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West Bengal Leader of Opposition and rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Ritabrata Banerjee leaves after a meeting with Election Commission officials regarding party representations, in New Delhi | Photo Credit: ANI Two factions of Trinamool Congress making claims over the party name and symbol have come up with contrary views on the Election Commission of…
Rebel Trinamool Congress leader and Cooch Behar MP Jagadish Chandra Barma Basunia on Monday (September 14, 2026) claimed that 17 of the 20 Lok Sabha members aligned with the Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPI) will join the BJP before or after Durga Puja, a claim promptly disputed by fellow dissidents. The BJP sought to…
The question is making rounds in the political circles: who will get the “ grass and twin-flowers’ symbol of Trinamool Congress in the upcoming by-elections. File | Photo Credit: PTI With by-elections for two Assembly constituencies in West Bengal -Nandigram and Rejinagar- scheduled on October 6, both factions of Trinamool Congress -one led by Mamata…
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Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee along with party MPs Kalyan Banerjee, Babul Supriyo and Dola Sen during the foundation day of the Trinamool Chhatra Parishad, in Kolkata, West Bengal, on August 28, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI The Kolkata Police on Saturday (August 29, 2026) registered a suo motu FIR against former West Bengal Chief…
TMC MP Mahua Moitra. | Photo Credit: ANI Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, seeking his intervention in the Nadia district administration’s alleged attempt to force her to vacate a Circuit House after she was initially allotted a room at the State-owned property. The Krishnanagar MP has…
Days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept the West Bengal Assembly poll in 2026, winning 207 of the 293 seats, West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya made a bold political claim. “Our doors are closed for Trinamool. There will be no ‘Trinamoolification’ of the BJP,” Mr. Bhattacharya had said. The 62-year-old leader, who had been a foot soldier of the party when its vote share was…
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The National Investigation Agency (NIA) arrests TMC councillor Shakir Ali in the 2023 Ram Navami violence case, in Hooghly. File | Photo Credit: ANI A special court on Friday (July 3, 2026) granted conditional bail to TMC leader Shakir Ali, husband of a former Lok Sabha MP of the party, in an NIA case in…
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West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari during his visit to SSKM Hospital to meet those injured in the Taratala warehouse shed collapse incident, in Kolkata on June 24, 2026. Photo: CMO/ANI Video Grab A political war of words has erupted in West Bengal over the Taratala warehouse collapse with Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari blaming the…
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In the list submitted by her loyalists, Mamata Banerjee remains the chairperson of the All India Trinamool Congress. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Amidst the ongoing rebellion in the party, the Trinamool Congress led by party chairperson Mamata Banerjee has sent a fresh list of its office-bearers and national working committee members to the Election Commission…
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