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Trinamool Congress legislators Sayantika Banerjee and Reyat Sarkar Kolkata: Two newly-elected Trinamool Congress legislators, namely Sayantika Banerjee from Baranagar and Reyat Sarkar from Bhagawangola, ignored the invitation from West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose to go to Raj Bhavan and participate in the swearing-in ceremony. Instead, the duo sat on a demonstration within the state…
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress has decided to support Congress’s K Suresh in the rare election for Lok Sabha Speaker today, according to sources. The Mamata Banerjee-led party had yesterday said it was not consulted before K Suresh was fielded against NDA candidate Om Birla and had termed the decision “unilateral”. Ms Banerjee’s nephew and…
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerje’s Trinamool Congress has remained the shaky spot in the united Opposition front over the election of the Speaker. The party, which started the day with the complaint that they were not consulted about fielding a candidate, ended it by expressing its disapproval of the Congress decision and…
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The Trinamool Congress on Friday wrote to the Election Commission demanding action against BJP candidate Abhijit Gangopadhyay over his “misogynistic” comments against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. A video circulating online purportedly shows the High Court judge-turned-politician targeting the Trinamool chief. However, the BJP has claimed that the video was fake and used by…
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The PM was addressing a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Bhadohi. Bhadohi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said the Samajwadi Party and the Congress are trying out “Trinamool politics” in Uttar Pradesh, terming it the politics of appeasement and harassment of Dalits and women. Attacking the INDIA bloc partners at an election rally in Bhadohi,…
The other leader is Trinamool’s Basirhat candidate Haji Nurul Islam. Kolkata: The West Bengal BJP on Wednesday said it has approached the Election Commission (EC) demanding the cancellation of nominations of two Trinamool Congress candidates on the grounds of serious defects in their paper. Speaking to media persons on Wednesday afternoon, BJP State General Secretary…
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The visuals are misleading as the video was cropped. Visuals of Prime Minister Narendra Modi accepting upside-down artwork depicting Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore are being widely shared on social media. The claim: The visuals are being shared to take a dig at PM Modi, who was campaigning for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the…
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The Trinamool has said it intends approach the Election Commission against the women’s panel chief. Kolkata/New Delhi: On a day the Trinamool Congress accused National Commission for Women Chairperson Rekha Sharma of “abusing her authority and being involved in a conspiracy” in Sandeshkhali, where women have claimed they were deceived by the BJP into filing…
Mr Chatterjee said that he will also file a complaint with the Election Commission of India. Kolkata: Actor-turned-politician and the BJP nominee from the Ghana Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal, Hiran Chatterjee, said on Wednesday that he has filed an FIR against his opponent and sitting Trinamool Congress MP Deepak Adhikari a.k.a. Dev, also…
Tariff rate hasn’t been increased, according to Suvendu Adhikari. (File) Kolkata: BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari accused the TMC government in West Bengal of “looting” power consumers, asserting that the state-run utility has “rearranged” tariff slabs, which resulted in an increase in electricity bills during the current summer season. Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in…
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