West Bengal

The TMC, however, said the police should investigate whether the complaints are genuine by nature.

Congress and BJP criticised Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee for what they termed as fostering a "lawless situation" and attempting to "communalise the issue".

Meanwhile, the BJP’s high command sent a six-member fact-finding team which will visit Sandeshkhali on Friday. The team landed in Kolkata on Thursday evening.

In another development, the high court on Tuesday took suo motu cognizance of allegations of sexual assault on women by TMC satraps and forcible transfer of tribal land in the area.

The judge said he was pained and "very disturbed" over media reports on alleged sexual harassment of women at Sandeshkhali, and taking away of tribal land in violation of legal formalities and laws.

The party announcement was posted on platform X.

He said the prime minister, in his speeches in the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Sabha, should share why opposition MPs are denied basic rights.

Former state president Dilip Ghosh was given a berth in the committee which has surprised many within the party as he is presently not in the hierarchy of state or national level of the party.

Banerjee along with leaders of her party, the TMC, started the demonstration on Friday afternoon.

Party general secretary Jairam Ramesh asserted that the paramount objective of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections is to unseat the BJP government at the Centre.

Today you (BJP) are in power that is the reason you are moving around with central agencies. what will happen tomorrow? Mamata asked.

Claiming that TMC was eager to deboard the opposition INDIA bloc 'train', Salim said the CPI(M) would welcome any such move.

"I offered the Congress two seats in Bengal but they wanted more and the BJP would have been benefited. The TMC is the only party which can defeat the CPI(M), BJP and Congress alone in Bengal,” she said.

The statement came after Derek O'Brien blamed him for seat-sharing talks between the two parties not going through in West Bengal.

They will highlight issues like the Bilkis Bano case and BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya’s choice of words for Banerjee.

The BJP also waded into the TMC-Congress tussle, claiming that Banerjee's decision is a sign of her desperation and it will be a "death knell" for the INDIA bloc.

Addressing an all-faith rally in Kolkata, the TMC chief expressed her unwillingness to accept the Left Front led by CPI(M) controlling the agenda of the INDIA bloc meeting.

NEW DELHI: Manipur has been “torn apart” for over eight months now but the Prime Minister has still not visited the state, Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien Sunday said on Sunday. He made the remarks in a post on X on the statehood day…

Banerjee's remarks come close on the heels of vocal TMC critic Adhir Chowdhury's assertion that the Congress wouldn't "beg" for seats from the Trinamool Congress.

The Bengal CM said that 'Pran Pratistha' or consecration is not the job of politicians but of priests.