Trinamool Congress

BJP MP Subramanian Swamy ranked Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee with Jayaprakash Narayan, Morarji Desai, Rajiv Gandhi, Chandrashekhar and PV Narasimha Rao, while appreciating her. Swamy met Banerjee recently, and further tweeted that she has a "rare quality" in Indian politics. Besides,… read-more

Congress leader Kirti Azad will reportedly join the Trinamool Congress in Delhi on November 23. Azad was a member of the winning 1983 cricket World Cup squad, and was suspended from BJP for openly targeting then Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over alleged corruption and irregularities in 2015. However, he joined Congress in 2018. He was further elected three… read-more

The Bhartiya Janta Party on November 14 alleged that the party worker Bhaskar Bera was beaten to death by Trinamool Congress (TMC) supporters. Reportedly, the incident happened in West Bengal's East Midnapore district. Bhaskar was reported to have participated in the idol immersion ceremony on November 13, after which he was called to a secluded place, and beaten to death. However, Trinamool Congress denied the allegations.    

BJP MP Arjun Singh's residence at Jagatdal, approximately 100 km from Kolkata, was targeted, as three bombs were thrown by three motorcyclists, on September 8. However, no one was injured. Dilip Ghosh, the BJP's national president, claimed that the attackers were likely members of Bengal's Trinamool Congress. CM Mamata Banerjee has been alerted to… read-more

West bengal recorded an instances of violence marked during its fifth phase of polling, on April 17. While the reports of violence have been filed in the places such as Nadia, but the overall process has been largely peaceful. Citing surge in COVID-19 cases, the Election Commission of India has issued certain guidelines for both the parties. However, TMC claims to combine all the three phases of polling.