The all-party parliamentary team, of which Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress MP and party's national general secretary is a member, today met representatives of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) — the People's Justice Party of Malaysia.
The meeting of the internal disciplinary committee of Trinamul Congress, which was scheduled for Tuesday to decide on MLAs not attending Assembly sessions, has been postponed for an indefinite period amid internal rift in the party.
More than 11,000 people visited the Sebaashray camps at Satgachia in South 24-Parganas today.
The six-year-old granddaughter of the Trinamul Congress MLA Supti Pandey from Maniktala Assembly constituency in the city had HMPV (human metapneumovirus) infection a couple of weeks ago.
The Sebaashray camps, an initiative of Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamul Congress Diamond Harbour MP and party's national general secretary has received overwhelming response.
It will be a priority of sorts for Banerjee to accommodate some of the winners of her party from these districts who reduced the Congress and CPI-M presence in these areas to a zilch.
Amidst the process of setting aside the doubts spread by ruling party baiters from the saffron camp emerged the clear message that it would be TMC chief Mamata Banerjee who would lead a newly formed Opposition cohort against the Prime Minister Narenda Modi-led BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, whose leaders ironically had claimed not so long ago they would win as many seats as they ended up losing today, was relegated to a distant second place, but will be the main Opposition in the state as this election saw the eclipse of both the Congress and the Left parties.
On the other hand, TMC candidate of Habibpur, Pradip Baskey, allegedly visited booths with party symbols in his dresses and engaged himself in "heated discussions" with the central forces in some of the booths over this.
In the minority-dominated districts of Murshidabad and Malda in North Bengal, the Congress too is a major contender for Muslim votes.
