Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Sunday criticised the central government, saying it could not shirk responsibility for its failure to check the escalating prices of essential commodities.
‘The central government cannot shirk responsibility for its failure to control the price rise of essentials. We want the central government to convene an all-party meeting to regularise the prices,’ [...]
Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday lashed out at the union home ministry, saying it lacked seriousness in tackling the Maoist menace in West Bengal. She also accused the central government of giving ‘oxygen’ to the state’s ruling communists by deploying joint security forces in Lalgarh.
A day after the Maoists shot dead [...]
Kolkata, Dec 21 (IANS) The year 2009 did not turn out well for the state’s ruling Left Front as the general elections dealt it a big blow. Lalgarh, which became a battleground for Maoists and the security forces, only added to the government’s woes.
Here are 10 landmark events from West Bengal in 2009:
1. The April-May [...]
New Delhi/Hyderabad, Dec 15 (IANS) The war within the Congress party over the Telangana issue intensified Tuesday as unrest raged in Andhra Pradesh against the proposed division of the state. Under attack from its allies, the ruling party appealed for peace.
At a 90-minute meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA), the Congress came [...]
Kolkata, Dec 7 (IANS) Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Monday said her party would jointly fight with the Congress against the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in West Bengal.
‘We welcome union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s call to unitedly fight against the CPI-M in the state. The Trinamool Congress and Congress will take [...]
Kolkata, Nov 30 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Monday said the central government’s decision to send an expert team to West Bengal to asses the law and order situation was tantamount to warning the state government under Article 355.
‘The decision to send a central team to assess the situation in West Bengal is an [...]
New Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) Home Minister P. Chidambaram can be at his expansive best when he is entertaining. But then his revelations are strictly off the record – if he is donning a jacket and pant and not his trademark veshti and shirt!
At a high tea organised for scribes on the home beat as [...]
New Delhi, Nov 20 (IANS) Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar met Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee here Friday to convey her opposition to certain provisions of the land acquisition bill that is to be introduced in the winter session of parliament.
The government has included the Land Acquisition (Amendment) Bill and Resettlement [...]
Kolkata, Nov 17 (IANS) Noted Bengali singer Kabir Suman, who is a Trinamool Congress MP, Tuesday said that he wanted to resign from the Lok Sabha.
‘I would like to submit my resignation to the honourable Speaker of the Lok Sabha. I shall also tell Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about my decision. I don’t want [...]
New Delhi, Nov 16 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress Monday rejected reports that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is unhappy with party leader and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee and had asked her for a status report on the railways in a fortnight.
‘There is no iota of truth in it,’ said Trinamool Congress leader and MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, [...]
New Delhi, Nov 15 (IANS) Austerity is not a new mantra for Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, famous for her cotton jhola, crumpled cotton saris and trademark hawai chappals. But there is more to it than meets the eye.
Expounding on the virtues of minimalism, Mamata pointed out recently that it was the [...]
Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee now wants to build a rail coach factory jointly with the West Bengal government on the Singur plot abandoned by Tata Motors, but after returning the 400 acres to ‘unwilling’ farmers.
‘I feel a national project should come up on that land. If necessary, we can go [...]
Kolkata, Nov 13 (IANS) A day after state-run Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) officials visited the abandoned Tata Motors land in West Bengal’s Singur, Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee expressed her eagerness Friday to build a coach factory on the plot.
‘I feel a national project should come up on that piece of [...]
New Delhi, Nov 12(ANI): Union Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday demanded imposition of President’s rule in West Bengal under article 356 of the constitution.
Addressing the All Party meeting in the national capital, Mamata said: “More [...]
Kolkata, Nov 11 (IANS) The operation to flush out Maoists from Lalgarh in West Bengal would continue till the situation was ‘completely under control’, senior Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee said Wednesday, notwithstanding ally Trinamool Congress’ demand that it be called off immediately.
Asserting that the security operation to flush out the extreme Left wing rebels from [...]
