"The BJP is still in power as there is no alternative. The day there is one, it will be ousted," West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said while addressing the party's organizational meet.
Asserting her firm control over the party, Mamata Banerjee packed the new working committee with party veterans but included nephew Abhishek.
Voting will be held on Monday in all assembly seats in Goa and Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Election officials said all arrangements have been made to conduct polling while following COVID-19 protocols.
Charging that the Narendra Modi-led NDA Government should be dumped for its alleged anti-people policies, K Chandrashekhar Rao said he would play a major role in uniting anti-BJP political parties.
Mamata Banerjee had notified of the meeting to be held today at her Kalighat office at 5 pm. According to sources, the issue of the candidate list for the upcoming municipal elections in the state is also among the key issues being discussed.
The infighting in the ruling TMC escalated on Friday as leaders considered to be close to party national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee took to Twitter to advocate the "one person one post" policy.
After the debacle of the Trinamool Congress in the Lok Sabha elections in 2019, Kishor was introduced to Mamata Banerjee by Abhishek Banerjee and I-PAC took over the responsibility of the party.
When asked if she has plans of contesting the 2024 general elections from Uttar Pradesh, the West Bengal chief minister replied that she would talk to Akhilesh Yadav about it.
The differences between the TMC party high command and I-PAC reached a flashpoint when a list of candidates for the 108 Municipalities was uploaded on the party website without the approval of the Chief Minister.
Mumbai BJP unit functionary Vivekanand Gupta approached the metropolitan magistrates court at Mazgaon in December 2021 with a complaint, alleging that Banerjee, who is also head of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), had showed disrespect to the national anthem.
TMC will stay out of the race in the upcoming UP assembly elections, and will support Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party.
Mamata Banerjee had founded the party in 1998 after breaking away from the Congress, and has headed it ever since.
TMC MP Santanu Sen has alleged that a part on India's map on WHO's website showed data related to Pakistan, while the other portion showed data related to China.
"We have seen post-poll violence of unprecedented level. Those who dared to vote according to their own volition had to pay the price with their life," West Bengal Goveror Jagdeep Dhankhar said after paying floral tributes at the statue of B R Ambedkar on the assembly premises on the National Voters Day.
The real tribute would be have been paid had the Centre taken steps to unearth the mystery shrouding Netaji's disappearance, TMC said.
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh described Malviya’s “wild” claim as a desperate bid to deflect people’s attention from the “growing feud” within the BJP’s state unit.
Nanda, who returned from poll bound Uttar Pradesh on Monday, held an hour-long meeting with Banerjee at her residence on the issue. One of the longest-serving fisheries ministers of West Bengal during the erstwhile Left Front regime, Nanda had merged his party, the West Bengal Socialist Party with Samajwadi Party in 2010.
The fight started when the Congress leader said that the real fight in the state is between BJP and Congress. He added that the Kejriwal-led AAP and Mamta Banerjee-led TMC will have to divide amongst the remaining votes.
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) state president Uma Shankar Yadav met Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav. The NCP announced that it has forged an alliance with the SP and has got one seat to contest.
In a major pre-poll promise, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) combine on Tuesday, promised subsidised housing to 50,000 homeless native families and an expeditious process for clear land title to long-staying tenants, defined under the twin legislations, namely 'The Goa Daman and Diu Agricultural Tenancy Act, 1964' and 'The Goa Daman & Diu Mundkars (Protection from eviction) Act, 1975'.
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