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  • ‘We Too Agree…’: TMC’s Kunal Ghosh Backs Jawhar Sircar’s Sentiments On Resignation Over Kolkata Rape-Murder |

    Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Jawhar Sircar on Sunday sparked a debate with his letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, announcing his decision to resign from the Rajya Sabha. Sircar’s resignation comes in the aftermath of the shocking rape and murder of a Kolkata doctor, a tragedy that has shaken the state. In response, fellow TMC leader Kunal Ghosh expressed his agreement with a significant part of Sircar’s letter. 

    “We have learned that Jawhar Sircar has made his decision. He was one of the finest bureaucrats in the country and a standout from West Bengal. This is his personal choice, decision, and letter, and he has every right to take such a step. We simply want to express that we, too, agree with the essence of his letter and the questions it raises.” Ghosh told reporters in Kolkata. 

    #WATCH | Kolkata: On TMC Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar quitting from his post, TMC leader Kunal Ghosh says, “Jawahar Sarkar is a respected person… He is one of the best bureaucrats in the country. This is his personal decision, his personal letter, I cannot comment on it. He has… pic.twitter.com/evGwLxcHrM
    — ANI (@ANI) September 8, 2024

    Earlier in the day, Jawhar Sircar, in a letter to TMC chief Mamata Banerjee, voiced his disappointment with the state government’s handling of corruption following the scandal involving the former education minister. 

    He highlighted that the incident at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a 31-year-old trainee doctor was allegedly raped and murdered, was the tipping point of his decision. 

    I am quitting as MP primarily because of WB government’s faulty handling of the most spontaneous public movement following the terrible rape-murder case at RG Kar Hospital.
    Quitting politics— to be with the people in their struggle for justice.
    My commitment to values unchanged pic.twitter.com/V98R06ziny
    — Jawhar Sircar (@jawharsircar) September 8, 2024

    Jawhar Sircar expressed disappointment, stating that despite his initial hopes for significant reforms through Mamata Banerjee’s anti-corruption campaign, little progress had been made.

  • Six MPs, 13 MLAs from BJP able to sign up for us, we planted them as moles, says TMC

    Via Categorical Information Provider

    KOLKATA: An afternoon after a BJP MLA joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Bengal’s ruling birthday party claimed that many from the saffron camp’s MPs and MLAs are lining up for leaping send. The TMC additionally claimed to have planted the yet-to-be-defected BJP legislators and MPs as moles within the saffron camp.

    “No less than six MPs and 13 MLAs are able to sign up for the TMC. Birthday party supremo Mamata Banerjee and nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee will take the overall name. A lot of them already met Abhishek at his Camac Side road place of job and the executive minister throughout her district consult with,” mentioned TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.

    Ghosh additionally made it transparent that the birthday party is in common contact with the BJP’s elected representatives prepared to return to the fold of the ruling birthday party.

    “We informed them to be in their very own birthday party, attend all of the conferences chaired through their management and knowledgeable us concerning the mins of the discussions,’’ he mentioned.

    Elaborating on what’s prompting the TMC top command to induct the turncoats, Ghosh mentioned the birthday party is discussing the problem with the native management from the place the BJP MPs and MLAs had been elected.

    “We wish to perceive the heartbeat of the native management and their response if the BJP turncoats are given get entry to to our birthday party. We will be able to tell the executive minister about our findings and she is going to take the overall resolution,’’ mentioned Ghosh.    

    Inflicting a jolt to BJP’s north Bengal stronghold, Suman Kanjilal, an MLA from Alipurduar of the saffron camp on Sunday defected to the Trinamool Congress. With the defection of Kanjilal, BJP’s energy within the Meeting has come right down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs joined the ruling TMC previous.

    Two MPs, who contested within the 2021 Meeting elections and gained, determined to serve as because the representatives within the decrease area of the Parliament.  

    Ghosh, then again, refused to touch upon how lots of the six MPs and 13 MLAs are from BJP’s north Bengal fortress.

    BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar described Ghosh’s declare as an effort to divert other people’s consideration from the continued factor of corruption through TMC functionaries. “Although I settle for that 13 corrupt MLAs will sign up for the TMC, will they have the ability to steer clear of lawful motion through legislation implementing businesses?’’ he requested.  

