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: Incidents of violence were reported during the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha polls across nine parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal. Clashes erupted between workers of TMC, ISF, and BJP in various areas of the violence-prone Jadavpur and Diamond Harbour constituencies.The poll panel claimed that voting has been peaceful so far, but…
KOLKATA/DUMKA: PM Narendra Modi announced on Tuesday that the Centre has successfully recovered and returned Rs 17,000 crore of “scam money” to people across India. He also reiterated his commitment to specifically give back Rs 3,000 crore to Bengal citizens allegedly defrauded by Trinamool govt.“Will get the money out from scamsters and return it to…
NEW DELHI: Clash broke out during actor-turned-BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty‘s roadshow in Bengal’s Midnapore after stones were hurled by some unknown persons. Chakraborty was campaigning for Agnimitra Paul, the BJP candidate for the Midnapore Lok Sabha seat. Both Chakraborty and Paul emerged unharmed in the incident.Some people started hurling stones and bottles at the convoy…
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…
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…
MALDA: The Mercedes Benz (WMD– 4085) with a red beacon parked in Malda’s Kotwali Bhawan garage for the last 18 years serves as a reminder that the legacy of Barkat da or ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury remains to this day in Malda.The legend goes that Ghani Khan, five-time MLA, eight-time MP and a state and…
MALDA: The Mercedes Benz (WMD– 4085) with a red beacon parked in Malda’s Kotwali Bhawan garage for the last 18 years serves as a reminder that the legacy of Barkat da or ABA Ghani Khan Chowdhury remains to this day in Malda.The legend goes that Ghani Khan, five-time MLA, eight-time MP and a state and…
NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday moved to the Election Commission regarding the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) raid on two locations linked to an alleged associate of Sandeshkhali accused Shajahan Sheikh.The TMC asserted that the CBI’s actions were intended to smear the party’s reputation amidst the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. On Friday, CBI…
