West Bengal Politics
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Speed News: Domestic LPG cylinder prices hiked by ₹29 across the country
Originals | Jun 07, 2026, 04:48 PM ISTDomestic LPG cylinder prices hiked by ₹29 across the country. Eggs hurled at TMC MLA Madan Mitra's vehicle during a Kamarhati protest. Revanth Reddy’s 'Hitler inspiration' remark triggers political row with the BJP. Cook's negligence likely caused the massive Malviya Nagar fire in Delhi.
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Mamata Banerjee suffers another setback as close aide Krishna Chakraborty resigns as Mayor
West Bengal | Jun 04, 2026, 05:40 PM ISTMamata Banerjee is facing a series of political setbacks, with another blow coming from within her party ranks. Krishna Chakraborty, considered a close aide of the TMC chief, has resigned from the post of Mayor of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation.
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TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar quits all party posts in major blow to Mamata Banerjee
Kolkata | May 27, 2026, 05:27 PM ISTEarlier on Tuesday, Kakoli, along with six other MLAs, attended West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's administrative review meeting at Kalyani.
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Suvendu Adhikari's personal assistant shot dead in Bengal's Madhyamgram
West Bengal | May 07, 2026, 12:01 AM ISTBJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's PA Chandranath Rath sustained multiple bullet injuries in the firing and was rushed to a private hospital, where he was declared dead.
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Coming back for great opportunity to serve Bengal: Babul Supriyo after joining TMC
News | Sep 18, 2021, 04:24 PM ISTFormer Union Minister and ex-BJP MP Babul Supriyo formally joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday. Supriyo had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following the recent Union Cabinet reshuffle."I will continue to work constitutionally as an MP in Asansol. Politics is beyond the constitutional post and I withdraw myself from it. I will not join any other party. I will vacate the MP bungalow in Delhi and release security personnel from their duties soon," he was quoted saying.
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Former Union Minister from BJP, Babul Supriyo now joins TMC
News | Sep 18, 2021, 03:09 PM ISTWest Bengal leader and singer Babul Supriyo has joined TMC party today. Earlier he was a Union Minister and one of the star campaigners from BJP in west Bengal assembly elections.
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Suvendu demands TMC govt to make public pandemic purchase committee report of 2020
India | Jun 27, 2021, 06:41 AM ISTSuvendu Adhikari Saturday alleged the state was yet to come up with the pandemic purchase committee report of the year 2020.
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Will come here again and again, till Mamata didi loses election: Amit Shah in Bengal
India | Feb 11, 2021, 06:53 PM ISTAs political tussle between BJP and TMC intensifies in West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who addressed a public rally in Thakurnagar on Thursday said he will keep coming to Bengal again and again till the time Mamata Banerjee loses the election.
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Mamata convenes meeting of MPs, MLAs to counter CAB
National | Dec 12, 2019, 03:58 PM ISTAccording to party sources, poll strategist Prashant Kishor, will also be present at the December 20 meeting.
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CPI(M) in Bengal favour Congress in anti-communalism platform
National | Nov 05, 2014, 10:45 PM ISTKolkata: With CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat calling for unification of Left forces to counter the rise of “communal forces” in the country, a section of the party's Bengal committee today spoke in favour of
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Congress delegation not allowed to visit Makra
National | Nov 01, 2014, 04:21 PM ISTChaumondalpur: A Congress delegation led by the party's state unit chief Adhir Chowdhury was not allowed to enter trouble-torn Makra village in Birbhum district, which was made out of bounds for politicians by the Trinamool
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CPI(M) to discuss how to come out of the morass
National | Oct 25, 2014, 09:12 PM ISTNew Delhi: Battered in successive elections in various parts of the country barring Tripura, CPI(M) begins a four-day meet here tomorrow to decide on steps to spruce up its organisation, especially in its erstwhile strongholds