Bengal: Speculations on BJP leader Rajib Banerjee rejoining Trinamool as he meets former colleague

Banerjee, a former state minister, had quit Trinamool and joined the BJP ahead of Assembly elections.

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· Yesterday · 09:34 am

West Bengal: Mukul Roy rejoins Trinamool Congress after leaving party four years ago

Roy and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee indicated that more leaders could break ranks from the BJP and join TMC.

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· Jun 11, 2021 · 04:47 pm

Former Bengal chief secretary’s sister-in-law appointed as advisor to tourism development board

Alapan Bandyopadhyay had become the centre of a political fight between Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee.

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· Jun 08, 2021 · 04:56 pm

TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee criticises BJP, says ‘sometimes dynasty is better than nasty’

Banerjee was responding to BJP’s claim that his promotion to Trinamool Congress’ general secretary was a show of dynasty politics.

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· Jun 07, 2021 · 09:44 pm

West Bengal: TMC’s Mahua Moitra alleges people related to governor appointed in Raj Bhavan

Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar, however, rubbished the allegations, calling them ‘factually incorrect’.

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· Jun 07, 2021 · 11:32 am

Trinamool Congress appoints MP Abhishek Banerjee as general secretary

The party made a number of changes in its organisational setup at a working committee meeting.

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· Jun 05, 2021 · 06:13 pm

Bengal post-poll violence: SC seeks government’s reply on plea for compensation for victims

The petition claimed that the post-poll violence following the Assembly elections results led to an exodus of people and their internal displacement.

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· May 25, 2021 · 12:42 pm

How Mamata Banerjee painted the BJP as an ‘alien outsider’ to beat it in its own game

The saffron party’s nationalist populism has met its match in its regional variant deployed by the Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Assembly elections.

Ambar Kumar Ghosh

· May 13, 2021 · 03:30 pm

Welfare, Hindutva and Bengali nativism: The political ideas that shaped the 2021 Bengal polls

If Trinamool’s welfare provided dignity to the poor, the BJP tried to do the same by offering a Hindu rashtra where backward castes would be better treatment.

Indrajit Roy

· May 08, 2021 · 07:30 am

‘I’m alive,’ says journalist featured in BJP video as party worker killed in Bengal poll violence

After Abhro Banerjee pointed this out on social media, the saffron party deleted its video.

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· May 06, 2021 · 02:34 pm

Why BJP’s labelling of Bengal post election violence as communal is misleading

In Bengal’s ‘party society’, violence is based on party affiliation, not religion.

Shoaib Daniyal

· May 05, 2021 · 07:30 am

Bengal election: How BJP and TMC are using old census data to fuel identity-based politics

Both sides are misinterpreting statistics to create a volatile political atmosphere, analysis shows.

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

· Mar 29, 2021 · 01:30 pm