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Arjun Singh, who left TMC in 2019, has been critical of the state BJP leadership

A Division Bench of Justices Harish Tandon and Rabindranath Samanta set up the Committee on February 22 to look into the alleged irregularities in the recruitment process.

Minister reaches central agency's office after Calcutta HC warns of strict action

Partha Chatterjee was the minister of education when most of the alleged irregularities occurred while Paresh Adhikari is facing questions about his daughter’s appointment.

The party, bereft of leaders with a popular appeal, recently relayed the ailing former CM’s message to youth workers.

Sources in the TMC said that because of Sushmita Dev, the former president of Mahila Congress who joined the party last year, the party could expect a strong performance in the state's Cachar and Silchar areas.

West Bengal CM’s expected message to party workers: Do not want fallout of violence to affect Lok Sabha election results like last time

The Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the association is scheduled to be held on the same day at the Kolkata Town Hall. Sources, however, said, with the polls unlikely, the post holders of the association are to be selected by the top brass of the state administration.

A year after the state was swept by violence following the Assembly election results of May 2, 2021, the victims, many of them BJP supporters, continue to live under its shadow.

Panchayat polls next year, TMC wary of 2018 memories, cases in court

In the civic body elections held in February, the ruling TMC had registered a landslide victory, winning 106 of 108 municipalities across the state. The CPI(M) won just one —Taherpur — while the fledgling Humro Party won Darjeeling.

The Krishak Bazars or farm mandis announced across the state were meant to burnish the Trinamool Congress government’s pro-farmer credentials.

Mamata Banerjee also stated that 137 Memorandum of Understandings (MoU) and letters of intent have been signed in the last two days.

She also urged Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to speak to the Central government and ensure that industrialists are not harassed by central agencies.

In her speech at the inaugural session of the sixth Bengal Global Business Summit (BGBS) in Kolkata, Banerjee asked Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to tell the Centre that “that they should not disturb industrialists through central agencies.”

Opposition claims it is because those killed in the factional feud were ruling party supporters

Though she was expected to lose to the Trinamool Congress's Babul Supriyo - she eventually lost by over 20,000 votes - Halim, 43, managed to effect a stunning turnaround in the flagging fortunes of the CPI(M).

The spotlight has stayed on West Bengal CPI(M) candidate Saira Shah Halim even after her loss in the Ballygunge Assembly bypoll. Here's how the niece of actor Naseeruddin Shah turned the tide for her party.

The poll results also saw a sharp rise in the Left’s vote share in Ballygunge, where the CPM candidate became the runner-up

Amid growing outrage over the incident, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, in her first term as CM, had termed it “doctored” and “minor”.

In 2012, when Damayanti was the joint commissioner (crime) of Kolkata Police, the Park Street rape incident had occurred.

The two-time MP and former Union minister, who would run from booth to booth during his BJP days, training his guns at the ruling party and accusing it of booth jamming, rigging and false voting, Supriyo, in his TMC avatar, was in a jovial mood on a busy polling day.

A division bench of Justice Prakash Srivastava and Justice Rajarshi Bharadwaj ordered the agency to submit a report on the progress of investigation on May 2, the next date of hearing

The AIFB's West Bengal state secretary Naren Chatterjee said that the new party flag will be hoisted on July 22.