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More people will come from BJP: Mamata after Mukul Roy re-joins TMC

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday welcomed back her former close aide Mukul Roy into the party fold from the BJP and claimed that more leaders from the BJP will come back

BJP leader Mukul Roy leaves for TMC Bhavan, set to return to Mamata's party

Roy is the BJP national vice president

Mamata promises to rally opposition-ruled states behind agitating farmers

The move that may take her political battle against the BJP into the Hindi heartland

Mamata Banerjee meets farmer leaders, assures support to protests

At a meeting with the farmer leaders here during the day, the TMC chief said that there should be a platform where states could converse on policy issues

Delayed decision cost many lives: Mamata on PM's vaccine announcement

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Monday that the decision on vaccinating all above the age of 18 for free should have been taken long back and the delay has cost many lives. Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement of free vaccination for all adults, Banerjee said that it took him four months to listen to the pleas of the states. "Back in Feb '21 & multiple times thereafter, I'd written to the PM stating our long standing demand to provide vaccines to ALL for FREE. Took him 4 months but after much pressure, he has FINALLY listened to us & implemented what we've been asking all this while," she tweeted. "The well-being of the people of India should've been prioritized since the very start of this pandemic. Unfortunately, this delayed decision by PM has already cost many lives. Hoping for a better managed #VaccinationDrive this time that focuses on people & not propaganda!," she added. Modi announced that the central government ..

Incidents of violence will put humanity to shame: Governor tells Mamata

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar slammed Mamata Banerjee-led state government over the issue of alleged post-poll violence

MP Abhishek Banerjee appointed general secretary of TMC: Partha Chatterjee

Abhishek, nephew of the party supremo Mamata Banerjee, will be replacing Subrata Bakshi as the national general secretary

West Bengal issuing vaccination certificate to 18-44 with Mamata photo

The West Bengal government is issuing certificates of COVID-19 vaccination to the people in the age group of 18-44 sponsored by the state with the photograph of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

Meet Alapan Bandyopadhyay, a 'good boy' in the Centre's bad books

Bandyopadhyay was recently in the midst of a political storm. At the heart of the controversy is a review meeting by PM Modi for which Bandyopadhyay and CM Mamata Banerjee arrived late

TMC will likely leave decision on 'Ghar Wapsi' to Mamata Banerjee

Trinamool Congress leadership is yet to take a call on ghar wapsi (return home) by former TMC leaders who had joined the BJP ahead of the recently concluded assembly elections which the Mamata Banerjee-led party swept.

Alapan Bandyopadhyay chapter is over, says Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

Bandyopadhyay has already started working as the chief adviser and was present at Wednesday's meeting of the state Irrigation department presided over by Banerjee.

Centre rubbishes Mamata's charges, defends action on ex Bengal Chief Secy

The Central government defended its move to summon former West Bengal Chief Secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay and called its transfer order 'Constitutional'

Centre notice to former Bengal chief secy Bandyopadhyay illegal: TMC MP

TMC claimed that the show-cause notice sent to the state's just-retired chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay was an "illegal" move on the part of the Centre

Centre serves show cause notice to former Bengal Chief Secy under DM Act

In an escalating row, Alapan Bandyopadhyay had on Monday retired from bureaucracy and was appointed chief advisor to Bengal govt for three years

'Ego prevailed over public service': Dhankhar on Mamata skipping PM meet

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Tuesday stirred fresh controversy by saying "ego prevailed over public service" on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee skipping Prime Minister Narendra Modi's meeting to review post-cyclone damages on May 28. Dhankhar said the chief minister had called him before the meeting at Kalaikunda in Paschim Medinipur district and indicated that she won't attend it if Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari is present in it. "Constrained by false narrative to put record straight: On May 27 at 2316 hrs CM @MamataOfficial messaged 'may I talk? urgent'," Dhankhar tweeted. "Thereafter on phone indicated boycott by her & officials of PM Review Meet #CycloneYaas if LOP @SuvenduWB attends it. Ego prevailed over Public service," he said in another Twitter post. Besides Adhikary, Dhankhar and BJP MP Debosree Chaudhuri were present at the meeting. The chief minister said she skipped the meeting because "a BJP MLA has no locus to be present in a PM-CM

Cyclone Yaas: 221,000 hectares of crops damaged in Bengal, says Mamata

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said the state had incurred a total loss of more than Rs 20,000 crore due to Cyclone Yaas

With Covid situation improving, Mamata eases certain restrictions in Bengal

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said as the number of active Covid-19 cases had come down in the state, her government had allowed opening of retail shops, including bookstalls, from noon to 3 pm

Bengal chief secy retired, to act as chief advisor to CM: Mamata Banerjee

The Centre has asked him to join North Block on Tuesday but it cannot force an officer to join it without the permission of the state administration, Banerjee told a press conference

'Don't inflict suffering': Mamata writes to Modi on bureaucrat's transfer

Five quotes from the chief minister's letter addressing why she 'can't, won't' release civil servant.

Post-poll violence: Calcutta HC forms committee for victim rehabilitation

The Calcutta High Court on Monday formed a three-member Committee for rehabilitation of victims of post-poll violence after Assembly polls.