Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Trinamool Congress initially denied any connection with the sting operation, alleging it to be a product of political conspiracy and the video to be entirely forged. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] Trinamool party supremo and the Chief Minister of West Bengal- Mamata Banerjee alleged it to be a smear campaign by the opposition manifesting from vendetta-politics.
The All India Trinamool Congress (transl. All India Grassroots Congress ; abbr. AITC ) is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal . [ 19 ] It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction from the Indian National Congress and rapidly rose to prominence in the politics of West ...
On 5 January 2024, a team of Enforcement Directorate officers visited the village of Sandeshkhali in West Bengal, India, to interrogate a local Trinamool Congress leader, Sheikh Shahjahan, about his involvement with the corruption scandal of the politician Jyotipriya Mallick. Mallick, a former minister with the Trinamool Congress, pled guilty ...
Jiban Krishna Saha, is an Indian politician and a MLA from All India Trinamool Congress [1] [2] [3] elected from the Burwan constituency in the 2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election. On 17th April, 2023 he was arrested by the CBI at 5 am in connection with alleged State School Service Commission (SSC) recruitment scam.
[10] [11] Many prominent personalities were arrested for their alleged involvement in the scam including two Members of Parliament (MP) - Kunal Ghosh and Srinjoy Bose from the Trinamool Congress, former West Bengal Director General of Police Rajat Majumdar, a top football club official Debabrata Sarkar, Sports and Transport minister in the ...
He had urged the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to interrogate Banerjee in connection with the scam and called her the ‘biggest beneficiary’ of the Saradha group's media operations. Ghosh has reportedly returned ₹ 2.67 crores that he earned from Saradha Group as salary and for advertisements paid to him by Saradha Group while he ...
Politics in West Bengal is dominated by the following major political parties: the All India Trinamool Congress, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Bharatiya Janata Party, the National People's Party and the Indian National Congress. For many decades, the state underwent gruesome and terrible political violence. [1]
O'Brien joined the Trinamool Congress in 2004, when the party was still in opposition in West Bengal. [39] He later wrote that he was drawn to the charisma and personality of the Trinamool Congress leader (now chief minister of Bengal) Mamata Banerjee, and felt she was the only one who could defeat the then CPI(M)-led government in the state ...