KOLKATA/HALDIA: A day after Mamata Banerjee said that Trinamool Congress would “extend all possible help from outside” in the event of the INDIA bloc forming the next govt at the Centre, the Bengal CM clarified that her party would very much be a part of that regime.On Wednesday, she had said at a rally in…
NEW DELHI: A day after Trinamool Congress chief and Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said she would provide “outside support” to the INDIA bloc if it wins Lok Sabha elections, Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said he does not trust her and that she can even go with BJP if it wins. Chowdhary also accused Mamata…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee announced on Wednesday that her party will support the opposition INDIA bloc from outside to form the government at the Centre. She also pledged to repeal the CAA, NRC, and UCC once the BJP government is voted out of power. Banerjee expressed doubt about…
SANDESHKHALI: A BJP Mahila Morcha functionary in Sandeshkhali was on Tuesday sent to judicial custody for eight days by a Basirhat court after surrendering in order to get bail. A complaint had been lodged against Piyali Das alias Mampi by a “rape survivor” stating that the BJP member had coerced women into lodging false rape…
BEHRAMPORE: When Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury started winning Behrampore Lok Sabha in 1999, Yusuf Pathan was a 17-year-old. Pathan, the former India cricketer who was part of two World Cup winning squads made his cricket debut two years later. And yet, to borrow a metaphor from cricket, the election in Behrampore in Murshidabad is poised to…
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NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed her disapproval of the Election Commission‘s delayed release of the final voter turnout numbers for the first two phases of the Lok Sabha elections. She also voiced her worries about the abrupt rise in polling percentages during those phases. The commission only disclosed the…
NEW DELHI: Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Abhishek Banerjee has thrown down the gauntlet to Union home minister Amit Shah, daring him to contest against him from the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency. In a bold move, Banerjee declared that if the BJP leader won, he would retire from active politics.Speaking at an election rally…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee suffered an injury on Saturday after boarding a helicopter in Durgapur. The Trinamool Congress supremo slipped and fell inside the chopper as she was about to take her seat.The CM was helped by her security personnel and she continued with her onward travel to Asansol, said media…
KOLKATA: A day after Mamata Banerjee called Calcutta HC a “mahatirtha (pilgrimage site)” for BJP while stressing that HC could have “given some other advice” in the cash-for-jobs case instead of scrapping the appointment of 25,757 people by SSC, the court on Thursday admitted a petition against West Bengal chief minister for “making accusations against…
