Kolkata: With rebel MLA Ritabrata Banerjee recognised as LoP in the Bengal assembly, the post of chairperson of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is now set to be allotted to a member of the dissident camp.The frontrunners for the post of one of the assembly’s most influential oversight panels are Ratua MLA Samar Mukhopadhyay and…
The Trinamool Congress faces a fresh legal challenge as the Calcutta High Court questioned the recognition of rebel MLA Ritabrata Banerjee as Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly.The court asked whether the Assembly Speaker could recognise a rebel leader as LoP without the consent of the political party, especially when the petitioners claimed…
A team of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Tuesday arrived for raid at the residence of former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, which also functions as the Trinamool Congress’s central office, as part of its probe into the alleged forging of signatures of TMC MLAs, a controversy that has triggered an unprecedented split…
Last Updated:June 09, 2026, 15:00 IST Former TMC leader called Mamata-led TMC a “party of thieves, rapists” and claimed he could have been “murdered by contract killers” if he had resigned during RG Kar hospital row. File image of former TMC leader Sukhendu Sekhar Ray. (Source: Sansad TV/YouTube) After quitting the Trinamool Congress Party, which…
KOLKATA: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday moved the Calcutta high court challenging Assembly Speaker Rathindra Bose’s decision to appoint Ritabrata Banerjee as the Leader of the Opposition instead of Sovandeb Chattopadhyay.The matter was mentioned before the bench of Justice Krishna Rao by advocate Sirsanya Banerjee. Chattopadhyay is the petitioner in the case, and the…
Kolkata: CID officers visited the residence of Chowringhee MLA Nayana Bandyopadhyay on Thursday regarding an FIR lodged by the Bengal assembly secretary, which alleges that her signature proposing Sovandeb Chattopadhyay as the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) was forged. Bandyopadhyay slammed the move, calling it the “harassment” of a five-time MLA and a bid to…
