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  • Mamata Banerjee to fulfill CMs of non-BJP dominated states subsequent month to talk about danger to federalism

    Through Categorical Information Carrier

    KOLKATA: The second one assembly of Trinamool Congress’s newly constituted nationwide operating committee could be held in Delhi in presence of the birthday party’s chairperson Mamata Banerjee. The date of the assembly is predicted to be after March 10, after the announcement of Meeting election ends up in the 5 states.

    “Within the assembly, we might speak about our stance in nationwide politics relying on the result of the Meeting polls in 5 states. The manager minister herself will chair the assembly and provides us the longer term roadmap within the area of nationwide politics,’’ stated a senior TMC chief.

    The chief stated the Bengal leader minister and the nationwide operating committee might meet the heads of the non-BJP dominated states in March over the problem of the rustic’s federal construction and overstepping of constitutional rights by means of governors within the non-BJP states.

    Mamata not too long ago communicated with Tamil Nadu leader minister MK Stalin over the problem of constitutional overstepping and brazen misuse of energy by means of governors.

    On Friday, Mamata, within the first assembly of the nationwide operating committee at her Kalighat place of dwelling, reinstated her nephew because the birthday party’s nationwide normal secretary inducting 3 others as vice-president. Previous Mamata dissolved all posts of the birthday party within the national-level hierarchy.

    Former Union finance minister Yashwant Sinha, Subrata Bakshi, and Chandrima Bhattacharya had been decided on because the vice-president. ‘’Induction of 3 others within the newly created vice-president publish appears to be an try to clip Abhishek’s wings as the new construction within the birthday party instructed rising distance between him and the birthday party supremo,’’ stated every other TMC chief.

    Sinha, Bakshi, and Chandrima are believed to be amongst those that are from Mamata’s shut circle.

    Within the variety means of candidate lists for the approaching municipal elections in 107 civic our bodies scheduled to be hung on February 27, Mamata became down Abhishek’s concept of fielding new faces within the fray. Prashant Kishor’s crew IPAC, which was once employed on Abhishek’s advice, uploaded a candidate checklist within the birthday party social media platform with out Mamata’s approval and the birthday party needed to announce a contemporary checklist of applicants.    

    There was once a robust buzz doing the rounds that Abhishek expressed a need to step down as his previous publish within the hierarchy and Mamata was once in no temper to dissuade him.

  • 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.

    ALSO READ| Suvendu Adhikari’s brother Soumendu now not given BJP price ticket in West Bengal municipal ballot

    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.

  • Honeymoon over for TMC and Kishor in Bengal?

    By means of Categorical Information Carrier

    KOLKATA:  Trinamool Congress in West Bengal has initiated discussions to terminate its settlement with ballot strategist Prashant Kishor and his advocacy staff I-PAC following chaos amongst a bit of birthday celebration native leaders for being denied price ticket within the upcoming municipal elections. 

    The connection between the ruling birthday celebration and the election strategist, employed through the TMC in 2019 following birthday celebration’s debacle within the Lok Sabha polls, grew to become bitter after the applicants checklist for the civic elections was once out on Friday. When birthday celebration chief Partha Chatterjee was once pronouncing the checklist, any other candidate checklist was once uploaded within the birthday celebration’s social media platforms, which is alleged to be monitored through I-PAC since 2021 – with out Mamata Banerjee’s approval.

    “The birthday celebration has been discussing steps to terminate the settlement with I-PAC,” stated a TMC chief. The birthday celebration rubbished and disapproved the checklist on social media platform announcing there was once no signature of permitted leaders. Agitations around the state broke out after many discovered their names within the checklist at the social media however lacking from the checklist introduced through Chatterjee that have been despatched to birthday celebration districts presidents.

    ‘’We finalised the candidate checklist in keeping with the names advisable through our MLAs in addition to I-PAC. Many names advisable through Kishor’s staff have been axed from the general checklist licensed through the birthday celebration supremo. We have been shocked to look the checklist on social media platforms which was once no longer licensed through the CM,’’ stated the TMC chief.

    Importing of the disapproved checklist led to embarrassment for Mamata, stated a supply in TMC. ‘’The act was once a handiwork of Kishor’s staff which displays our birthday celebration’s social media platforms. I-PAC denied that they’d uploaded the checklist. However we all know what came about,’’ stated the supply.

