| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-15 |
According to people involved in the operation, the Bengal MPs who left TMC did not demand any money; their demand was a guarantee of development spending in their constituencies.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-12 |
Dozens of criminals have been arrested in Bengal over the past month, and all of them were linked to the Trinamool Congress.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-12 |
A hate speech case was filed against Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata today over her election campaign remarks, in addition to an earlier FIR against her in Siliguri.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-12 |
Abhishek Banerjee's defence has no substance; because of him the party lost the election, MPs and MLAs fled, and the party broke apart, yet Mamata's affection for her nephew has not diminished.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-12 |
A CID team again reached Abhishek Banerjee's house today over an Election-Commission-ordered FIR for his 'DJ will play' campaign threat; yesterday the CID questioned him for five and a half hours in the fake-MLA-signatures case, and he has been summoned again on June 14.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-12 |
Only nine MPs now remain with Mamata Banerjee, and most of them are silent.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-12 |
Nineteen MPs who split from the Trinamool Congress — including three Muslim MPs and Abhishek Banerjee's close aide Sayoni Ghosh — will meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday to seek recognition for their faction, separate seating, and to formally declare themselves part of the NDA.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
The Gehlot-Pilot feud has resurfaced because the Congress wants to hand command of Rajasthan to Sachin Pilot, a decision Ashok Gehlot will clearly not like.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo kept knocking on the BJP's door by praising Modi, and only began expressing sympathy for Mamata after the door did not open — their stance reflects neither loyalty nor morality, only the BJP's 'no entry' board.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
The TMC lost the election, 64 of its 80 MLAs have deserted the party, 19 Lok Sabha MPs have rebelled, and everyone holds Abhishek Banerjee responsible for this ruin.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
The trigger for Kalyan Banerjee's anger was that Abhishek Banerjee changed his lawyer without informing him — Kalyan was told by a midnight phone call from Abhishek's office that the High Court case would now be argued by someone else, and the case was given to Kalyan's junior lawyer.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
It is clear that the allegations against the TMC of intimidation, extortion, tolabaji, cut-money and corruption were not baseless, and the evidence is now emerging one by one.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
Acting on a public tip that TMC members had hidden weapons, the STF raided a pond in Basirhat and recovered an arms cache of 16 guns and around 25,000 live cartridges packed in polythene underwater.
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2026-06-11 |
Cash worth Rs 1.77 crore was recovered from a locked room of Harnet School in North 24 Parganas — allegedly the illegal money of TMC leader and Kanchrapara municipality chairman Kamal Adhikari — police needed three counting machines, and the school's cashier and assistant accountant were arrested.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
Police today paraded TMC leader Jahangir Khan through the streets of Falta; he faces charges of extortion, illegal land grabbing and intimidation, and was arrested from the Nepal border.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
In Durgapur today, a crowd threw rotten eggs and tomatoes at TMC leader Sukumar Dutta, who has been arrested by police in a corruption and extortion case, as he was being taken to court.
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2026-06-11 |
A crowd surrounded Abhishek Banerjee at Kolkata airport today, jostled him and shouted 'thief, thief' slogans, and police had to form a cordon to get him safely to his car.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
The High Court ruled that the CID has the right to investigate the fake MLA-signatures case, ordered Abhishek Banerjee to appear at the CID office by 6 PM, while directing police to take no coercive action against him for two weeks and to give at least 24 hours' notice for further questioning.
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2026-06-11 |
TMC Rajya Sabha member Prakash Chik Baraik resigned today, becoming the third TMC Rajya Sabha MP to resign after Sukhendu Sekhar Roy and Sushmita Dev, and then went straight to BJP MP Nishikant Dubey's house.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
Senior TMC MP Saugata Roy said he too is unhappy, that even speaking to Mamata Banerjee has become difficult, and that Mamata should now take the Congress party's help.
TMC senior dissent
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-11 |
TMC Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee warned Mamata Banerjee today that she must choose between him and Abhishek Banerjee, and that he will quit the TMC if the nephew remains in the party.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-10 |
Legal experts told the anchor the Nathwani and Natarajan cases differ: Parimal Nathwani's affidavit had only technical name errors that he corrected, whereas Meenakshi Natarajan failed to disclose a court case and had discrepancies in asset details, which are not technical errors.
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2026-06-10 |
TMC leader Jahangir Khan was arrested by police at the Nepal border yesterday, and a fire broke out today at the South 24 Parganas zilla parishad office, suspected to be arson by his associates to destroy evidence.
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2026-06-10 |
In Durgapur today, government relief materials, voter lists and files were recovered from a godown belonging to former minister Pradip Majumdar, and the godown has been sealed.
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| Rajat Sharma |
2026-06-10 |
During Mamata Banerjee's rule there was rampant loot and intimidation in West Bengal, which is now spilling out into the open.
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