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West Bengal: After poll defeat, TMC faces rebellion, resignations

West Bengal: After poll defeat, TMC faces rebellion, resignations

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Since the Trinamool Congress (TMC) experienced a landslide defeat in the West Bengal State Assembly elections in 2026, the party led by Mamata Banerjee has been falling like a house built on sand. TMC, once the formidable force that ended three decades of Left Front rule in West Bengal, today resembles the Biblical parable of a house built on sand that collapses when storms arrive.  Following the state election defeat, its organisational base — weakened by corruption, factionalism and overreliance on professional consultants — is being battered by storms of scandal and dissent, according to IANS.  Chaos within the party escalates About five days after a breakaway faction comprising 58 of the Trinamool’s 80 elected MLAs laid claim to recognition as the “original party” in the West Bengal Assembly, 20 of its 28 Lok Sabha MPs have reportedly made a similar request to the office of the Lok Sabha Speaker. One of West Bengal’s 42 Lok Sabha seats, Basirhat, remains vacant following the death of the sitting Trinamool MP. Sukhendu Sekhar Roy resigns from the …

Mamata lashes out at opposition in Sandeshkhali – India TV

Mamata lashes out at opposition in Sandeshkhali – India TV

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Image Source : PTI Mamata Banerjee Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday visited Sandeshkhali to attend a program. Notably, this is the first time CM Mamata Banerjee visited Sandeshkhali after violent protests in the area. While addressing the program in Sandeshkhali, Mamata Banerjee targeted BJP and CPIM. “The BJP has a lot of money, don’t money from the BJP! This money is not the money of justice, CPM is a party of hypocrites,” she said. Don’t give money to anyone for govt projects: Mamata While addressing the program, Mamata Banerjee said that this service is for the government and don’t give money to anyone for any government project. “This money is of the government, this money is yours. So do not give money to anyone for government projects,” she said. Mamata added that if someone calls, do not go and if a government project comes on “Duare Sarkar”, then talk about the project at home. On the demand for a bridge on the Vidyadhari river, Mamata Banerjee said that this work will …

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s first visit to Sandeshkhali today after protests | Latest News India

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s first visit to Sandeshkhali today after protests | Latest News India

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West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will visit Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district on Monday, December 30, to chair a public distribution programme. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addresses a press conference, at Nabanna in Kolkata on Thursday. (ANI Photo) This will mark her first visit to the island, situated on the Sundarbans border, since widespread protests earlier this year over alleged land-grabbing and sexual harassment by local TMC leaders. Banerjee had said on Thursday that she would visit Sandeshkhali on December 30 to chair a public distribution programme. She mentioned that people had asked her before the elections if she would visit Sandeshkhali, to which she had replied that she would go later. The chief minister spoke to reporters at the state secretariat Nabanna. “We have completed several pending programmes under ‘Lakshmir Bhandar’, ‘Banglar Bari’ and other schemes. Around 20,000 beneficiaries of the area will be benefitted from various state-run schemes. I hope to hand over certificates of various schemes to around 100 people from the stage,” the …

Mamata Banerjee In Sandeshkhali Today, First Visit Since Controversy

Mamata Banerjee In Sandeshkhali Today, First Visit Since Controversy

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Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will visit the riverine island of Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district today– a first since the sexual harassment controversy broke out ahead of the Lok Sabha election. But the Leader of Opposition, BJP’s  Suvendu Adhikari will not be far behind. Mr Adhikari has announced that he would hold a ‘Jana Sanjog Yatra’ in the area the day after the Chief Minister’s visit.  The Chief Minister will be heading for Sandeshkhali early today to chair a public distribution programme.  The obscure island in West Bengal had hit the headlines earlier this year, before the Lok Sabha elections. Its trigger was the protest by the locals against alleged incidents of sexual assault and land grabbing. They blamed the local Trinamool strongman Sheikh Shahjahan — who has since been suspended by the party — and his two aides, Shibu Prasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar.  The Trinamool later held a press conference on a series sting operations in which a video surfaced on social media. It showed a former BJP leader …

Sandeshkhali: Shahjahan Sheikh charged with attempt to murder by CBI

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Suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh, his brother and five others have been charged with criminal conspiracy and attempt to murder by the CBI in connection with a mob attack on an Enforcement Directorate team in Sandeshkhali on January 5, reported PTI citiing officials on Tuesday. The agency`s first charge sheet in the case was filed on Monday before a Basirhat special court, they said. The ED team was attacked by a 1,000-strong mob when it went to raid Sheikh`s house in connection with the multi-crore ration distribution scam in West Bengal. It had also gone to arrest Sheikh because of his alleged close links with arrested former state food minister Jyoti Priya Mallick, under the scanner in the scam, they said. The charge sheet is against seven people, including Sheikh, his brother Alomgir and associates Jiauddin Mollah, Mafujar Mollah, and Didarbaksh Mollah, they said. The CBI has invoked Indian Penal Code Sections 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and 307 (attempt to murder) on the accused besides rioting and unlawful assembly among a number of other charges, reported …

