Kolkata : TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee will meet West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at 7 pm on Monday and stake claim to form the government, after her party’s stupendous win in the assembly elections, Raj Bhavan sources said. The ruling TMC has won 212 of the 292 seats where polling was held in eight phases … Read more
SANTINIKETAN: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not confer the ‘Desikottam’, Visva-Bharati University’s highest award, during its convocation ceremony tomorrow due to paucity of time, an official said. The announcement, however, drew a sharp reaction from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Sabujkali Sen, officiating vice-chancellor of the university, said there were previous instances when the award … Read more
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and got the backing of BJP rebels Shatrughan Sinha, Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie to her efforts to forge a broad coalition of forces for one-to-one fight with the BJP in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. While Kejriwal, who … Read more
KOLKATA: Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress on Tuesday asked 10 MLAs to vote for party supported Congress candidate Abhishek Manu Singhvi in the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls. These 10 MLAs are legislators of the Congress, but have actually switched to the ruling TMC. Confirming the development, a senior Trinamool leader said, “The Congress MLAs who had … Read more