    The TMC had began disapproving the ideas introduced through Kishor and his staff within the Kolkata Municipal Company (KMC) elections. Every other birthday celebration chief stated, “His staff advisable a number of new faces changing our sitting councillors within the KMC polls that have been grew to become down. We instructed him the TMC understands Bengal higher than them and Mamata Banerjee made up our minds to stay religion on her outdated squaddies within the civic polls,” stated the chief.

  • UP elections: Akhilesh and Mamta have an settlement, TMC is not going to contest the UP elections- Lalitesh Pati Tripathi

    Manish Singh Mirzapur: Within the upcoming UP elections, Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) is not going to contest, however Trinamool Congress will make each effort and marketing campaign for the grand alliance. TMC chief Lalitesh Pati Tripathi has shared this data by way of tweeting. Lalitesh’s tweet has put an finish to the entire speculations, during which it used to be being stated that TMC may even take part within the UP elections and Lalitesh himself will contest from Mirzapur’s Madihan seat.

    It used to be made up our minds on January 18 that TMC would now not contest the UP elections.
    Striking an finish to the entire speculations by way of tweeting on Saturday, Lalitesh wrote that within the assembly held between the SP and TMC on January 18, it used to be made up our minds that TMC is not going to contest the UP elections, however will make each effort and marketing campaign for the Grand Alliance.

    Quote from Kirmay Nanda’s tweet
    Now not simplest this, Lalitesh has additionally referred to the observation of SP State Vice President Kirmay Nanda after the assembly on January 18, during which he had knowledgeable in regards to the resolution taken after the assembly.

    Tripathi circle of relatives is not going to take part in elections for the primary time
    Then again, there used to be communicate that Laliteshpati Tripathi, who left Congress and joined Trinamool Congress from Mirzapur’s Madihan seat, would contest on TMC price tag from this meeting. Lalitesh himself has put an finish to the theory by way of tweeting. The Tripathi circle of relatives, who used to be a robust chief of Congress in UP, will keep away from elections for the primary time.

  • TMC to lift IAS Cadre Rule modification factor in Parliament consultation

    By means of Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress is all set to lift the Centre’s proposed modification to the Indian Administrative Provider (IAS) Cadre Rule within the upcoming Parliament consultation scheduled to be held between January 31 and February 11, the birthday celebration introduced on Thursday.

    In a digital assembly with the birthday celebration MPs, TMC chairperson and West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee prompt the lawmakers to call for the elimination of governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as neatly following a up to date face-off with the constitutional head of the state.

    “The central executive is developing obstructions in opposition to the federal construction of the rustic. We will be able to oppose the Centre’s transfer to switch IAS officials, and different bureaucrats in long run to the central deputation with the state executive’s consent in each the homes of Parliament. We will be able to additionally talk about the problem with different political events who’re in opposition to the modification within the IAS Provider Cadre Rule,” mentioned MP Sudip Bandopadhyay.

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    Responding to the Centre’s revised proposal to amend the IAS (Cadre) Regulations, 1954, which is claimed to be aimed to obtain bureaucrats by means of moving them to central deputation with out the settlement of the state governments, Mamata Banerjee on January 13 wrote to High Minister Narendra Modi alleging the revised modification proposal is “extra draconian” and “in opposition to the rules” of federal polity. She additionally mentioned the modification will grasp at the head of every IAS officer like a “Damocles sword” and can create a “concern psychosis” this is certain to affect the officials’ efficiency, effectiveness and duty to the state executive.

    Resources within the birthday celebration mentioned Mamata, in Thursday’s assembly, gave the MPs a roadmap to sign up their protest throughout the impending Parliament consultation.

    “We will be able to additionally call for elimination of governor Jagdeep Dhankhar who’s echoing the voice of the BJP within the state. He hit out on the Leader Minister and her executive with a political goal at the premises of the Meeting which was once now not anticipated from a governor,” mentioned a TMC chief.
     
    Two days in the past, Dhankhar went to the Meeting to pay floral tribute to BR Ambedkar at the instance of Nationwide Voter’s Day and slammed Mamata and her executive.

    “There’s now rule of regulation within the state. It’s the ruler’s regulation that regulations the state. No voter is secure within the state. Other folks of this state needed to pay a heavy worth when they voted as according to their selection. The post-poll violence was once a mirrored image of it. The Leader Minister has no thought concerning the capability of the governor,” Dhankhar had mentioned.    

