KOLKATA: The INDIA bloc’s decision not to stake any claim to form the govt today does not mean that it is not going to stake claim tomorrow, CM Mamata Banerjee has said, adding that TDP’s Chandrababu Naidu and JD(U)’s Nitish Kumar “are also our friends”.Banerjee, who met Trinamool’s 29 new MPs at her Kalighat residence…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been elected as All India Trinamool Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson, according to the party.The party has also elected Sudip Bandyopadhyay to serve as the leader of the party in the Lok Sabha, with Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar assuming the role of Deputy leader. Kalyan Banerjee has…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday took a dig at PM Modi as the BJP fell short of majority in Lok Sabha elections. “PM Modi ‘broke’ many parties, people broke his morale,” Mamata said after her party made impressive gains in West Bengal and stopped the BJP’s juggernaut in the state….
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday named Rahul Gandhi as his choice for the prime minister’s post if the INDIA bloc is voted to office on June 4.Asked about West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s proposal at a Nov meeting of the INDIA group that Kharge should be projected as the opposition’s PM candidate, he said…
KOLKATA: Terming Calcutta HC‘s order invalidating all OBC categorisations in Bengal since 2010 “BJP‘s verdict”, CM Mamata Banerjee declared on Wednesday, “We will not accept it. OBC reservation is continuing, and it will continue.”Mamata, who was speaking at a campaign rally in Khardah on the outskirts of Kolkata, indicated that her govt would appeal in…
NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: Election Commission on Tuesday censured BJP neta and former Calcutta HC judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay for his “low-level personal attack” on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and debarred him from campaigning for 24 hours from 5 pm on Tuesday.In a strongly-worded order, EC said the BJP candidate’s statement was a “direct affront on the…
KOLKATA/BANKURA/BEHRAMPORE: Bharat Sevashram Sangha (BSS) on Monday said it didn’t endorse the “avoidable” statements made by its Beldanga unit chief Swami Pradiptananda against Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee even as the monk sent a legal notice to the CM and later took to the streets in Behrampore to protest against her.A few hours after Banerjee singled…
KOLKATA/PURULIA/KHARAGPUR: A fortnight after the first of the purported Sandeshkhali videos emerged to give Trinamool ammo to accuse BJP of engineering the unrest there, PM Modi broke his silence on the row Sunday by accusing CM Mamata Banerjee‘s party of “questioning the character of the women of Sandeshkhali to save their (Sheikh) Shahjahan“. Modi also…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday criticised Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal over the Sandeshkhali issue during a rally in Purulia. PM Modi alleged that TMC members were questioning the character of the women of Sandeshkhali to protect a local strongman, Shahjahan Sheikh.He said that the TMC, which once championed the slogan…
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress dashed off a complaint to Election Commission against BJP‘s Tamluk candidate and ex-high court judge Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Thursday over what it said were “unbelievably disparaging and misogynistic” remarks in public against Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, including asking what her “price” was and whether she was “a woman at all”.“Trinamool says (BJP’s…
