She met the Trinamul Congress chairperson and chief minister Mamata Banerjee at the state Legislative Assembly on Thursday and submitted her resignation letter. The resignation has not yet been accepted, it’s learnt.
Firhad Hakim, mayor, ministers Aroop Biswas and Indranil Sen and Debashis Kumar, member, mayor-in-council parks and squares will be present at meeting
West Bengal minister of state for finance (independent charge) Chandrima Bhattacharya is all set to table the state budget for the financial year 2023-24 in the assembly on February 15.
International Matua Parishad, the global association of Matua community, has given an ultimatum and deadline to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to apologise for her recent mispronunciation of the names of the two spiritual leaders of the community.
Ms Banerjee also ensured families of the victims, who have lost their lives, after investigation guilty will be punished.
She has, in one fell swoop, abolished all party posts ~ save that of chairperson which she occupies ~ and set up a national working committee to oversee party affairs till further notice. The message is clear: There is one boss in the Trinamool Congress. But given the crafty political leader that she is, Ms Banerjee must also know she has only kicked the can further down the road.
Miss Banerjee will hold a meeting with members of the Tribal Development Advisory Council at Uttarkanya here tomorrow to make plans for the development of the Adivasi-dominated tea belt in North Bengal. She is then scheduled to leave for Cooch Behar, where she will pay tributes to Chila Roy, the warrior and army commander during the time of the Narayan of Koch dynasty, to mark his 512th birthday anniversary at Baneshwar in the district.
It is said that a section of party leaders under the leadership of Gautam Deb, the former minister for North Bengal Development and tourism, have worked hard to bag a majority of seats of the SMC this time around. Though a group of political analysts here predicts that the TMC will finally have the last laugh in Siliguri, CPI-M strongman Asok Bhattacharya, after reviewing the post-poll scenario, has said that the Left would form an alliance with the Congress to form the SMC board.
Banerjee today has reportedly conveyed her decision to hold a crucial meeting at her residence tomorrow which party insiders feel is to put an end to the intraparty feuds that are damaging the party’s reputation and sending a wrong message to the Opposition at a time when TMC is realising its dreams to make a political imprint on a national level.
The problem started when some senior party leaders including Party Secretary General Partha Chatterjee and All-India vice President Subrata Bakshi started complaining about their interference into the party's internal decisions. Some leaders even threatened to stop working unless I-PAC stopped interference into the party' internal decisions and the government's work as well.
