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The Election Commission of India has frozen the Trinamool Congress name and ‘Flowers & Grass’ symbol for the October 6 bypolls, assigning separate interim designations to factions led by Mamata Banerjee and Arup Roy. Amid an urgent Supreme Court challenge by the party supremo, an emerging Congress-Mamata alignment has prompted the resignation of Trinamool’s Nandigram nominee.
The upcoming October 6 by-elections in Nandigram and Rejinagar have turned into a crucial referendum on Bengal’s political ground reality. While the BJP seeks to consolidate its hold, the contest between Mamata Banerjee’s loyalists and Ritabrata Banerjee’s dissident bloc will decide who commands actual public support as the state’s true opposition voice.
The fight for control of the Trinamool Congress reached the Election Commission of India on Thursday as rival camps led by Mamata Banerjee and Leader of Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee staked claim to the party name and symbol. With high-profile by-elections in Nandigram and Rejinagar scheduled for October 6, the ECI’s imminent verdict will determine which faction enters the fray as the authentic TMC.
“I was never involved in corruption. It was a blunder to join politics,” states the suicide note of the deceased former deputy speaker of West Bengal Assembly and ex-Trinamool Congress MLA from Rampurhat in Birbhum district, Asish Banerjee, who was found hanging at an office of the party on Sunday morning, police sources said.
Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging the Centre to reconsider the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026. Soren has raised concerns that the proposed legislation could affect the state’s financial resources and reduce its authority over mineral-rich land.
The attack on Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Shing Badal at Gurdwara Mata Saheb in Nanded, Maharashtra, has again raised concerns about tension between Badal and some sections of Sikh community.
Chandra Kumar Bose announced plans on August 11, 2026, to launch a new political outfit named the Azad Hind Party. The 66-year-old is the grandnephew of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
Former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday (August 11, 2026) held a protest next to a statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in Kolkata’s Shyambazar area over controversial remarks made against Bose by a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Rajya Sabha MP.
Parliament has passed the Tribunals Reforms Bill, 2026, paving the way for the establishment of a National Tribunals Commission aimed at bringing greater uniformity, transparency and efficiency to the country’s tribunal system. The Rajya Sabha approved the Bill on Tuesday through a voice vote, after the Lok Sabha had passed it earlier.
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