  • Trinamool Congress chief Yashwant Sinha sniffs ‘dictatorship’ in BJP’s ‘double engine’ talks

    Through PTI

    PANAJI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) vice-president Yashwant Sinha on Monday dubbed the BJP’s oft-repeated word ‘double engine governments’ with the intention to advertise “dictatorship”.

    The previous Union minister confident that pre-poll guarantees made by means of the TMC in Goa can be carried out if the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday celebration involves energy within the coastal state after the February 14 meeting polls.

    Chatting with newshounds right here, the bureaucrat-turned-politician stated, “Every so often in ‘double engine governments’, it’s conceivable that one engine is going in a single path, and the opposite in every other path. On a significant observe, I need to point out that if the central executive of the BJP is attempting to emphasise on short of to run double engine governments then all they would like is to run a dictatorship.”

    He stated insisting on ‘double engine’ method the BJP does no longer need another birthday celebration to come back to energy in states and shape executive. “These days, they’re speaking about double engines with admire to state governments, day after today they are going to speak about triple engine with admire to panchayats. How will this paintings?” he puzzled.

    As phase its ‘double engine’ marketing campaign narrative, BJP leaders enchantment to citizens to make a choice the similar birthday celebration (BJP or the alliance led by means of it, NDA) in poll-bound states as the only ruling on the Centre to verify higher construction in their states.

    Sinha stated the TMC’s pre-poll assurances in Goa are potential and the birthday celebration will enforce them when voted to energy. The TMC has cast an alliance with Goa’s oldest regional birthday celebration MGP for the meeting polls. “It’s my non-public assurance that the pre-poll guarantees made by means of the TMC in Goa can be carried out,” he stated.

    3 welfare schemes introduced by means of the TMC – focused at other sections of the society, together with ladies and early life – will probably be carried out as quickly because the birthday celebration paperwork a central authority in Goa, Sinha stated.

    The previous Union finance minister stated those schemes – Griha Laxmi, Yuva Shakti and Mhaje Ghar, Maalki Hakk (My House, My proper) – can also be funded with executive cash and carried out with correct fiscal control.

    Sinha stated those welfare schemes in combination will price the federal government round Rs 3,300 crore yearly and they may be able to be carried out with out enforcing any further tax on folks or borrowing budget from the marketplace.

    “On the subject of the norms that have been fastened by means of the Finance Fee and the Reserve Financial institution of India, Goa already has an extra fiscal house of Rs 2,100 crore. So, that leaves us with Rs 1,200 crore (extra), and in a (state) price range of Rs 25,000 crore, this quantity can simply be allocated and spent on those welfare schemes,” he added.

  • Goa Meeting elections: TMC rebuts Congress declare that ‘concrete’ alliance be offering used to be now not made

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    NEW DELHI: All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Thursday got here out with a powerful rebuttal to senior Congress chief P Chidambaram’s remark that there used to be no ‘concrete’ be offering however an insignificant ‘advice’ for a pre-poll alliance at the a part of TMC for the Goa meeting elections.

    TMC’s nationwide vp, Pavan Ok Varma on Thursday spoke back to P Chidambaram’s remark pronouncing it used to be a ways got rid of from the reality. Varma stated he used to be dismayed and disenchanted and {that a} ‘concrete’ proposal for an alliance to beef up the opposition used to be made to the Congress Birthday celebration from the TMC’s aspect by means of none as opposed to him.

    “I, within the capability of TMC’s nationwide vice-president, met him at his Lodhi place of dwelling at 1.30 pm on December 24 after in quest of right kind appointment for the assembly. I introduced a suggestion to him in particular person for a pre-poll alliance however he stated the topic relating to a pre-poll alliance with TMC for the Goa meeting elections used to be above him”, Varma stated on Thursday.

    It must be famous that Congress Birthday celebration has previous appointed P Chidambaram because the in-charge of Goa polls. Chidambaram, in his remark concerning the loss of ‘concrete’ alliance be offering from the TMC, additionally discussed that the poaching of Congress birthday party contributors by means of the TMC in Goa had nearly diminished the potential of a pre-poll alliance between the events.

    Difficult Chidambaram’s remark, Pavan Varma claimed that Chidambaram spoke back to the be offering by means of pronouncing that taking a choice relating to alliance used to be a ways above him.

    Varma stated {that a} day after the assembly, Chidambaram advised him over the telephone additionally that the general authority to come to a decision at the alliance with the TMC for the Goa meeting polls rested with Rahul Gandhi.

