West 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.
Supriyo had quit the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) following the recent Union Cabinet reshuffle.
Mamata Banerjee's vision to empower women and ensure their maximum participation in politics shall help our society to achieve much more, TMC said as it nominated Sushmita Dev for the Rajya Sabha seat.
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.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Malviya has mocked West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her sudden visit to a mosque in poll-bound Bhabanipur. Malviya, also the national convenor of BJP's IT cell, said in the days before the by-poll she will "hop from booth to booth".
Sources in the Samajwadi Party said that the alliance with Trinamool could materialise since Akhilesh Yadav shares a warm rapport with West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Chief Mamata Banerjee.
The by-poll was necessitated due to resignation of TMC MLA Sovandeb Chattopadhyay who vacated the seat to allow Banerjee to contest from there.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday accused the BJP of using central agencies to target Trinamool Congress leaders pursuing its vendetta politics, as soon as the assembly by-poll dates were announced.
The Mamata Banerjee-led TMC registered a landslide victory in polls winning 213 seats in the 294-member West Bengal assembly.
Nikhil Ranjan Dey on Monday said the top leadership had erred by inducting TMC leaders into the BJP before the assembly polls in West Bengal.
The police said that Trinamool leader Panna Deb was arrested on Sunday following all lawful norms after her niece "mentioned Deb's name in a note before committing suicide".
Speaking to reporters at the Kolkata airport on his way to New Delhi to attend a summons by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with an alleged coal scam case, Banerjee accused the BJP of indulging in political vendetta having lost the state assembly elections.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Kaliaganj, Soumen Roy joined All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) in presence of state minister and party leader Partha Chatterjee in Kolkata on September 04.
A BJP MLA from Kaliaganj Soumen Roy on Saturday joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in presence of state minister and party leader Partha Chatterjee in Kolkata.
Pandal committees in West Bengal have collaborated to make idols of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee as Goddess Durga.
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.
BJP MLA from Bishnupur, Tanmoy Ghosh, joined TMC in Kolkata on August 30. After joining he said, "BJP is into vindictive politics. They're attempting to snatch rights of WB people by using central agencies. I urge all politicians to support CM Mamata Banerjee for public welfare".
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Saugata Roy on August 29 took a pot shot at Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and called him a 'dal badlu' for his "red carpet" remark against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
The Trinamool Congress MP was admitted to Neotia Hospital in Kolkata on Wednesday, August 25.
The former Trinamool Congress MLA from Bishnupur was apprehended following an investigation into allegations of misappropriation of money related to e-tendering and other charges when he was chairman of the local civic body in 2020, the police officer said.
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