Mimi Chakraborty

West Bengal Assembly election 2021, Jadavpur profile: Seat to witness tough fight between CPM-Congress alliance and TMC

In the 2016 West Bengal Assembly election, CPM's Sujan Chakraborty won the Jadavpur seat against Manish Gupta of the TMC. Gupta was the runner-up after securing 84,035 votes

'Faith is beyond attire': Nusrat Jahan slams religious 'hardliners' criticising her for sporting 'un-Islamic' look; Shazia Ilmi supports TMC MP

Nusrat Jahan was seen sporting sindoor – traditionally worn by Hindu and Jain women – and a pink and white saree during her oath-taking ceremony in Parliament on 25 June.

From Smriti Irani to Nirmala Sitharaman: Women ministers among top guns in Narendra Modi 2.0 Cabinet

Irani isn’t an actor-turned-politician who just come out of nowhere and turned Amethi’s 39-year-old political affiliations on its head.

'Not a place for TikTok': TMC MPs Mimi Chakraborty, Nusrat Jahan trolled for clicking pictures outside Parliament

The act of the two TMC MPs did not seem to go down well with a section of netizens, as a number of messages trolling the two actors appeared on social media.

Grip on citadel threatened, Mamata Banerjee now has only Bengali pride and Muslims in arsenal to fight BJP

In Mamata Banerjee’s metropolitan citadel, the ‘Muslim factor’ was not at work, except, to a small extent, at Jadavpur, which has 33.24 percent Muslim population, clustered in one of the seven Assembly segments.

Lok Sabha poll results: With 22 seats for the TMC, 18 for BJP, did Mamata Banerjee win in West Bengal?

A formidable spanner in the works of the Bharatiya Janata Party juggernaut in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee was left humbled by the massive inroads made by the BJP in the state this Lok Sabha election.

Lok Sabha polls: In West Bengal, 'gloves-off' campaigns by BJP, TMC give way to polling in crucial nine seats in seventh phase

An electorate of 1,49,63,064 will decide the fate of 111 candidates in West Bengal's nine seats, Kolkata North and Kolkata South, Dum Dum, Barasat, Basirhat, Jadavpur, Diamond Harbour, Jaynagar (SC) and Mathurapur (SC). Eight seats, barring Jadavpur, will witness a four-cornered contest between the Trinamool Congress, the BJP, the Congress and the Left Front.

Bengal Votes: Celeb culture key aspect of Mamata Banerjee's politics, WB CM tactfully uses it to draw voters and cull infighting

When Anik Dutta’s political satire Bhobishyoter Bhoot was yanked from theatres recently, none of the celebrity MPs and MLAs in Bengal came out in open support of their embattled colleague

Mon Jaane Na movie review: Shagufta Rafique’s derivative plot is made worse by poor execution

Among the bevy of actors who hem, haw and muhaha in Mon Jaane Na, perhaps the only semblance of sincerity can be found in Mimi Chakraborty, who despite everything else that is happening around her tries her best to make some sense.

Left Front ends Congress' wait in Bengal, announces first list of 25 candidates; reserves 17 for grand old party in Lok Sabha polls

The CPI(M)-led Left Front's initial list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls has 25 names, of which four are of women and five are of Muslim candidates. The party has entered into a seat-sharing deal with the Congress in West Bengal.