    KOLKATA: An afternoon after a BJP MLA joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Bengal’s ruling birthday party claimed that many from the saffron camp’s MPs and MLAs are lining up for leaping send. The TMC additionally claimed to have planted the yet-to-be-defected BJP legislators and MPs as moles within the saffron camp.

    “No less than six MPs and 13 MLAs are able to sign up for the TMC. Birthday party supremo Mamata Banerjee and nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee will take the overall name. A lot of them already met Abhishek at his Camac Side road place of job and the executive minister throughout her district consult with,” mentioned TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.

    Ghosh additionally made it transparent that the birthday party is in common contact with the BJP’s elected representatives prepared to return to the fold of the ruling birthday party.

    “We informed them to be in their very own birthday party, attend all of the conferences chaired through their management and knowledgeable us concerning the mins of the discussions,’’ he mentioned.

    Elaborating on what’s prompting the TMC top command to induct the turncoats, Ghosh mentioned the birthday party is discussing the problem with the native management from the place the BJP MPs and MLAs had been elected.

    “We wish to perceive the heartbeat of the native management and their response if the BJP turncoats are given get entry to to our birthday party. We will be able to tell the executive minister about our findings and she is going to take the overall resolution,’’ mentioned Ghosh.    

    Inflicting a jolt to BJP’s north Bengal stronghold, Suman Kanjilal, an MLA from Alipurduar of the saffron camp on Sunday defected to the Trinamool Congress. With the defection of Kanjilal, BJP’s energy within the Meeting has come right down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs joined the ruling TMC previous.

    Two MPs, who contested within the 2021 Meeting elections and gained, determined to serve as because the representatives within the decrease area of the Parliament.  

    Ghosh, then again, refused to touch upon how lots of the six MPs and 13 MLAs are from BJP’s north Bengal fortress.

    BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar described Ghosh’s declare as an effort to divert other people’s consideration from the continued factor of corruption through TMC functionaries. “Although I settle for that 13 corrupt MLAs will sign up for the TMC, will they have the ability to steer clear of lawful motion through legislation implementing businesses?’’ he requested.  

  • BJP looking to affect CBI probe into Birbhum killings: TMC

    The BJP has forgotten the killings in Gujarat years again. It’s now losing crocodile tears for the Bogtui incident, through which steered motion has already been taken, claimed TMC spokesperson.

  • BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari desires to go back to our birthday party: Trinamool Congress spokesman Kunal Ghosh

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Wednesday claimed that Chief of the Opposition in West Bengal meeting, Suvendu Adhikari of the BJP, is raring to go back to the TMC, discovering himself suffocated within the saffron birthday party.

    Then again, the TMC won’t take him again as a result of his “abusive feedback” in opposition to state Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee after becoming a member of the BJP, Ghosh informed journalists.

    In reaction, Adhikari who had surrender the TMC and joined the BJP in December 2020 forward of the meeting election stated that he does now not respond to remarks of individuals who had been accused in graft instances.

    Describing Sabyasachi Datta, a TMC candidate within the Bidhannagar Municipal Company election, as a ‘chameleon’, Adhikari not too long ago stated it used to be a mistake at the a part of the BJP to offer him price ticket for the meeting polls.

    Dutta surrender the TMC in 2019, unsuccessfully contested as a BJP candidate within the 2021 meeting polls and returned to his former birthday party later.

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    Requested to touch upon Adhikari’s grievance of Dutta, Ghosh stated, “Suvendu is affected by super psychological melancholy as his goals at the back of becoming a member of the BJP were beaten. We have now data that he desires to come back again to the TMC at the side of two-three different leaders he had taken alongside “However our doorways aren’t open for individuals like Suvendu.”

    Ghosh additionally claimed that Adhikari had left the TMC to keep away from raids by way of central making an investment companies as his identify had surfaced in ponzi scams. Responding to Ghosh’s claims, Adhikari stated, “I do not respond to feedback by way of other people accused in graft instances and imprisoned previously.”

    Ghosh, a journalist-turned-TMC chief, used to be arrested within the Saradha chit fund rip-off in 2013 and were imprisoned. He were given bail in 2016 and used to be appointed the state birthday party spokesperson in 2020.