Tag: Trinamool Congress

New Delhi: Calling BJP President Amit Shah a “liar and cheater”, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday accused the BJP of vandalizing Bengali polymath Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar’s statue during clashes at his roadshow in Kolkata on Tuesday. “BJP people indulged in the violence during Amit Shah’s roadshow. Roadshow is just a roadshow, you are not supposed […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s re-election bid was likely to have hinged on subjects he has tried to showcase during his tenure — ease of doing business, cutting red tape and the big heave-ho that was delivered to the Indian economy. The term used to describe him early into his prime ministership was “Disruptor”. Nationalism […]

Mumbai: Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt on Wednesday condemned the destruction of Bengali polymath Vidyasagar’s bust during BJP President Amit Shah’s roadshow in Kolkata. Bhatt tweeted: “To attack Pandit Vidyasagar is to attack Bangla language. To begin with, he simplified Bangla for studying through Borno Porichoy.” Clashes broke out between members of the Trinamool Congress students’ union […]

Mau (Uttar Pradesh): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised a “grand statue” of 19th century reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar at the same spot where his bust was vandalized in Kolkata. A bust of Vidyasagar had been vandalized during the violence that took place during BJP President Amit Shah’s roadshow in Kolkata. The Bharatiya Janata […]

Kolkata: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu and his West Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee met here on Monday to discussed the prospects of the post-poll alliance of the opposition parties against the BJP, sources said. However, neither of them talked to the media following the around 45-minute-long meeting that was held at Banerjee’s residence in […]

New Delhi: Two days ahead of the counting of votes for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, 21 Opposition parties will meet on Tuesday here to discuss the possibilities of a non-NDA alliance. The meeting of the 21 opposition parties will be held at the Constitution Club here at 1.30 p.m., Telugu Desam Party (TDP) sources […]

New Delhi: The 17th Lok Sabha will have 300 first-term members, compared to 314 in 2014, as 197 members of the outgoing House have got re-elected while 54 others were members of previous houses. According to PRS Legislative Research, which tracks the work of parliament, the average age of members in the new Lok Sabha […]

Kolkata: A day after suffering reverses in the Lok Sabha battle, West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress on Friday suspended its MLA and BJP leader Mukul Roy’s son Shubhrangshu Roy for six years alleging that he was “demeaning the party”. The party cracked the whip hours after Roy junior expressed doubts over whether his party had […]

Kolkata: Amid a saffron surge in West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress may have managed to keep itself afloat in the overall tally by winning 22 of the state’s 42 seats, but its calculations went haywire in the postal ballot section where it trailed behind its opponents in 40 constituencies. On the strength of postal […]

Kolkata: Two days after her party suffered serious setbacks in the Lok Sabha elections, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday offered to step down from the post. Banerjee said that she had expressed her desire to quit the Chief Minister’s post at an emergent meeting of the Trinamool Congress, but her decision was […]

New Delhi: Excitement was clearly visible on the faces of actress-turned-politicians Mimi Chakraborty and Nusrat Jahan on Monday, when they arrived at Parliament for the first time after getting elected in the recently concluded elections from the Trinamool Congress. The two actresses posted their joint photographs displaying the identity cards as MPs on the premises […]

New Delhi: Three MLAs from West Bengal, including Trinamool Congress-turned-BJP leader Mukul Roy’s son Subhrangshu Roy, along with more than 60 councillors on Tuesday joined the BJP here in the presence of BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya who said more TMC leaders will join the saffron party soon. The other two MLAs are Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya […]

New Delhi: Three MLAs from West Bengal, including Trinamool Congress-turned-BJP leader Mukul Roy’s son Subhrangshu Roy, along with more than 50 councillors on Tuesday joined the BJP here. The other two MLAs are Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya from Bishnupur (Trinamool) and Debendra Roy from Hemtabad (CPI-M). Roy represents Bijpur Assembly constituency. They were received at the […]

Kolkata: One person was stabbed to death while several others were injured as political violence continued in West Bengal on Sunday, the police said. Reports of houses being ransacked and activists of both the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the ruling Trinamool Congress sustaining injuries surfaced through the day. A 36-year-old man, said to be […]

Kolkata: Almost a month after the vandalising of the statue of Bengali polymath Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar during the BJP President Amit Shah’s road show in the state capital, the West Bengal government has decided to replace the bust as a symbolic gesture on June 11 at the college named after the social reformer. The state […]