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The party recently created a special initiative to focus on nearly 160 Lok Sabha constituencies, in which in previous elections it has seldom won, or lost by a close margin. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | BJP gets cracking on 2024 strategy as Opp. flounders

By most accounts, the saffron party already has an inertial and incumbent’s edge for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections

10 Mar 2023 12:05 AM

No one expected Rahul Gandhi to actually walk, undistracted and uninterrupted, for over 100 days covering 3,500-odd kilometers before reaching New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | How the three-shell trick works in India’s politics

Every politician knows, some far better than others, how to hide the dirty pea under a shell and confuse the voter about where it went

03 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

Security personnel use water canons to disperse BJP supporters from the Howrah Bridge during their 'Nabanna Abhijan' (March to Secretariat) to protest against alleged corrupt practices of TMC government, in Kolkata, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Order swift Kolkata inquiry to fix blame for violent stir

A photo in a prominent daily shows a “peaceful” protester violently kicking a helmeted police officer sprawled helplessly on the pavement

16 Sep 2022 12:05 AM

Calcutta High Court on Monday ordered that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) be made a party in a petition seeking a probe into the astronomical growth of assets of 19 leaders of the ruling party including seven ministers and the Speaker. (Photo: PTI)

Calcutta HC: Make ED party in PIL to probe 19 TMC leaders' assets

Shameek Bhattacharya pointed out that the TMC cannot call it a conspiracy of the Centre since the directive came from the judiciary

08 Aug 2022 11:30 PM

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during a meeting, at Kalighat in Kolkata. (PTI)

Abhishek back as TMC No 2, reinstated as national general secretary

Kolkata Mayor and state transport minister Firhad Hakim will be the coordinator in the national panel

19 Feb 2022 7:42 AM

Amid reports of rift in TMC, Mamata abolishes senior party posts

She constituted a TMC national working committee of 20 members which is led by her and would run the party from now

13 Feb 2022 8:50 AM

West Bengal CM and TMC's re-elected Chairperson, Mamata Banerjee interacts with party workers after the party's organisational election, in Kolkata, Wednesday, Feb. 02, 2022. (PTI Photo)

Let's work unitedly to oust BJP: Didi to regional parties

Ms Banerjee accused the Congress of actually working to aid the BJP in several states

03 Feb 2022 8:31 AM

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar (PTI file photo)

Dhankhar taunts WB minister: Make CM the Governor also; attacks Assembly Speaker

You better make the CM the governor while appointing her as the chancellor, West Bengal governor Jagdeep Dhankhar said

26 Dec 2021 6:22 PM

West Bengal chief minister and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee. (Photo:PTI)

Anita Katyal | Why Didi is on poaching spree; cousins fight a turf war in UP

Mamata is also in touch with G-23 members, the group of Congress leaders who are known to be unhappy with the way Congress is functioning

28 Nov 2021 12:15 AM

Congress leader Kirti Azad to join TMC in Delhi today

A cricketer-turned-politician, Azad was elected to Lok Sabha thrice from Darbhanga in Bihar

23 Nov 2021 11:53 AM

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (PTI Photo)

Can't rely on Congress for 2024 battle against BJP: Mamata

The Trinamul Congress supremo also refused to rely on the Congress in her battle against the BJP in 2024

01 Nov 2021 7:30 PM

West Bengal CM and TMC Supremo Mamata Banerjee flashes victory sign with Tennis veteran Leander Paes as he joins the party, in Panaji. Party MP Derek O'Brien is also seen. (PTI)

Modi will be more powerful as Congress not serious about politics, says Mamata

Trinamool Congress has announced that it will be contesting all 40 seats in the upcoming Goa elections

30 Oct 2021 1:06 PM

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives in Panaji, on Oct 28, 2021. (PTI)

BJP calls me anti-Hindu, but TMC also stands for temple, mosque and church: Mamata

Banerjee accused the BJP of defacing her posters in the state and said people of India will deface the saffron party

29 Oct 2021 1:29 PM

Mukul Roy, who returned to the Trinamul Congress after winning a West Bengal Assembly seat on a BJP ticket, tweeted: "Mr @narendramodi is so helpless to save his party that other than changing CMs, he has also had to resort to using pictures of growth & infrastructure seen under @MamataOfficial’s leadership as his own.” — Twitter

TMC taunts BJP as Yogi government advertisement shows flyover in Kolkata

For damage control, BJP’s Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari later tweeted the newspaper’s correction

13 Sep 2021 8:36 AM

The Modi government has certainly provided enough ammunition to the Opposition to craft the attack. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Centre vs states: Key to anti-BJP unity of Opp.

There is more to winning in UP, Uttarakhand or Goa than merely putting a BJP man in the CM’s chair

08 Sep 2021 2:44 AM

Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee (PTI file photo)

BJP threatens EC of taking legal steps seeking stay on Bhowanipore bypolls

Wondering whether the EC was an 'astrologer', state BJP general secretary Sayantan Basu asked if Bhowanipore was free from Covid-19

07 Sep 2021 8:10 AM

The Mamata Banerjee government has, meanwhile, assigned 10 senior IPS officers to assist the special investigation team set up on the orders of the Calcutta high court on August 19 to probe the incidents of post-poll violence. — calcuttahighcourt.gov.in

West Bengal post-poll violence: CBI files first chargesheet

A CBI team interrogated the duo in jail recently after getting the court’s permission and before submitting the chargesheet

03 Sep 2021 12:13 AM

Congress leader P. Chidambaram had watched the live broadcast of Ms Banerjee’s virtual speech, which was organised by the TMC at the Constitution Club in New Delhi, on the occasion of its annual Shahid Diwas event. — DC file photo

Pegasus: Cong reaches out to Didi ahead of her Delhi visit

The Congress sent the message of solidarity to the Trinamul Congress supremo a day before she flies to New Delhi on a four-day visit

26 Jul 2021 9:06 AM

Nishith Pramanik is an MP of Coochbehar in North Bengal, Jagannath Sarkar is an MP of Ranaghat in Nadia.

2 BJP MPs skip MLA oath despite win; Suvendu Adhikari likely to be Oppn leader

According to sources, the duo wished to the BJP leadership to continue as Lok Sabha MPs rather than as MLAs

10 May 2021 12:00 AM

TMC chief Mamata Banerjee with her nephew Abhisekh Banerjee's daughter Azania (R), during interaction with media after trends show her party's wins in the State Assembly Election 2021, in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | After Bengal win, Didi to target BJP across India

The timetable for when and how Mamata Banerjee launches the counter-offensive is unclear, but it will happen

02 May 2021 11:04 PM

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