Railways Minister Piyush Goyal flagged off the first phase of the Kolkata East-West corridor of the mass rapid transport network, but the TMC gave the event a miss after Banerjee's name did not feature in the list of invitees.
Modi Vs Didi: Is Mamata Banerjee trying to turn West Bengal into West Bangladesh?
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday likened the Citizenship Amendment Act, the National Register of Citizens and the National Population Register to "black magic: and called the BJP a "party of Dushasanas' and "off-spring of Delhi Sultan Muhammad-bin-Tughlaq".
The resolution appealed to the Union government to take back the CAA as well as rescind plans to update the NPR and implement the NRC
Months after former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah was put under house arrest for preventive measures, an unverified picture has surfaced on Twitter on Saturday in which he seemed almost unrecognizable sporting a salt and pepper beard, triggering reactions of awe and anger from netizens, including West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday sparked a row after she alleged that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose had opposed the Hindu Mahasabha's divisive politics. Addressing a function celebrating the 123rd birth anniversary of Bose, Banerjee recalled his speech at a public meeting on May 12, 1940, where he had strongly criticised the Hindu Mahasabha.
Supreme Court on Wednesday restrained all High Courts from hearing pleas on CAA till it decides petitions. The top court also seeked Union government's response on the new Citizenship law within four weeks. Supreme Court, until then, has refused a stay on the law.
The West Bengal government is planning to pass a resolution in the state Assembly against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the next three-four days, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday.
Uttar Pradesh BJP MLA Surendra Singh has, once again, made a derogatory remark by comparing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with 'a demon'. He has accused her of protecting those 'who killed thousands of Hindus'.
BJP's Dilip Ghosh has said that Mamata Banerjee police didn't take action against the people who destroyed public properties as they are her voters but our government in UP, Assam and Karnataka have taken action these people.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the 150th anniversary celebrations of Kolkata Port Trust renamed it after the founder president of Bharatiya Jana Sangh's Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.
There was tension in Central Kolkata's Dharamsala area on Saturday as a large group of students protesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit broke police barricades and came close to the sit-in venue of the Trinamool Chattra Parishad (TMCP) on Rani Rashmoni Avenue giving slogans against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who, however, asked them to calm down.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee met PM Narendra Modi in Raj Bhavan in Kolkata. The Trinamool Congress chief asserted again that she is against National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR) and Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to meet his main political foe in the West Bengal on Saturday. Mamata Banerjee, has countered Modi-led BJP govt in the Centre for their 'anti-people' policies. As a Chief Minister, Mamata has not been shy to pull up the PM or any of his top-brass ministers wherever she has felt necessary. The two are likely to hold a meeting at Raj Bhavan on Saturday while also share the stage during a programme. PM Modi embarked on a two-day visit to Kolkata on Saturday morning.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee are likely to share the stage during a programme here on Sunday, TMC sources said.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said she will boycott the January 13 opposition meeting in Delhi, alleging that Congress and Left are 'playing dirty politics in West Bengal' and that she will fight against CAA and NRC alone.
An unverified video clip, purportedly showing persons in police uniform smashing windshields of vehicles parked in a field apparently in Sujapur of West Bengal's Malda district during Wednesday's general strike called by the central trade unions, has gone viral, embarrassing the state's Mamata Banerjee government.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has called Prime Minister Narendra Modi the ambassador of Pakistan and said that instead of talking about India, he talks about Pakistan all day. Speaking at an anti-CAA rally in Siliguri on Friday, Mamata Banerjee said, "Why do you always compare our nation with Pakistan? You should rather speak of Hindustan
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Friday said that as long as she is alive the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will not be implemented in Bengal. None can snatch away the rights of the people of the country, like citizenship, the Trinamool Congress supremo said at a programme here.
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Wednesday said he is "hurt" as no senior state government representative attended the unveiling of a portrait of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on his 95th birth anniversary at the Raj Bhavan here.
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