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8Dec

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Mamata bid to project self as INDIA chief ‘mere posturing’: Congress | India News – Times of India

Mamata Banerjee (File photo) NEW DELHI: A day after West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee expressed her willingness to lead the INDIA bloc if asked to do so, Congress' silence was conspicuous as its top brass chose to steer clear of making any official statement on her remarks. However, party sources said Congress veterans see no reason to respond to what they see as "mere posturing" by Banerjee to project herself as a national leader amid challenges faced by her within her own party, the All India Trinamool Congress, on her home turf.Her remarks were seen as her way of sending out a message to her own party and impressing upon them that she wields influence beyond Bengal. The political grapevine is abuzz that there are differences brewing between the CM and her nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee.Al...

6Dec

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2,200 companies moved out of Bengal in 5 years, Rajya Sabha told | India News – Times of India

Till the 1970s, Bengal ranked second after Maharashtra in terms of number of registered companies, but had slipped to the eighth spot by 2021 NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: More than 2,200 companies moved their registered offices out of West Bengal in past five years, with at least 39 of them being listed entities, junior minister for corporate affairs Harsh Malhotra told Parliament.Malhotra's reply, in response to a set of questions from BJP MP Samik Bhattacharya in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, prompted Trinamool Congress to term the MP's questions as "biased and loaded", and accuse BJP of being "totally anti-Bengal"."The question itself was biased and loaded. BJP's only aim was to show Bengal in a poor light. The party has always done this. It gets some sort of perverse pleasure from this," TMC Rajya S...

5Dec

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Trinamool holds ground amid chaos

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks in the State Assembly in Kolkata on December 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: PTI Discontent and anger against the government do not necessarily result in the electorate voting against the ruling party. This has become quite evident over the past few years in West Bengal politics, the latest example being the recently concluded Assembly bypolls.Despite the protests over the rape and murder of a doctor at R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital, the ruling Trinamool Congress won bypolls in all six Assembly seats without much resistance from the Opposition parties.The ruling party not only retained five seats it had won in 2021 but also wrested Madarihat in north Bengal, c...