Kolkata, Nov 10 (IANS) A jubilant Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Tuesday said the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front had been swept away by a ‘democratic tsunami’ in the West Bengal assembly by-polls and reiterated her demand for the resignation of the Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee ministry.
The CPI-M, on the other hand, conceded that the [...]
Kolkata, Nov.9 (ANI): Trinamool Congress chief and Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that her party did not support Maoist violence and questioned the source of ammunition of CPI (Marixst) cadres in West Bengal.
Addressing a public rally in the Kolkata, [...]
Kolkata, Nov 9 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Monday threatened to file a defamation case against West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for alleging that her partymen were aiding the Maoists in killing Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) activists.
.’We will look for legal redressal. In the past whenever we have given legal notice to [...]
Arambagh (West Bengal), Nov 4 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday asked her party workers to ‘resist’ terror perpetrated by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) cadres in this belt, and warned West Bengal’s ruling communists that they were pushing the state towards president’s rule by their violent actions.
Speaking at a rally in this Hooghly [...]
Kolkata, Nov 1(ANI): Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Sunday retorted to various allegations by West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacherjee and accused him of having links with the Maoists. ddressing a press conference in Kolkata, Mamata said: “I think that the Marxists and the Maoists are both sides of the same coin. They are [...]
Srinagar, Oct 29 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that Maoist violence needed to be dealt with ‘in a holistic way’, with a combination of security measures and administrative steps to end the alienation of the tribal people.
‘We have to deal with it in a holistic way. Every state has to maintain and enforce [...]
New Delhi, Oct 27 (IANS) Trinamool Congress chief and Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday demanded that the central government launch an army operation in Maoist-affected Lalgarh region of West Bengal and if required impose president’s rule in the state.
‘We want an army operation. The joint operation (by West Bengal and central forces) is not successful,’ [...]
New Delhi, Oct 27(ANI): Families of the two cops’ who were kidnapped by Maoists on July 30 in Dharampur in Lalgarh District and Union Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee met Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram on Tuesday.
Addressing the media after the meeting, [...]
New Delhi, Oct.27 (ANI): Families of the two cops’ who were kidnapped by Maoists on July 30 as they stepped out of their security camp in Dharampur in Lalgarh District have arrived in the national capital to meet with Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram.
Sources said that [...]
New Delhi/Kolkata, Oct. 27 (ANI): Aiming to derive the maximum political capital from the West Bengal Government’s inability to counter the Naxal menace effectively, Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has decided to bring relatives of two policemen kidnapped by Maoists in West Bengal’s Lalgarh District to Delhi on Tuesday for a meeting [...]
Kolkata, Oct 26 (IANS) Suspected Maoist guerrillas shot dead a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader in West Bengal’s violence-hit West Midnapore district Monday afternoon, police said.
‘Pratap Nayak was shot dead by a group of motorcycle-borne unidentified miscreants – suspected to be Maoists – near Binpur bazaar when he was returning home in the afternoon,’ [...]
Kolkata, Oct 16 (IANS) Condemning ‘unabated violence’ allegedly triggered by the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Friday demanded the arrest of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee for ‘masterminding’ atrocities in the state.
Banerjee’s comments came as four of her party legislators, headed by leader of opposition Partha [...]
Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee Wednesday alleged there was a conspiracy to kill her, saying a car with a ‘press’ sticker on it tried to hit her vehicle, but police said it was only a case of some TV journalists seeking to talk to her.
The Trinamool Congress chief alleged that the car [...]
Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Wednesday demanded withdrawal of central forces from West Bengal’s troubled Lalgarh region.
‘I want the central forces to be withdrawn from Lalgarh as the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front government in the state is torturing innocent villagers in a name of (anti-) [...]
Kolkata, Oct 14 (IANS) Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee has alleged a conspiracy to kill her, claiming that a car with a press sticker on it tried to hit her vehicle in Kolkata’s satellite township of Salt Lake in the early hours of Wednesday.
The Trinamool Congress chief said the car with three people, including two with [...]
