In a major development, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday announced that two former Union Ministers — Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo — will contest the upcoming West Bengal bypolls for the Trinamool Congress. The chief minister announced that Shatrughan Sinha will be the party’s candidate for bypoll to Asansol Lok Sabha seat,…Continue Reading

NEW DELHI: TRS chief K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR), like Mamata Banerjee, has been calling up his counterparts across states to forge an anti-BJP front. However any further move will be decided only after the assemble elections in UP and four other states. With political momentum gaining speed, Banerjee has taken the lead in calling a…Continue Reading

Mamata Urges Centre To Announce Netajis’s Birthday As National Holiday

Paying tribute to Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose on his 125th birthday, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee urged the central government to declare his birth anniversary, January 23, as National Holiday.In a series of tweets, Banerjee wrote: “We again appeal to the Central Government that Netaji’s birthday be declared National Holiday to allow the entire…Continue Reading

Mamata Banerjee on PM Modi’s virtual hospital launch: We inaugurated it last year

| Published: Friday, January 7, 2022, 20:16 [IST] Kolkata, Jan 7: Underlining his government’s commitment to reaching the benefits of high-quality healthcare services to the poor and the middle class, Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the second campus of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI) here on Friday. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who also…Continue Reading

‘There is no UPA now’: Mamata Banerjee takes swipe at Cong, calls for unity of regional parties against BJP

| Updated: Thursday, December 2, 2021, 0:55 [IST] Mumbai, Dec 01: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday met NCP supremo Sharad Pawar here and called for fighting the BJP unitedly while taking barely veiled swipes at the Congress leadership. While Banerjee made remarks like “there is no UPA now” and one can not…Continue Reading