Tag: Trinamool Congress

Bhubaneswar: Arrested Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Tapas Paul today created ripples in the country’s political circle by alleging Union Minister Babul Supriyo is involved in the Rose Valley chit fund scam and has tricked him into the case. Replying to queries fielded by newsmen, Paul, while being taken on a three-day CBI remand starting today, […]

Bhubaneswar: Special CJM court (CBI) here today rejected the bail plea of Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Tapas Pal and sent him to 3-day CBI custody in connection with the multi-crore Rose Valley chit fund scam. The Central investigating agency, which arrested Pal yesterday for his alleged involvement in the tainted ponzi firm, brought to the […]

Bhubaneswar: Intensifying its probe into multi-crore Rose Valley chit fund scam, the Central Bureau of Investigation on Saturday produced Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Tapas Pal before Special CJM CBI court here and prayed the court to take him on a five-day remand for further interrogation. The Central investigating agency, which had arrested Pal yesterday for […]

Guwahati/Kolkata: A vicious environment of “aggressive regionalism” is prevailing in the country, said a Trinamool Congress delegation that visited Dhala in Assam’s Tinsukia district, where militants gunned down five Bengali Hindus on November 1. The four-member delegation comprising Rajya Sabha member Derek O’Brien, Lok Sabha MP Mamata Bala Thakur, Rajya Sabha MP Nadimul Haque and […]

Kolkata: The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal took an early lead in all three tiers of the panchayat polls after nearly five hours of counting on Thursday. According to the latest trend, Trinamool went ahead in almost all the Zilla Parishad and Panchayat Samiti seats across 20 districts where rural election were held on […]

Kolkata: A supporter of an Independent candidate for the coming panchayat polls was killed in West Bengal’s Bhangar on Friday, following which police arrested local strongman of the ruling Trinamool Congress Arabul Islam. Hafizul Molla (26), a resident of Bhangar’s Machibhanga in South 24 Parganas district, died after an armed attack on a political rally […]

Kolkata: The West Bengal BJP leadership on Sunday accused the state ruling party Trinamool Congress of threatening the state election commissioner and reiterated their demand that central forces be brought in during the coming state Panchayat polls. “The Trinamool Congress is threatening the state election commissioner A.K. Singh and forcing him to work in their […]

Kolkata: Accusing the ruling Trinamool Congress government of neglecting the state’s minorities, the BJP’s West Bengal unit on Thursday asked it to make public data on jobs offered to Muslim youths in the last six years. “I want to see what she (Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee) and her government has done for the minorities — […]

Kolkata: Several people were injured and vehicles set ablaze as clashes broke out between a group of protesters agitating against a power grid project and West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress activists in South 24 Parganas district on Thursday. State Food Processing Minister and local legislator Abdur Rezzak Mollah alleged that the trouble started after activists […]

New Delhi: Suspended Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy on Wednesday resigned his Rajya Sabha seat and cited “lack of principle” as his compulsion to leave the party of which he was a founding member. He also said that he has not decided on his future plans yet. “A party should have certain principles. Sometimes Trinamool […]

Kolkata: Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mukul Roy, once the right hand man of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Monday announced his decision to quit the party. Addressing a press conference here, Roy said he would resign as the TMC’s primary member and also his Rajya Sabha seat after the conclusion of Durga […]

Agartala: Six Trinamool Congress (TMC) legislators in Tripura are likely to cast votes in favour of NDA nominee Ram Nath Kovind in the July 17 presidential poll, a party leader said on Sunday. “We have held a meeting here on Saturday night and decided not to cast our votes in favour of Congress-led opposition-backed presidential […]

New Delhi: The ED on Saturday summoned Narada News CEO Mathew Samuel on May 24 in a money laundering case it registered regarding a sting operation by his portal that showed senior TMC leaders in West Bengal allegedly receiving money in exchange for favours to a fictitious company. The Enforcement Directorate directed Samuel to visit its […]

Kolkata: West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress would hold political workers’ meet in every block and organise blood donation camps to mark the completion of the first year of its second term of office, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced here on Friday. Banerjee, also the Trinamool chief, said the blood donation camps would be organised from May […]

Bhubaneswar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Benerjee on Tuesday met ailing Trinamool Congress MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, who is currently undergoing treatment at a city-based private hospital while under arrest in the Rose Valley chit fund scam. Banerjee, who arrived in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday evening on a three-day tour to the state, went straight from Biju […]