West Bengal | Sandeshkhali TMC worker detained for ‘molesting’ minor girl

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A TMC worker has been detained for allegedly molesting a minor girl in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali area, police said. According to the complaint lodged by the girl’s mother, the accused “somehow” entered their house on Friday night and molested the minor. The riverine Sandeshkhali area — situated on the borders of the Sundarbans, about 100 km from Kolkata — had been on the boil in February with protests over allegations of sexual abuse and land grab against now-arrested TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh and his supporters. The girl, a Class-8 student, managed to escape and started shouting for help as family members and neighbours came out, police said, quoting the complaint. An officer of Basirhat Police District said the accused, around 20-years-old, is being questioned. A medical test has been conducted on the girl, he said, adding that its report is awaited. Source link

The Hindu Morning Digest, May 16, 2024

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Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal paying respect at the Golden Temple in Amritsar on May 16, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Arvind Kejriwal asked for ₹100 crore as kickbacks, Enforcement Directorate tells Supreme Court The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) told the Supreme Court on May 16 that a complaint against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is in the pipeline and there is direct evidence of its national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal “demanding” ₹100 crore as kickbacks in the liquor policy case. Swati Maliwal assault case: Arvind Kejriwal’s aide Bibhav Kumar booked The Delhi police on Thursday filed an FIR against Bibhav Kumar, the personal assistant of AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Mr. Kumar has been booked under IPC sections pertaining to assault, criminal intimidation, and outraging a woman’s modesty, based on a statement by Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Rajya Sabha member and former Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal. Sandeshkhali on the boil again over allegations of a woman’s abduction Two weeks before Sandeshkhali goes …

‘Mamata should be ashamed’: Amit Shah jabs Bengal CM on Sandeshkhali | Latest News India

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Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday hit out at Mamata Banerjee over her allegations dubbing Sandeshkhali incident a ‘conspiracy’ by Bharatiya Janata Party. “Mamata Banerjee has developed a Modus Operandi. First commit atrocities, once people talk about this then hide it and conduct atrocities again. Sandeshkhali is a classic example of this. Under a woman Chief Minister’s nose, according to religion, atrocities are committed against women…She is quiet?” Shah told news agency ANI in an interview. “High Court has to intervene, still no investigation (by West Bengal Police) and then the case has to go to CBI…she should be ashamed,” the minister added. Sandeshkhali, a village in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas, was at the centre of a political storm after several women accused local Trinamool Congress strongman Sheikh Shahjahan of land grabbing and sexual assault. Shahjahan was suspended from the TMC and later arrested. ALSO READ: Why is Sandeshkhali, a riverine island in WB, on the boil again? Earlier this month, the TMC released a video alleging that leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari …

SC agrees to hear plea for SIT probe to evaluate Sandeshkhali ‘sting video’ | Latest News India

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court was on Tuesday requested to urgently hear a plea calling for the formation of a special investigation team (SIT) to evaluate the authenticity of a sting operation video concerning allegations of rape and sexual assault in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali. Senior advocate Meneka Guruswamy mentioned the plea before a bench of justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta(ANI) The video allegedly reveals that accusations against the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and main accused in the case, Shahjahan Sheikh, were fabricated, and implicates BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari for orchestrating a plot to tarnish the reputation of TMC leaders. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! Senior advocate Meneka Guruswamy mentioned the plea before a bench of justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta, which agreed to consider it for immediate listing. The plea, filed by a woman from the state, seeks to intervene in an ongoing petition filed by the West Bengal government against a Calcutta high court order for a …

BJP letter to CBI alleges violence, intimidation by TMC in Sandeshkhali | Kolkata News

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Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and advocate Priyanka Tibrewal in a letter to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has alleged, “acts of violence, intimidation by the police and local politicians against victims of sexual violence in Sandeshkhali area.” “Local administration of Sandeshkhali including the District Magistrate and the Superintendent of Police, North 24 Parganas, failed and neglected to install CCTV cameras in the sensitive areas of Sandeshkhali, as recorded by the order… passed by the Hon’ble High Court,” Tibrewal wrote in her letter. Tibrewal, the advocate for some of the alleged victims, had last month demanded in the High Court that action be taken against complicit officials and had also prayed for the transfer of investigation to the CBI. Alleging that the said ‘victims of sexual violence are totally helpless’, the counsel in her letter, stated: “The undersigned states that pursuant to a separate email-ID being created by the CBI for the purpose of receiving complaints against the acts of violence… several victims and affected persons have registered complaints on the said email. However, …