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  BJP fact-finding team meets Bengal rape victim's family, criticises govt over women's safety

  India | April 15, 2022 16:33 IST

  A BJP fact-finding team met the family members of the minor girl in Hanshkhali in Nadia district, who died after being allegedly gang-raped earlier in the month.

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  In UP, BJP faces what TMC had to in Bengal ahead of Assembly polls. We know how the story concluded

  Elections | January 11, 2022 18:30 IST

  Top minister Swami Prasad Maurya quit BJP and joined Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party. Shortly after Maurya's resignation went public, three more sitting MLA's - Roshan Lal Verma, Brijesh Prajapati and Bhagwati Sagar - announced that they are quitting the party too.

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  TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien suspended for rest of Winter Session over 'unruly behaviour'

  India | December 21, 2021 18:39 IST

  As many as 12 opposition MPs were suspended from the Rajya Sabha on November 29 for the entire Winter session of Parliament for their 'unruly' conduct in the previous session in August.

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  Winter session: TMC urges to bring in Women's Reservation Bill in Parliament

  India | November 28, 2021 12:10 IST

  The Women's Reservation Bill, in discussion for some time, proposes to amend the Constitution to reserve 33 pc of all seats for women in the Lok Sabha and all legislative assemblies.

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  Bypoll results: Mamata demolishes BJP in Bengal; Congress gains huge in Himachal

  India | November 03, 2021 0:05 IST

  The TMC's triumph not only added more insult to injury the BJP faced in the general election but also buttressed Banerjeee's already strong claim to lead a broadbased anti-BJP opposition alliance, if at all it is formed ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

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  Actor Nafisa Ali, tennis champion Leander Paes join TMC as Mamata Banerjee eyes Goa polls 2022

  India | October 29, 2021 16:40 IST

  Mamata Banerjee who is on 3-day Goa tour said that her party wants the state to be strong, just like West Bengal.

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  'TMC trying to kill me': BJP MP Arjun Singh after another bomb explosion outside his house

  India | September 14, 2021 15:14 IST

  Around 9.10 am, bombs exploded on a vacant patch of land, which is just about 200 metres away from Singh's Bhatpara residence, a police officer said.

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  Bengal: Bombs hurled at BJP MP Arjun Singh's home, party says state under TMC's 'goondaraj'

  India | September 08, 2021 13:52 IST

  Although there has been no reaction from the BJP MP over the incident, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar posted about what he called unabated "wanton violence" in Bengal and said he had flagged his concern to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

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  Narada sting: ED names TMC ministers Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee in chargesheet

  India | September 01, 2021 17:41 IST

  Trinamool ministers Subrata Mukherjee and Firhad Hakim, MLA Madan Mitra and former mayor of Kolkata Sovan Chatterjee were arrested on May 17 by the CBI which is investigating the Narada sting tape case on a 2017 order of the High Court.

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  Mamata Banerjee on Delhi visit next week: Will meet PM Modi

  India | July 22, 2021 17:50 IST

  According to reports, the West Bengal CM is scheduled to arrive in Delhi on Monday, July 26 and will spend five days in the national capital.

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  Mamata Banerjee's swipe at Centre over Pegasus row: I have plastered my phone

  India | July 21, 2021 16:39 IST

  Calling on the Opposition to unite against the BJP, she said that 'Khela' will happen in all states until the saffron brigade is removed from the country.

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  President's rule in Bengal? SC seeks response from Centre, Mamata govt and EC

  India | July 01, 2021 19:05 IST

  The top court is already hearing a batch of pleas related to post-poll violence in Bengal and seeking probe by an independent agency into the alleged killing of BJP workers and sympathisers.

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  Kolkata vaccine scam: BJP demands CBI inquiry in fake vaccination drive

  India | June 25, 2021 15:22 IST

  The fake vaccine drive mastermind Debanjan Deb was earlier arrested organising a COVID-19 vaccination camp in the city's Kasba area, where actor and Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty had also got her jab.

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  She applied sindoor and now claims didn't marry, Mamata should sack her: Dilip Ghosh on Nusrat Jahan

  India | June 23, 2021 17:34 IST

  The BJP state chief even went on to say that the woman MP has shamed the Indian ideology.

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  Anti-BJP parties meet at Sharad Pawar's house, third front was not on agenda, they say

  India | June 22, 2021 21:23 IST

  The meeting participants – including Congress, AAP, Trinamool, NCP, Samajwadi Party - however downplayed any political angle to the meeting which was held under the aegis of Yashwant Singh's Rashtra Manch, an apolitical grouping with distinct anti-BJP views.

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  PM Modi should resign owning responsibility for COVID-19 surge: Mamata Banerjee

  Elections | April 19, 2021 10:52 IST

  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday demanded PM Modi's resignation for failing to contain the spread of COVID 19

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  BJP leader says 5 Trinamool MPs ready to join party, TMC lashes out

  India | November 21, 2020 20:05 IST

  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member from West Bengal's Barrackpore constituency Arjun Singh on Saturday claimed that as many as five Trinamool Congress MPs are ready to join the saffron brigade and they can resign anytime soon.

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  Shocked to hear about Tapas Paul's demise: Mamata Banerjee

  India | February 18, 2020 12:58 IST

  Describing Tapas Paul as a superstar of Bengali cinema, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said she was "saddened and shocked" to hear about his demise.

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  Mamata govt restores Sovan Chatterjee's security

  India | November 02, 2019 13:59 IST

  Chatterjee, who crossed over to the BJP snapping his two-decade innings with Trinamool on August 14, visited Banerjee's residence on Tuesday with his friend Baisakhi Banerjee. On Friday morning, eight police personnel were seen doing duty on the ground floor of Chatterjee's south Kolkata house.

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  Parota vs paratha: Flex campaign creates political buzz in Bengal

  India | October 26, 2019 12:12 IST

  The flexes written in Bengali, with identical measurements and designs, started appearing from last week with the tagline "bhalo bhasha" (good language) and "nijer bhasha nijer thak" (let your language be yours).