MAMATA BANERJEE

KOLKATA: Amidst mounting pressure, Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday suspended Partha Chatterjee from the party till the investigations are over. The TMC disciplinary committee met in Kolkata today and took the decision to suspend Chatterjee, a fellow committee member as well as an influential party leader. TMC’s all-powerful national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee announced, “Partha […]

KOLKATA: At the special court’s hearing regarding the SSC scam matter, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday produced a deed that shows that both the accused — West Bengal tainted minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide Arpita Mukherjee —  are associated with each other since 2012. “During the search at residential premises of Arpita Mukherjee, […]

  KOLKATA: Congress and CPM on Saturday came down heavily on the ruling TMC for declaring to abstain from voting in the vice-presidential poll, calling the decision a result of the “Darjeeling pact”, a reference to Mamata Banerjee’s meeting with NDA candidate Jagdeep Dhankhar.  Days before the announcement of Dhankhar’s candidature, the TMC supremo met […]

NEW DELHI: Heavy cross-voting in favour of Draupadi Murmu became the distinctive feature of this Presidential election as the Opposition’s candidate Yashwant Sinha drew a blank in three states Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland and Sikkim. What sets the tongues wagging is an indication that Bengal satrap Mamata Banerjee’s fortress might have been breached. The result of […]

KOLKATA: All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) supremo Mamata Banerjee sets the tone for the 2024 General Election as it throws down the gauntlet at Bharatiya Janata Party saying BJP won’t get the single majority. “BJP won’t get the single majority, I can challenge and when they will not get the majority other (Parties) will become […]

KOLKATA: It was a déjà vu feeling of sorts when Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hauled its 69 MLAs to a hotel in Kolkata ahead of the Presidential elections on Monday. Taking a potshot at the decision, All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said that ‘resort politics is coming to bite BJP […]

KOLKATA: As the party is looking to expand its base across the country ahead of the 2024 General Elections, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) says six from Congress want to join the party. Party sources told The New Indian that three congressmen from the lower house and three from the […]

  DARJEELING: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who has, in the past, surprised many with her dance moves and paintings, on Friday won over the ‘Queen of Hills’ by showcasing her culinary skills.  Many in the hill town were left surprised to see the 67-year-old Trinamool Congress supremo preparing momos, the staple food of […]

NEW DELHI: In an interesting twist to the opposition’s quest for a Presidential poll candidate, former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) man Yashwant Sinha emerged as a consensus candidate. It was necessitated after Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Monday declined Mamata Banerjee’s offer to contest the Presidential election as their candidate. Sources told The New Indian that few […]

NEW DELHI: At a seemingly show of an anti-BJP front, in a throwback to the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and in its run-up when the regional giants had stitched up a combine at the swearing-in of the JDS-Congress-BSP alliance in Karnataka, Mamata Banerjee convinced a galaxy of Opposition leaders to propose Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s […]