Articles tagged under: Mamta Banerjee

Cricketer Yusuf Pathan to be TMC candidate in Bengal in Lok Sabha polls

March 10, 2024
Cricketer Yusuf Pathan to be TMC candidate in Bengal in Lok Sabha polls

Vadodara: Vadodara based former cricketer Yusuf Pathan will be the Trinamool Congress party's candidate for Lok Sabha election from Behrampur in West Bengal. Yusuf Pathan's name figured as a candidate in TMC's 42-candidate list announced today.Yusuf Pathan's brother Irfan Pathan is also a former cricketer.Pathan brothers live in Tandalja area of Vadodara. Read More

Congress and I.N.D.I Alliance continuously attack Gujarat in an attempt to target PM Modi

November 23, 2023

Ahmedabad: The Congress and its I.N.D.I Alliance partner parties, in an attempt to target Prime Minister Modi, are again and again targeting his home state of Gujarat. In one instance, Mamata Banerjee, addressing Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers at the Netaji Indoor Stadium, remarked, "The Indian team played so well that they won all the matches in the World Cup, except the one attended by the sinners," as reported by news agency PTI. She did not explicitly name anyone. The Bengal Chief Mi...Read More

Kutch origin, Bengal politician Dinesh Trivedi joins BJP

March 06, 2021
Kutch origin, Bengal politician Dinesh Trivedi joins BJP

New Delhi: Former union railway minister Dinesh Trivedi who represented Barackpore Lok Sabha constituency of West Bengal in the past in Lok Sabha and left his Rajya Sabha seat last month today joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi at BJP national headquarters in presence of party's national president JP Nadda. Trivedi had last month announced his resignation while speaking in upper house. His surprise announcement had shocked Mamata Banerjee led TMC. Trivedi announced his resignation ...Read More

Surprise Resignation by Dinesh Trivedi announced in Rajya Sabha stuns Mamata Banerjee led TMC

February 12, 2021

New Delhi: Speculations are rife that Trinamool Congress leader Dinesh Trivedi who announced his resignation from Rajya Sabha today in a surprise move may contest for upper house from Gujarat, the state where by-polls for two vacant Rajya Sabha seats will take place this month. Though active in politics in West Bengal, Trivedi is originally a Gujarati from Kutch in Gujarat. Trivedi has been Lok Sabha member from West Bengal and union railway minister in the past. Trivedi is considered one of top...Read More

Gujarat Model to be emulated In West Bengal to generate employment: West Bengal BJP chief

November 17, 2020
Gujarat Model to be emulated In West Bengal to generate employment: West Bengal BJP chief

Kolkata: Ahead of the 2021 West Bengal assembly general elections, West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said that they wanted to apply the Gujarat model to West Bengal so that they could create employment in the state. TMC chief Mamata Banerjee had earlier attacked BJP saying that the party was trying to 'transform' Bengal into Gujarat. Ghosh in his reaction agreed to Mamata's allegations, saying that BJP wanted to do it, so that citizens of Bengal could get employment in their own state withou...Read More

Gujarati as a medium in JEE Main; Mamata Banerjee’s apparent attempt to create rift over language issue stays exposed

November 07, 2019
Gujarati as a medium in JEE Main; Mamata Banerjee’s apparent attempt to create rift over language issue stays exposed

Gandhinagar: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee once again stayed exposed today while spreading lies visibly in order to create rift on the basis of languages. Mamata Banerjee in a series of tweets a day before yesterday questioned why only Gujarati language was added in addition to English and Hindi languages as medium in Joint Entrance Exams (JEE). Director General of 'National Testing Agency' (NTA) today in a statement clarified that barring Gujarat, none of the other States have a...Read More

The Kleptocrat’s Club : A note on Mamta Banerjee episode by Arun Jaitley

February 05, 2019
The Kleptocrat’s Club : A note on Mamta Banerjee episode by Arun Jaitley

Mamata Banerjee’s disproportionate over-reaction to the CBI wanting to interrogate the Kolkata Police Chief has flagged several issues for a public discourse. The most important being that a Kleptocrat’s Club now aspires to capture the reigns of India. The Chit Fund Fraud and its Investigation The West Bengal Chit Fund Fraud was unearthed in 2012-13. Its investigations were handed over to the CBI by the Supreme Court. The Court monitored these investigations. The CBI has interrogated ...Read More

BJP delegation meets EC on allowing party leaders to campaign in Bengal

February 04, 2019

New Delhi: The BJP, on Monday, met the Election Commission seeking its intervention to ensure that the party leaders, including Union Ministers and state Chief Ministers are allowed to campaign in Mamata Banerjee-ruled West Bengal. A party delegation comprising Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, S S Ahluwalia and Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Kailash Vijayvargiya pointed to the poll panel that UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was not allowed to campaign in the eastern state on Sunday. The BJP...Read More

Beat State BJP chief with stones: Imam in Kolkata issues fatwa in support of Mamata

December 12, 2016
Beat State BJP chief with stones: Imam in Kolkata issues fatwa in support of Mamata

Kolkata:A muslim cleric today said he has issued a fatwa against Dilip Ghosh for making comments against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, drawing a bitter reaction from the state BJP president. Shahi Imam of Tipu Sultan Mosque Maulana Noor-ur Rahman Barkati told a press conference today that he has issued the fatwa against Ghosh for "making filthy comments against the chief minister". "From where does he get such audacity to make filthy comments against our beloved chief minist...Read More

Gujarat denies Mamata Banerjee’s claim on GSPC

December 09, 2016
Gujarat denies Mamata Banerjee’s claim on GSPC

Kolkata: Gujarat government today denied West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's claim that the loans extended to Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation (GSPC) by banks had turned out to be non-performing assets (NPAs). "It is wrong to interpret that the loans given by banks to GSPC will turn NPAs," an official of the Gujarat government told reporters here today. The official said that the company, owned by the Gujarat government, had completed its project, laid the pipeline and had been...Read More