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Congress president MallikarjunKharge is among the seven Rajya Sabha candidates across five States that the party announced on Thursday (June 4, 2026) for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections on June 18.
The buzz over formation of a new Trinamool Congress without Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek Banerjee has surfaced in West Bengal politics. The matter surfaced after two Trinamool MLAs, Ritabrata Bandopadhyay and Sandipan Saha, were removed from the party for being the whistleblowers against the party over the signature row.
Is Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress headed for a split in the Assembly? The appointment of the Leader of Opposition has exposed the divide within the party.
On June 6, 2026, thousands of student activists led by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) founder Abhijeet Dipke staged a massive demonstration at Jantar Mantar to demand the immediate resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged national exam paper leaks and systemic educational irregularities. The youth-led organization issued a strict seven-day ultimatum to the central government, warning that they will magnify their protests into a nationwide agitation if their demands are not met by Saturday, June 13, 2026.
PahlajNihalani, film producer and former chairperson of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC), died on Thursday. He was 76.