and supporters to participate in large numbers in the party’s annual July 21 Martyrs’ Day rally, one of the most significant political events on the TMC calendar. In her message to party members, Banerjee described the annual gathering...