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...
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...
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted a charge sheet against 11 accused individuals in connection with the murder of Chandranath Rath, a close aide of West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. The development comes after the investigating agency arrested two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, Sagar Sonkar and his brother Sahib Sonkar, for...
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee has launched a sharp political attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following the defection of a senior party leader to the BJP. Speaking at a public gathering, Banerjee alleged that several politicians facing legal or political pressure are joining the BJP in search...
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee has issued a strong and emotionally charged message amid growing political tensions within her party and mounting attacks from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In a video statement released during the ongoing political crisis, Banerjee declared that no amount of pressure or intimidation would...