In the last 11 years of Trinamool Congress rule, Banerjee did not make any changes in the two departments — Finance and Panchayat and Rural Development.
The BJP has blamed Trinamool Congress for the incident, alleging that Maiti was killed for exposing the corruption of the ruling party.
The BJP has alleged that Moitra, who didn't have the jurisdiction to enter the centre with personal bodyguards, made the move to influence the counting personnel.
"We have started our organisational activities in Goa," Mamata's nephew Abhishek Banerjee said in a rally held finally after repeated postponements as the Tripura Police withheld permissions due to Covid-19 pandemic.
Banerjee, a former minister in the Mamata Banerjee government, said he "repents" for joining the BJP ahead of the assembly elections despite being asked by the West Bengal chief minister not to leave TMC.
During her maiden interaction with TMC leaders in Goa, Mamata Banerjee accused BJP of defacing her posters in the state and said people of India will deface the saffron party.
Banerjee, who is on a three-day tour of the coastal state, arrived at the Dabolim airport around 5.30 pm where she was received by TMC MP Derek O'Brien and local leaders.
Chidambaram, who is the Congress' senior election observer for the assembly polls next year, asserted that the Trinamool Congress' entry into Goa "appears to be an imposition from the top that is based in West Bengal" and said he does not know the Mamata Banerjee-led party's motive in trying to start a unit in Goa by "encouraging defections" from other parties.
Sushmita Dev, who is overseeing TMC's activities in Tripura alleged that the BJP workers were responsible for the attack.
Kishor had worked for the TMC in the March-April assembly polls and shares a very good relationship with the party's top brass.
Trinamool Congress leader Sushmita Dev was one of the first leaders to reach Lakhimpur Kheri after the October 3 incident. Dev explains in detail what happened there.
In June, Mukul Roy, who won from Krishnanagar North assembly seats, left the BJP to rejoined the Trinamool
Making her victory sweeter, her party’s candidates for the other two by-polls in the state, in Jangipur and Samserganj, notched up impressive victories with TMC’s Jakir Hossain winning Jangipur by a massive margin of 92,480 votes in a one-sided fight.
Congress spent Rs 84.93 cr (Rs 84,93,69,986) for electioneering in Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and WB during assembly elections.
Boxing champion Lenny Da Gama and former Indian football defender Denzil Franco on Saturday joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Goa.
A high voting rate at 78.60 pc and 76.12 pc was recorded in Murshidabad's Samserganj and Jangipur seats respectively.
Talking to reporters during a press conference, the former Goa chief minister also said TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee would visit the state once the ongoing 15-day 'pitru paksh' period, which is considered inauspicious for launching new projects, gets over.
Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut also said that the Sena will contest 22 out of the 40 seats which make up the state legislative assembly.
Former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro, who resigned from Congress, has joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Kolkata on Wednesday.
Faleiro, who previously served two terms as a Chief Minister of Goa, submitted his resignation on Monday as an MLA to the Speaker of Goa Assembly ahead of state Assembly elections next year.
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