Calling the recent visit by Union Interior Minister Amit Shah to a tribal family in West Bengal’s Bankura a “braggart”, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged on Monday that the lunch he ate there was prepared another place for a “brahmin cook”. Also claiming that the interior minister did not even …
Read More »Dilip Ghosh is a ‘virus’, says Anubrata; CBI, ED ‘manufactures vaccines’ for you, BJP replies
By: Express News Service | Kolkata | November 23, 2020 5:52:22 am Dilip Ghosh, President of the BJP of West Bengal (File photo) Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman Anubrata Mondal described BJP state president Dilip Ghosh as a “dangerous virus”, prompting a strong response from the saffron group who said the …
Read More »Bengal Pick: Mamata Banerjee “Most Secular”
Anwar Pasha took 20 former AIMIM members to Trinamool today Calcutta: Mamata Banerjee is “the most secular leader” in the country, several former AIMIM leaders said on Monday when they joined the Trinamool Congress in Bengal and promised that neither the BJP nor AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi would make political …
Read More »Mamata Banerjee begins her outreach in the tribal belt days after Shah’s visit; BJP says it’s too late – kolkata
Seventeen days after Union Interior Minister Amit Shah visited Bankura district in western West Bengal, discussed the elections with the region’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders and had lunch at a home tribal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrived in the district on Sunday afternoon. . Shah spent about eight hours …
Read More »Suvendu Won’t Quit If Mamata Talks To Him, Says TMC Leader
By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Updated: November 22, 2020 10:56:59 am However, a section of TMC leadership believes that Suvendu Adhikari can still be kept in the party fold. A section of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership is pushing for reconciliation between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and dissident …
Read More »5 TMC MPs could resign at any time, says BJP MP Arjun Singh in Bengal bound for the polls
At least five MPs from the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal can resign from the party at any time, Bharatiya Janata party MP Arjun Singh said on Saturday. The list includes TMC party veterans and heavyweights such as Saugata Roy and Suvendu Adhikari, Singh added. “At least five TMC MPs …
Read More »BJP’s Babul Supriyo Mocks Mamata By Launching Debate On President’s Government In Bengal
Union Minister Babul Supriyo has sparked a dispute by saying that there was a dawai (drug) in the Indian Constitution that can prevent a state government from terrorizing the people and has hinted that it is not impossible for the Center to take that path . Supriyo said this when …
Read More »Neither fired by CM nor resigned from the party, says rebel TMC minister after talks
Nine days after launching a veiled challenge to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leadership, West Bengal Transport Minister and heavyweight leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday sounded calm at a rally, saying that neither Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee he has fired the cabinet or left the party. “I remain a leading active …
Read More »Bengal minister keeps peace with Trinamool
Sougata Roy is in talks with Suvendu Adhikari and seems to have broken the ice to some extent. Calcutta: There is some relief for Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress, with Transport Minister Suvendu Adhikari signaling a thaw in relations with the party, at least temporarily. In recent weeks, he has made …
Read More »Amit Shah and JP Nadda will visit Bengal every month until the end of the 2021 Assembly elections, says BJP head of state
West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said on Wednesday that Union Interior Minister Amit Shah and the party’s national chairman JP Nadda will visit the state every month until the end of the elections to the Assembly. Elections to the 294-member state Assembly must be held between April and May …
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