The govt on Friday told the Lok Sabha that it had no plans to bring any law regarding electoral bonds for the funding of political parties, while replying to questions on electoral bonds. The govt added it had no plans for an alternative funding proposal to the electoral bonds either, for the political parties.Trinamool Congress…
West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose and CM Mamata Banerjee KOLKATA: West Bengal governor CV Ananda Bose, in an interview on Sunday, expressed his respect for chief minister Mamata Banerjee as an individual and maintained professional relations with her, but clarified that the “politician Mamata Banerjee” is “not my cup of tea.” Bose, who has…
Trinamool Congress has asked West Bengal’s correctional homes minister Akhil Giri for his resignation after the video of him threatening a female forest officer has been circulated online. The party also asked him to apologise unconditionally.“Following party instructions, state president Subrata Bakshi called Akhil Giri on Sunday afternoon, instructing him to apologise to the woman…
NEW DELHI: Is Adir Ranjan Chouwdhury on his way out of the Congress? Well, we do not know for now, but the West Bengal Congess leader has surely dropped clear hints of rebellion amid imminent change of leadership in the state unit. The West Bengal Congress leader, who represented Behrampore Lok Sabha constituency for five…
NEW DELHI: The opposition parties, including Congress, Samajwadi Party, and Trinamool Congress, criticized the BJP-led central government on Tuesday for the recent spate of railway accidents, accusing the railway ministry of lacking accountability.In the early hours of Tuesday, at least 18 coaches of the Howrah-Mumbai Mail derailed near Barabamboo in Jharkhand’s Seraikela-Kharsawan district, resulting in…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is learnt to have offered the seating plan in the House to the INDIA bloc, excluding Trinamool Congress. Although the Mamata Banerjee outfit is part of the opposition alliance and is expected to sit within the same cluster, the separate seats suggest that TMC is negotiating independently for…
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said, she will ask Prime Minister Narendra Modi “to scrap the Niti Ayog and restore the Planning Commission,” at the Niti Ayog governing council meeting on Saturday, since the original version of the public policy think tank was an “effective platform…
NEW DELHI: Suvendu Adhikari, leader of the opposition in the West Bengal assembly, alleged on Wednesday that TMC MLA Tapan Chatterjee abused him verbally and tried to assault him in the state legislative.The BJP leader and Nandigram MLA expressed “insecurity” on being on the assembly premises and wrote a letter to Bengal speaker Biman Bandyopadhyay,…
NEW DELHI: The West Bengal unit of the BJP has announced that they will not follow the party’s ideal of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ any more as they did not need any “minority morcha” in the state. This despite the fact that the idea of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ has been the cornerstone of Prime…
BATHINDA: Days after the Parliamentary elections came to an end and the protests at Punjab-Haryana borders complete almost four months, a delegation of Trinamool Congress comprising five MPs visited the protesting farmers at Khanauri-Data Singh Wala Punjab-Haryana border on Monday. TMC showed solidarity with the protesting farmers, who are demanding legal guarantee of minimum support…
