Kolkata, Aug 10 (SocialNews.XYZ) Trinamool Congress MLAs on Monday staged a protest in West Bengal Legislative Assembly premises over the attack on former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday at Halisahar in North 24 Parganas district. The MLAs raised slogans against the BJP government led by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and the police administration, demanding justice for Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and vowed to take out protest rallies across Bengal today. They also slammed the police over the custodial death of a Trinamool Congress worker in Halisahar. The protest march was led by senior leader Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, Kunal Ghosh, Biman Banerjee, Nayna Bandyopadhyay and others.

Kolkata, July 14 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned the wife and two sons of Madan Mitra, the Trinamool Congress legislator from Kamarhati Assembly constituency in North 24 Parganas district, for interrogation in connection with the multi-crore municipality job scam case in West Bengal during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime. Sources aware of the development said the names surfaced as the ED investigating officers were examining certain documents related to recruitment irregularities in the Kamarhati Municipality. The three have been asked to appear at ED’s Kolkata regional office in the Central Government Office (CGO) Complex at Salt Lake on the northern outskirts of Kolkata next week.

Kolkata, July 13 (SocialNews.XYZ) Tirthankar Ghosh, the defeated Trinamool Congress candidate from Panihati Assembly constituency in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal in the recently concluded election, was arrested on Monday on charges of involvement in various anti-social activities, such as alleged lottery scam, extortion and threatening people with firearms. Tirthankar, the son of Nirmal Ghosh, the former Chief Whip of Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Assembly during the previous Mamata Banerjee-led regime, had been absconding for quite some time. The cops of the Khardah Police Station in North 24 Parganas district were trying to track him.

Kolkata, July 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The majority faction of the Trinamool Congress' Legislative Party in the West Bengal Assembly, headed by the expelled party member Ritabrata Banerjee, on Thursday contended before the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) that their numerical superiority establishes their entitlement to the party's name and election symbol. A ten-member delegation of the rebel legislators met the full bench of the ECI in the afternoon, and at the end of the meeting, Ritabrata Banerjee told media persons that there was no question of separately placing the demand for the right over the name and election symbol of the party.

Kolkata, June 11 (SocialNews.XYZ) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and the party's Lok Sabha member, Abhishek Banerjee, had arrived at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police on Thursday to face questioning in connection with the legislators' signature mismatch case. Earlier in the day, a single-judge vacation bench of Justice Kaushik Chanda had directed Abhishek Banerjee, also the nephew of the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, to appear at the CID's office by 6 p.m. and face the questioning in the matter. The bench said that since Abhishek Banerjee has already dodged summons in the matter thrice, repeat of the same action would not be tolerated anymore and he would have to appear at the CID office and face questioning by 6 p.m.

Kolkata, June 3 (SocialNews.XYZ) Ritabrata Banerjee, the expelled Trinamool Congress legislator from Uluberia (Purba) constituency in Howrah district, arrived at the West Bengal Assembly on Wednesday with letters of support from 59 party MLAs, claiming that their faction is the principal opposition party in the state and not the minority group still owing allegiance to former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee. While Ritabrata entered the Assembly premises at around 10.30 a.m., the party legislators, who had signed the new resolution, started joining him one after another.

Kolkata, Dec 26 (SocialNews.XYZ) A controversy has surfaced in West Bengal after the Election Commission of India (ECI) summoned the mother, brother, and brother’s wife of a Trinamool Congress legislator to appear for hearing on the claims and objections on the draft voters’ list despite all having names in the 2002 voters’ list, the last time when the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was conducted in the state.

Ayodhya, Nov 22 (SocialNews.XYZ) As Trinamool Congress MLA Humayun Kabir announced that he will lay the foundation stone of his proposed 'Babri Masjid' in Murshidabad on December 6, the anniversary of the demolition of the original structure in Ayodhya, former Babri Masjid litigant Iqbal Ansari said on Saturday that there was no need to indulge in politics over Mandir and Masjid.

Kolkata, Nov 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) The oath-taking ceremony of six new legislators in West Bengal elected in the bye-elections earlier this month will be conducted at the state Assembly on Monday, the sixth day of the ongoing Winter Session of the House. According to information available as of now, unlike the face-off last time, things might go a bit more smoothly, with Governor C.V.