Mamata Banerjee

Rahul Gandhi quoted Nehru's 'Tryst with Destiny' speech, rallying the Opposition against the ECI over alleged bias in electoral roll revision

Voting for the bypolls in both high-profile constituencies, Nandigram and Rejinagar, was held on October 6

He cited a medical report showing no fracture or dislocation

In her usual style, steeped in emotion and theatrics, she vowed to fight Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar as a "worker", ready to take the battle to any level

Pathan's remarks came as NCPI national president Jyoti Prokash Chatterjee wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking the nation's highest recognition for Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar for his role in conducting the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections

It is an unusual position for a bureaucrat who spent decades outside the public gaze, despite being entrusted with some of the Indian government's most politically sensitive assignments

A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana was hearing a plea filed by TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, who has sought a time-bound decision on the petitions pending before the Lok Sabha Speaker

The incident took place in the Uttarpara area, where a group carrying black flags reportedly surrounded Ghosh’s vehicle and blocked its way

Mamata Banerjee and TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee will attend the INDIA bloc meeting on September 30

The EC has frozen the TMC’s ‘twin-flower’ poll symbol and allotted ‘a football player’ for Mamata’s faction and an ‘envelope’ to Ritabrata’s

An intense political drama unfolded in West Bengal on Saturday after Mamata Banerjee's Rejinagar bypoll candidate, Rabiul Alam Chowdhury, announced to withdraw his nomination — only to make a U-turn in less than two hours

Mamata Banerjee built the TMC through rebellion against the Congress in 1998, but now faces internal revolts that threaten the party's identity and her leadership

A political controversy has erupted in West Bengal's Nandigram ahead of the by-election after Congress candidate Milan Pradhan was arrested hours after Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee extended her support to his candidature

Both groups must submit three preferred names and three free symbols by 11 am on September 18

The Election Commission of India (ECI) reserved the Trinamool Congress’ “Flowers & Grass” election symbol amid an ongoing dispute between rival factions of the party

In May 2024, she removed him after a speech case in Sitapur during the Lok Sabha campaign

The Ritabrata Banerjee-led faction has named Mohammad Eteshamul Haque from Nandigram and Safiuddin Sheikh from Rejinagar

The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) announced its candidates on Sunday for the October 6 assembly bypolls at Murshidabad district’s Rejinagar and East Midnapore’s Nandigram and the Nagaon Lok Sabha seat in Assam, keeping the rival faction, which claims the right to the TMC’s poll symbol, a step behind

The EC action comes as the last date for filing of nominations in Nandigram and Rejinagar would be September 16 and with both factions all set to file nominations claiming Trinamool symbol, the poll body will have to take a decision

The meeting comes ahead of Assembly polls in Nandigram and Rejinagar where nomination process has begun on September 9 and ends on September 16

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It is still unclear why Bristi Mukhopadhyay could have taken such an extreme decision

Kolkata Police filed a suo motu FIR against Mamata Banerjee and TMC student wing rally organisers over alleged violation of Calcutta High Court directions

After two hotel fire incidents in West Bengal last week, first at Tarapith in Birbhum district and second at Mirza Ghalib Street in West Bengal, which claimed 18 lives (nine in each case), the state government has started the exercise of reviewing and correcting the internal flaws in granting licences to hotels, lodges and guesthouses

Shah accused Mamata Banerjee's previous TMC regime of not notifiying India's three new criminal laws, BNS, BNSS and BSA, in the state

His younger brother Prasanta Banerjee was among those who discovered his dead body and alerted the police

Chanting ‘Chor’, some unidentified goons were seen pelting stones, bricks and bottles aiming at the car of Mamata at Halisahar in North 24 parganas while she was going to deceased party worker Birju Keo’s house who allegedly died under police custody

Later, TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee visited the protest site and then went to Lalbazar on a scooter

Ahead of the July 27 march, Mumbai Police met MNS chief Raj Thackeray as security preparations intensified

Actor Abhishek Banerjee joined the protesting crowds in Goa on Friday to support the students' movement for justice against the NEET paper leak scandal

The Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a resolution suspending Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee for the remainder of the ongoing Monsoon Session, citing his use of unparliamentary language against a woman member of the House

The resolution was passed by a voice vote amid sloganeering by opposition members over the NEET paper leak and other issues

TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee also condemned the "treatment meted out" to Gandhi

Earlier in the day, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and several other senior leaders sat on a dharna outside the prime minister's residence in Delhi, demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation over the police action against students protesting the NEET paper leak

Kalyan Banerjee, however, spoke for around 22-and-a-half minutes, launching a blistering attack on the BJP as well as the breakaway Trinamool faction led by Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Ritabrata Banerjee

More recently, senior TMC leaders Anubrata Mondal and MLA Madan Mitra, who made the exit, have publicly expressed frustration over TMC general secretary

Madan Mitra was one of Banerjee's longest-serving political associates and among the TMC's founding-era leaders