Trinamool Congress

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: Sharpening its voice against the SSC Recruitment Scam, West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee plans to organise a massive protest rally and agitation programme on Saturday. West Bengal Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Choudhury will be present in the protest rally that will begin from PCC Headquarters, Bidhan Bhavan to Dharmatala Y Channel. The protest […]

KOLKATA: In a big development in the ongoing Enforcement Directorate (ED) investigation into the Bengal SSC Recruitment Scam, Arpita Mukherjee said that state industries minister Partha Chatterjee used to keep money at her home. Mukherjee, a key aide of the Bengal minister, is in the spotlight after ED recovered more than ₹51 crores from her […]

KOLKATA: From the plush accommodation to a makeshift lock-up on the seventh floor of Kolkata’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) office, the change in fortune of Bengal industries minister Partha Chatterjee was quite apparent. ED sources told The New Indian that Partha Chatterjee is living in a 7 by 8 feet well-furnished room at the office. However, […]

NEW DELHI: Days after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) arrested Trinamool Congress leader Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee and his aide and actor Arpita Mukherjee, the financial probe agency has summoned another party MLA Manik Bhattacharya in connection with the teachers’ recruitment scam. A senior ED official related to the probe told The New Indian, “Bhattacharya has […]

KOLKATA: With Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee finding herself caught in the quagmire over the Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s arrest of her industries minister Partha Chatterjee in the multi-crore SSC recruitment scam, Congress is leaving no opportunity to target the beleaguered TMC supremo. Senior congressman Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, president of the Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee, wrote […]

NEW DELHI: Reacting to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhubaneswar’s report that Bengal Minister Partha Chatterjee requires no hospitalisation, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s West Bengal co-in-charge Amit Malviya said that Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has institutionalised depravity and corruption. “AIIMS, Bhubaneswar’s report on arrested TMC minister Partha Chaterjee raises several questions on […]

KOLKATA: Finally breaking her silence over the SSC Scam that led to the arrest of state industries minister Partha Chatterjee, Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that those guilty will be punished. “I will not get into the details of the case since the matter is sub-judice. However, what I want is a […]

KOLKATA: The medical report prepared by the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Bhubaneswar has taken a direct swipe at the tainted Mamata government minister Partha Chatterjee, saying the medical examination done on him did not yield any indication or signs of fresh ailment in him, thereby ruling out any stay or treatment […]

Trinamool Congress (TMC) top brass is perhaps faced with its biggest political crisis ever since Mamata Banerjee broke away from the Congress to form her own party in January 1998. The arrest of West Bengal Commerce and Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee and his continuation in the West Bengal Cabinet is enough to suggest what it […]