Trinamool Congress
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Ex-Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra's widow to re-join TMC
India | Aug 29, 2021, 07:00 AM ISTThe former MLA had resigned from her Chowringhee seat in 2014 citing growing differences with TMC.
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Mamata Banerjee on NMP: Assets belong to country; BJP, Modi don't own them
India | Aug 25, 2021, 09:13 PM ISTTerming the NMP as a "shocking and unfortunate decision", the Trinamool Congress supremo alleged that the money raised by selling those assets will be used during elections against opposition parties.
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Ex-Bengal Congress president's widow likely to return to TMC
India | Aug 22, 2021, 07:11 AM ISTSikha Mitra had severed links with the TMC after her husband Somen Mitra left the party and returned to the Congress.
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1-person-1-post policy: Trinamool replaces many civic body heads
India | Aug 18, 2021, 07:37 AM ISTMinisters Arup Roy, Rathin Ghosh, Sujit Basu and others were removed from the posts of administrators of various municipalities, Urban Development and Municipal Affairs Minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said.
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Former Congress leader Sushmita Dev joins TMC hours after quitting party
India | Aug 16, 2021, 03:37 PM ISTSushmita Dev, who had been serving as the All-India Mahila Congress chief, sent her resignation to party chief Sonia Gandhi late on Sunday.
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Amit Shah behind attacks on Abhishek, TMC activists in Tripura: Mamata Banerjee
India | Aug 09, 2021, 12:30 PM ISTMamata Banerjee has alleged that Amit Shah was responsible for the recent attacks on her nephew Abhishek Banerjee in Tripura.
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'Have fish curry', Naqvi quips responding to TMC's Derek O'Brien for 'papri chaat' remark
India | Aug 04, 2021, 12:09 PM ISTBoth Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha have failed to transact any significant business, except passage of some bills, amid continued protests by Opposition parties over the Pegasus since the Monsoon session of Parliament commenced on July 19.
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Kurukshetra | How long will Opposition unity last?
Kurukshetra | Jul 29, 2021, 07:33 PM ISTAddressing the media in Delhi, Trinamool Congress chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that in 2024 “poore desh me khela hobe” (game will be on all over the country), even as she has been meeting and holding discussions with several Opposition leaders during her five-day visit to the national capital.
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BJP MP alleges being called 'Bihari Gunda'; Trinamool's Mahua Moitra denies charges
India | Jul 29, 2021, 03:15 PM ISTIt only got better when the chairman of the committee, Shashi Tharoor, said that no such meeting was held in first place. BJP leaders on Wednesday boycotted the IT committee meeting and refused to sign the attendance register.
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Haqikat Kya Hai | Mamata-Sonia meet lays groundwork for Opposition unity
Hakikat Kya Hai | Jul 28, 2021, 11:48 PM ISTWest Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday evening met Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi at 10, Janpath. Former party president and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi was also present during the meeting here.
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Mamata Banerjee to meet Sonia Gandhi, Kejriwal today as she sets ball rolling for anti-BJP front
India | Jul 28, 2021, 09:31 AM ISTTMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is making her bid to unite the Opposition against the BJP ahead of the 2024 general elections.
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TMC nominates former Prasar Bharti CEO Jawhar Sircar for Rajya Sabha by-election
India | Jul 24, 2021, 03:50 PM ISTReacting to his nomination, Sircar said that he was a bureaucrat and not a political person but would work for the development of the people and raise the issues concerning the masses in Parliament.
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Trinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha
News | Jul 23, 2021, 12:20 PM ISTTrinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining period of the Monsoon Session of Parliament. Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah said that he was deeply distressed by the course of events in House yesterday.
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TMC MP Santanu Sen, who snatched and tore IT Minister's Pegasus paper, suspended from RS
India | Jul 23, 2021, 02:18 PM ISTTrinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen has been suspended from the Rajya Sabha for the remaining period of the Monsoon Session of Parliament.
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Pegasus snooping fake news, oppn defaming nation: BJP lashes out at TMC after Rajya Sabha ruckus
India | Jul 22, 2021, 04:25 PM ISTBlasting at lawmakers of the Mamata Banerjee's party, Meenakshi Lekhi said the behaviour of TMC MPs was shameful. The issue of 'Pegasus spyware scandal' is fake news.
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Rajya Sabha: TMC MP snatches Pegasus statement from Ashwini Vaishnaw, tears it
India | Jul 22, 2021, 03:57 PM ISTTMC MPs on Thursday tore papers and flung them into the air, throwing the Rajya Sabha into bedlam as IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw read a statement on the alleged snooping using Pegasus.
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Post-poll violence in Bengal worst than Calcutta killings, 1984 riots: Suvendu blasts Mamata govt
India | Jul 21, 2021, 09:42 PM ISTLashing out at the Bengal government, Suvendu Adhikari said, "the post-poll violence in West Bengal has left behind the Calcutta killings, and the Noakhali (in Bangladesh now) riots of 1946, and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The more the inaction of government machinery during the post-poll violence is criticized, the less it is."
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Ground Report | Pegasus controversy rocks Lok Sabha, House adjourned until July 22
News | Jul 20, 2021, 05:20 PM ISTThe Pegasus snooping controversy rocked the Lok Sabha proceedings on Tuesday, leading to continued disruptions and repeated adjournments of the House. Soon after the House assembled at 3 pm, the opposition members again started raising slogans on the Pegasus snooping issue, forcing the chair to adjourn the House for the day. Several members carried placards and sought the resignation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. The House will now meet on July 22.
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TMC to hold protest in West Bengal on weekend over skyrocketing petrol, diesel prices
India | Jul 06, 2021, 08:34 AM ISTThe Trinamool Congress (TMC) will stage a sit-in protest across West Bengal rising fuel prices in the country on July 10 and 11.
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Former President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit joins TMC
Politics | Jul 05, 2021, 05:00 PM ISTCongress MP Abhijit Mukherjee, the son of former president Pranab Mukherjee, joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Kolkata on Monday. He was inducted into the party at a press conference in the city in the presence of senior TMC leaders.