    Varma stated that once he met Chidambaram, Rahul Gandhi used to be now not in India. “Upon Rahul Gandhi’s go back from aboard, I once more spoke with Chidambaram inquiring for to expedite the method of forming an alliance. However not anything used to be carried out to this impact until now. Now, he’s pronouncing on nationwide TV that there was no concrete proposal for alliance from our aspect. This is merely the untruth.” Varma stated.

    Varma additionally stated that he used to be shocked by means of the way during which Chidambaram, a senior Congress chief, who has served as Union Finance Minister and House Minister, used to be making an attempt to deceive the folks at the factor of an alliance.

    “As soon as the Congress birthday party had agreed for the alliance, all different formalities like seat-sharing and the verdict as to who will lead the alliance would have indisputably been labored out amicably”, he stated.

    Varma stated an affirmative reaction at the a part of Congress remained awaited by means of the TMC for the alliance for the Goa meeting polls.

    Just lately, Varma talking to TNIE had additionally denied that TMC used to be weakening the Congress Birthday celebration by means of poaching its contributors. He had stated that the TMC used to be seeking to recreate an actual Congress in TMC by means of offering a powerful selection to the BJP.

    Varma had additionally stated to TNIE that the prevailing management of the Congress birthday party used to be now not ready to take at the BJP by means of themselves even with a pan-India presence.

    But even so this, a Twitter struggle were happening between the leaders of the Congress Birthday celebration and the TMC. Mahua Moitra had stated that the Grand Outdated Birthday celebration shouldn’t be driving prime horse pondering of itself because the ‘Emperor of India’ responding to P Chidambaram’s tweet that stated, to defeat the BJP, there must be ‘Congress plus others, now not others plus Congress”.

  • At 24, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress eyes nationwide degree

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Twenty-four years after Mamata Banerjee shaped the Trinamool Congress on January 1, 1998 to unseat the Left Entrance from energy in West Bengal, her birthday party has transcended the geographical barriers of the japanese state and now makes an attempt to enlarge its footprint around the nation to pose a right away problem to the BJP within the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    With the nationwide opposition in shambles, the TMC, which Banerjee floated after quitting the Congress, is trying to seize that house through difficult the grand outdated birthday party, branding it as “war-weary” and accusing it of failing to place up a combat in opposition to the BJP.

    On the identical time, the birthday party is positioning itself because the “actual Congress” and the one outfit to oppose the saffron camp enamel and nail, after its landslide victory on this yr’s meeting elections in West Bengal regardless of the BJP’s huge marketing campaign to unseat her from energy.

    In a bid to venture West Bengal Leader Minister as the primary opposition face in opposition to Top Minister Narendra Modi, the TMC is on a rebranding overdrive, inducting folks from various geographies and political backgrounds, mooting to switch the birthday party’s charter, and its title for a pan-India enchantment earlier than it takes a plunge into an enormous national marketing campaign for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

    Banerjee’s clarion name for opposition solidarity to take away the BJP from energy has no longer stopped her from increasing her centre-left birthday party in quite a lot of states.

    Within the closing six months, her birthday party has opened gadgets in Goa, Haryana, Tripura and Meghalaya.

    The birthday party, which rarely had any significant life in Meghalaya, has emerged as the primary opposition birthday party within the northeastern state after 12 of the 17 Congress MLAs led through former leader minister Mukul Sangma joined the TMC.

    In neighbouring Tripura, the birthday party objectives to pose a problem to the ruling BJP, despite the fact that the saffron birthday party swept the not too long ago held civic polls within the state.

    As a part of its nationwide growth technique, the TMC has inducted Congress chief from Bihar and previous BJP MP Kirti Azad, former JD(U) MP Pawan Verma, former Congress Haryana leader Ashok Tanwar, Delhi-based RTI activist Saket Gokhale, former Mahila Congress leader Sushmita Dev, former Goa leader minister Luizhino Falerio, former Union minister Babul Supriyo amongst many others.

    “The TMC desires to shed its regional birthday party tag. None of those not too long ago inducted leaders are mass leaders, however each and every has his/her personal id and power. Those inductions are a part of our nationwide growth so that we have got a pan-India enchantment and a holistic view earlier than formulating the 2024 Lok Sabha ballot technique,” a senior birthday party chief informed PTI.

