Suprotim Mukherjee

TMC stands by Moitra, gives her key party post

November 14, 2023

Beleaguered Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, whose expulsion from the Lok Sabha has been recommended by the Ethics Committee for allegedly accepting bribes to ask questions, has finally received unequivocal support from her party. The Trinamool Congress on Monday announced the appointment of Moitra as its Nadia district president which...

Unethical Ethics Panel making me a heroine: Mahua Moitra

November 11, 2023

Mahua Moitra, the embattled Trinamool Congress MP from Krishnanagar in West Bengal, is contemplating taking the legal route to challenge her impending expulsion from the Lok Sabha. Speaking to The Daily Guardian from her constituency where she is spending her Kali Puja and Deepawali, she said: “Let them expel me...

ED SUMMONS ABHISHEK BANERJEE AGAIN IN SCHOOL JOBS SCAM CASE

November 9, 2023

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress number two and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew, for a fresh round of questioning on Thursday in connection with the school jobs for cash scam case in which former Education Minister Partha Chatterjee has spent more than 16...

BJP infighting takes ugly turn in Bengal

November 9, 2023

Barely months before the crucial 2024 Lok Sabha elections, infighting within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in West Bengal took an ugly turn on Wednesday when alleged supporters of the state president Sukanta Majumdar and state organising secretary Amitava Chakraborty broke the stage from which the party’s national secretary Anupam...

Bihar fodder scam accused also active in Bengal ration scam: ED

November 9, 2023

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) probing the West Bengal ration scam has found that the alleged mastermind and prime accused in Bihar’s fodder scam case three decades back who had admitted giving bribes to the then Bihar Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav, have links with the ration corruption scam in West...

Trinamool demands probe into ‘abnormal’ INCREASE IN ASSETS of BJP leaders

November 7, 2023

On the backfoot after the arrest of two Trinamool Congress ministers, two MLAs and numerous leaders for alleged involvement with different scams, West Bengal’s ruling party has decided to highlight the “enormous increase” in the assets of BJP leaders at the central and state levels and demanded that the central...

Kolkata Police asks BCCI for ticket sale details in black-marketing probe

November 7, 2023

The Kolkata Police has asked the Board for Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) to furnish information on ticket sales of Sunday’s India-South Africa World Cup match which saw agitations and allegations of black marketing of tickets. Kolkata Police issued a notice to BCCI president Roger Binny seeking information on...

Cricket fans battle online frauds for World Cup tickets

November 3, 2023

As the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata gears up to host the blockbuster India-South Africa match on Sunday, which also is Virat Kohli’s birthday, cricket fans are desperately searching for elusive World Cup tickets, and frauds and black-marketeers are having a field day. Social media sites are awash with posts...

Mamata stands by Kejriwal, says BJP trying to ‘silence’ Opposition voices

November 2, 2023

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee—whose Government has been buffeted by a series of corruption scandals surrounding people close to her—came out in full support of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday, a day before the Delhi CM faces grilling by the Enforcement Directorate in a liquor scam case....

TMC fully involved in corruption: Bengal BJP

October 30, 2023

The BJP on Sunday used the platform of commemoration of the Amrit Kalash Yatra to lambast the Trinamool Congress for the endemic corruption in West Bengal which has led to the arrest of two Ministers in connection with various scams in the state. Leader after leader of the BJP took...

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