Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief MamataBanerjee today came out in support of the Central InformationCommission order on bringing political parties under the RTIambit.
Political parties should function in a transparent mannerand the public has the right to be informed about theirfunctioning and funding. There should be transparencysomewhere. I appreciate this move, Banerjee said.
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress Chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said regional parties will do well in the next Lok Sabha election, but evaded a question on whether Trinamool Congress will lead any non-Congress and non-BJP alliance at the Centre.
I feel that regional parties would do well in the next Lok Sabha election. I will be happy if they (regional parties) come together, Banerjee told reporters in Kolkata.
Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress is surgingahead in the Howrah Lok Sabha bypoll in West Bengal with itscandidate Prasun Banerjee leading over its nearest CPI(M)rival by 22,924 votes.
Kolkata, Apr 29 (PTI) Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh, against whom Saradha Group CMD Sudipta Sen has levelled allegations in a letter to CBI, was today summoned by the police for questioning.
Ghosh, who was summoned by the Bidhannagar city police investigating the case, told reporters that Deputy
Commissioner (Detective Department) Arnab Ghosh rang him up and wanted to talk to him. He wanted to talk to me and I have come, the TMC MP said.
Trinamool Congress Members of Parliament hold placards while demanding a special package for West Bengal during a protest at Parliament in New Delhi on March 21, 2013. Both houses of parliament were adjourned till 12 noon Thursday as the DMK and the AIADMK took up the issue of the killing of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan government during the war against the Tamil Tiger militants.
Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress supporter was killed during a clash by a group of assailants allegedly led by a party municipal councillor over a land dispute on the eastern fringes of Kolkata on Wednesday, police said.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ordered the arrest of the party councillor, while the opposition Left Front said after left cadres and the Congress, now sections in the Trinamool were becoming victims of the violence perpetrated by the ruling party.
One person has been killed and some others injured in the clash related to a land dispute in the Dhapa area, city police control room sources told reporters.