    The birthday party has determined to switch its charter and enlarge its core committee to deal with extra recent inductees from various backgrounds.

    “The TMC is present process a qualitative and quantitative alternate underneath the management of Mamata Banerjee to emerge as the primary opposition pressure through 2022. We can be the actual Congress. There are a large number of proposals which are being mentioned on learn how to emerge as a countrywide birthday party. Talks are on with potential allies in quite a lot of states who’re antagonistic to the BJP,” Verma informed PTI.

    TMC assets mentioned that the birthday party desires to create its id with no need to hold the “luggage” of being an offshoot of Congress, and likewise advertise the “Bengal type of construction” vis-à-vis the “Gujarat type” showcased through the BJP forward of the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

    “Within the closing 10 years, the TMC, via its stint in govt, has created a distinct segment for itself the place our developmental insurance policies have no longer most effective earned nationwide and world popularity, but additionally were adopted through different states too. We need to mirror the Bengal type nationally,” the birthday party’s West Bengal normal secretary Kunal Ghosh mentioned.

    The birthday party may be mulling to switch its authentic title of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to one thing which has a countrywide enchantment and is more straightforward to connect to the hundreds, whilst additionally sticking to its roots.

    “Discussions are underway on converting the birthday party’s title however not anything has been finalised but,” TMC MP Sougata Roy mentioned.

    Born out of the Congress’ womb in 1998, the TMC defeated the mighty Left Entrance in 2011, after two unsuccessful makes an attempt in 2001 and 2006.

    This isn’t the primary time that the birthday party is trying to enlarge nationally.

    In 2012 too, it had opened a number of gadgets in northeastern states, which needed to be dissolved after the birthday party leaders converted to the BJP or the grand outdated birthday party.

    However this time, the TMC has ballot strategist Prashant Kishor and his I-PAC through its aspect, with which it has prolonged the contract until 2026.

    Kishor had performed a very important position in making sure the birthday party’s meeting polls victory this yr.

    Kishor has been setting up conferences between Banerjee and different opposition leaders, and may be enjoying the most important position within the induction of leaders from numerous backgrounds, birthday party assets mentioned.

    TMC’s fresh launching of salvos in opposition to the Congress and Gandhi circle of relatives is a part of its narrative to create a separate id in nationwide politics as an opposition birthday party to the BJP with no need to play 2d mess around to the grand outdated birthday party, they mentioned.

    “In nationwide politics, one can see a number of regional events that play 2d mess around to Congress. The grand outdated birthday party has failed, this can be a spent pressure. We need to create our personal id,” Ghosh mentioned.

    As a part of its image-building workout, the TMC is bobbing up with state-specific campaigns projecting Banerjee as a pacesetter related to “inclusivity and just right governance”.

    “The picture constructing workout has two aspects. One is to craft Banerjee’s picture as a self-made flesh presser who comes from a non-political background, who isn’t a manufactured from dynasty politics and showcasing her humble origins – how she gave tuitions to scholars and labored in milk cubicles. A number of films and documentaries in quite a lot of languages are being deliberate,” a birthday party chief mentioned.

    “The second one aspect is to venture the TMC’s pro-democracy credentials, which took successful as a result of the 2018 panchayat election violence. We need to craft a picture of a birthday party that doesn’t improve violence and promotes unfastened and honest elections,” he mentioned.

    The BJP and Congress, then again, ridiculed TMC’s nationwide ambitions as “dwarf’s desires to the touch the sky”.

    “The TMC does not have any ideology. Its ideology is to poach leaders from different events to achieve floor. It has completed this in West Bengal and now need to mirror this Bengal type around the nation. However this sort of politics would possibly not yield effects,” Congress chief in Lok Sabha and state birthday party president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury mentioned.

    Echoing him, BJP nationwide vp Dilip Ghosh mentioned that the TMC’s nationwide ambitions will fall flat in 2024.

    “There’s a announcing that dwarf at all times desires of touching the sky. This is similar for TMC and its nationwide ambitions. We have now noticed it in 2014 and 2019,” he mentioned.

    Political analyst Biswanath Chakraborty then again, mentioned that the TMC has a “large doable” to emerge as a countrywide opposition pressure, however first, it has to rectify its picture, particularly referring to democracy and corruption.

    “There’s a large vacuum within the nationwide opposition house. It can be time-taking, however the TMC has an enormous doable to fill this up,” he added.