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Watch: Mamata defies Bengal police, holds protest without permission in Kolkata
NEW DELHI: TMC chief Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday led a sit-in protest in Kolkata over alleged attacks on party leaders, including nephew Abhishek Banerjee. This comes a day after police denied permission to the West Bengal opposition party to hold any protest. Mamata has dared the Bharatiya Janata Party to "arrest her if they want”, adding that she would go to Delhi if not allowed to protest in Kolkata.
'I saw the threat call': Mamata claims police forced doctors to release Abhishek
Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee, on his first public foray outside Kalighat after the party’s ouster from office, was on Saturday assaulted and abused by a crowd of protesters in Sonarpur as he tried to reach the home of a Trinamool worker allegedly killed in post-poll violence. As he hopped on a motorbike and then tried to walk a 600metre muddy stretch leading to the home of Sanju Karmakar under ward 9 of Sonarpur Rajpur municipality, the protesters chased him shouting ‘chor, chor’, pelted...
ED summons TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee in teacher recruitment scam; asked to appear on June 15
KOLKATA: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Wednesday served a summons to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, directing him to appear before the agency on June 15 in connection with the primary school recruitment irregularities case, officials said. According to officials, a team of ED officers visited Banerjee's residence on Kalighat Road in south Kolkata on Wednesday evening, according to news agency PTI. As the Diamond Harbour MP was not present at the time, the summons was handed...
Several MPs head for Delhi, TMC’s Lok Sabha unit stares at split
After a split in its state legislative wing, Trinamool’s parliamentary party is also headed for a split, with several MPs already in New Delhi or expected to reach there by next week. Anticipating the development during a party National Working Committee meeting at her residence on Friday, Mamata Banerjee clipped national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s wings by appointing senior MPs Derek O’Brien and Dola Sen as joint national secretaries. Abhishek’s growing clout and style of...
ED summons Abhishek Banerjee in teacher recruitment case; residence security removed
Hours after Trinamool MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday moved the Calcutta High Court, seeking protection from any coercive action in the CID case of Trinamool MLA signature forgery case, the Enforcement Directorate issued summons to him in the primary teachers’ recruitment irregularity case. Banerjee was asked to appear before ED’s Kolkata zonal office on June 15. The development took place a little after the Calcutta HC allowed Banerjee to file a case, challenging the CID summons and...
(T)oo (M)uch (C)haos? Mamata's party faces its biggest crisis — Latest developments
Trinamool means "grassroots" — a name chosen by Mamata Banerjee when she founded the party in 1998 to project it as a movement powered from the ground up. But on Wednesday, the castle that Mamata built for over two decades seemed vulnearable and perhaps facing its greatest crisis. In an unprecedented revolt, that has drawn parallels from when Shiv Sena broke in 2022, 58 rebel TMC MLAs led by expelled leader Ritabrata Banerjee claimed control of the Trinamool Congress legislature party and...
'BJP-sponsored attack': Abhishek Banerjee vows to move court after Sonarpur assault
After TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee was allegedly beaten and pelted with stones and eggs during his visit to West Bengal's Sonarpur to meet families of post-poll violence victims, he said the entire incident had been captured on camera and vowed to move court over the attack. "They wanted to kill me. The whole incident has been captured on camera.
Assault on road, CID at door: Abhishek Banerjee faces twin blows
Former Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew and Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee faced a bruising day of political turbulence Saturday, coming under attack from protesters in Sonarpur on Kolkata's southern edge and receiving a CID summons in a fake-signature probe as pressure mounted on him after TMC's electoral defeat. Abhishek Banerjee, 38, was chased, abused and assaulted by a crowd while trying to reach the home of a TMC worker killed in post-poll violence in Sonarpur. Protesters...
Bengal signature 'forgery' case: Abhishek Banerjee seeks time to appear before CID
Trinamool Congress (TMC) national general secretary and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee on Monday sought more time from the West Bengal CID to appear for questioning in the alleged signature forgery case involving party MLAs. The CID had asked Banerjee to appear at its Bhawani Bhawan headquarters in south Kolkata by noon on Monday. However, he travelled to New Delhi over the weekend to attend a meeting of the opposition INDIA bloc.
Facing desertion by MPs, Mamata Banerjee clips Abhishek’s wings
Trinamool Congress was jolted Friday by speculation of an impending split in its parliamentary wing as several of the party’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs converged on Delhi, prompting party chief Mamata Banerjee to clip her nephew and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s wings in a last-ditch attempt to stall a repeat of what the 58-strong rebel bloc did in the assembly. She also overhauled the party organisation from top to bottom. A two-thirds split to beat the anti-defection law would...