Ex-Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra's widow to re-join TMC
India | Aug 29, 2021, 07:00 AM ISTThe former MLA had resigned from her Chowringhee seat in 2014 citing growing differences with TMC.
The former MLA had resigned from her Chowringhee seat in 2014 citing growing differences with TMC.
Terming the NMP as a "shocking and unfortunate decision", the Trinamool Congress supremo alleged that the money raised by selling those assets will be used during elections against opposition parties.
Sikha Mitra had severed links with the TMC after her husband Somen Mitra left the party and returned to the Congress.
Ministers Arup Roy, Rathin Ghosh, Sujit Basu and others were removed from the posts of administrators of various municipalities, Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said.
Sushmita Dev, who had been serving as the All-India Mahila Congress chief, sent her resignation to party chief Sonia Gandhi late on Sunday.
Mamata Banerjee has alleged that Amit Shah was responsible for the recent attacks on her nephew Abhishek Banerjee in Tripura.
Both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have failed to transact any significant business, except passage of some bills, amid continued protests by Opposition parties over the Pegasus since the Monsoon session of Parliament commenced on July 19.
It only got better when the chairman of the committee, Shashi Tharoor, said that no such meeting was held in first place. BJP leaders on Wednesday boycotted the IT committee meeting and refused to sign the attendance register.
TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is making her bid to unite the Opposition against the BJP ahead of the 2024 general elections.
Reacting to his nomination, Sircar said that he was a bureaucrat and not a political person but would work for the development of the people and raise the issues concerning the masses in Parliament.
Trinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining period of the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
Blasting at lawmakers of the Mamata Banerjee's party, Meenakshi Lekhi said the behaviour of TMC MPs was shameful. The issue of 'Pegasus spyware scandal' is fake news.
TMC MPs on Thursday tore papers and flung them into the air, throwing the Rajya Sabha into bedlam as IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw read a statement on the alleged snooping using Pegasus.
Lashing out at the Bengal government, Suvendu Adhikari said, "the post-poll violence in West Bengal has left behind the Calcutta killings, and the Noakhali (in Bangladesh now) riots of 1946, and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The more the inaction of government machinery during the post-poll violence is criticized, the less it is."
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will stage a sit-in protest across West Bengal rising fuel prices in the country on July 10 and 11.
A committee constituted by the NHRC had on Wednesday submitted a report before the High Court on cases of alleged human rights violations in post-poll violence in West Bengal.
Recently, six BJP workers shaved off their hair when they swapped party flags in Hooghly.
Nusrat Jahan, who is dating actor-politician Yash Dasgupta in recent times, had earlier said that her marriage is invalid in India.
Apart from Mamata Banerjee's high-profile election petition against BJP's Suvendu Adhikari, four other election petitions of TMC candidates who lost to BJP candidates in the recent Assembly elections were heard by Calcutta High Court on Friday.
Bharatiya Janata Party has sought the disqualification of party turncoat Mukul Roy from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
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