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Redemption of electoral bonds by the Mamata Banerjee-led All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC), the second largest recipient of such donations to political parties between April 2019 and January 2024, increased after the party swept the West Bengal Assembly elections in 2021.
Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has had her share of firefighting when it comes to her nephew and anointed successor, Abhishek Banerjee. But there can be only so much family one can take.
WITH the Congress keeping its hopes up regarding an alliance with the Trinamool Congress, till the party dashed the same and unveiled names for all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal on Sunday, the grand old party is still to work out a seat-sharing arrangement with its partner Left. This is even as the BJP too has released nearly half the names from its list.
The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday released its list of candidates for all 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, with 25, or more than half of its candidates, first-time contestants. With this, the TMC has attempted to quell any anti-incumbency sentiment that may exist against sitting MPs.
There will be a distinctly different feel to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) rally at Kolkata’s Brigade Parade Ground this Sunday, from where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew Abhishek Banerjee are all set to launch their Lok Sabha campaign. Unlike the upbeat and assertive rally five years ago at the same historic grounds, there is an undercurrent of apprehension in the party ranks heading into the ‘Jana Garjan Sabha (People’s Roar Rally)’.
Early on Monday,veteran leader Tapas Roy (67) announced he was leaving the Trinamool Congress (TMC). The MLA from Baranagar since 2011, Roy declared himself a “free bird”. Although it’s unclear whether Roy will join the BJP, TMC sources claimed it is a matter of time.
The discontent against the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Sandeshkhali has already put the ruling party on the backfoot in West Bengal. With the Lok Sabha polls round the corner, the allegations of land grab and sexual assault have added fire to the party’s troubles, which started over two years ago, following probes by central agencies into allegations of scams and arrests of senior party leaders that have continued with regularity since then.
A day after the arrest of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman Sheikh Shahjahan who has been accused of sexual harassment and land grabbing in Sandeshkali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on his first visit to West Bengal in three years.