Six BJP activists were injured, two of them critically, in an alleged bomb attack by the rival TMC workers in West Bengals South 24 Parganas district, police said on Saturday.
Family members of those...
Former Trinamul Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi joined the BJP on Saturday, weeks after he announced quitting his Rajya Sabha membership on the floor of the House deploring "violence" in ...
Calcutta High Court on Friday stayed orders passed by two judicial magistrates of a court in Tamluk allowing the state government to withdraw criminal cases against 13 Trinamul Congress supporters acc...
Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee did not opt for one-strategy-suits-all format while choosing candidates for seats that were represented by heavyweights who left the party to join the BJP.
T...
The announcement of Trinamul Congress candidates sparked protests at several places in the state on Friday despite Mamata Banerjee trying her best to keep defectors to the BJP under pressure.
At Bhan...
“In 2011, we had fielded Rudranath Bhattacharya, a local doctor, and had achieved success. But in 2016, the party made an experiment by bringing in Bhaichung Bhutia who was defeated. It is surpr...
Aroop Biswas
Constituency: Tollygunge
Profession: Politician
Age: 57
Known for: Manages the Tollywood clan of Trinamul
Date of polling: April 10
Partha Chatterjee
Constituency: Behala West
Professi...
Sources aware of the strategising in Trinamul on candidate list said though Team PK got the inputs from the ground level and the first draft of candidates was drawn up based on these feedback, Mamata ...
By Devadeep Purohit, Snehamoy Chakraborty in Calcutta, Bolpur(Birbhum)
Mamata Banerjee’s announcement on Friday that the Trinamul Congress would not field candidates in three hill Assembly seats and instead let her “friends” contest put party supporters...