Multiple first information reports (FIRs) have been lodged against Bengali actor Sreelekha Mitra across West Bengal on Sunday (July 26, 2026) for allegedly carrying a poster with an objectionable cartoon of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the massive students’ rally in Kolkata on Friday (July 24, 2026) demanding Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation.
Mamata Banerjee believes the streets will show the way to revive her party (Paath hi paathdekhabe). The TMC supremo declared, from her July 21 rally stage, that a rediscovery of her party will begin from the streets and with a reconnection to Bengal’s rural heart.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday (July 20, 2026) announced that starting from September 1, the State Government will give priority to the Bengali language in all official government work.
In the first direct engagement between the Centre and the agitating Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), Union Health Minister J P Nadda on Monday met two representatives of the outfit to discuss their demands.
A day before the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, holds his second interaction with students at Dehradun, the Congress on Thursday (July 16, 2026) urged educator and innovator Sonam Wangchuk to end his fast unto death. In a post on X, party general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal assured Mr. Wangchuk that the Congress would carry out its fight against Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan.
The Calcutta High Court cleared the way for the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of Trinamool Congress to hold its annual Martyrs’ Day programme on July 21 at a new venue near Birla Planetarium after refusing to permit the gathering at its traditional site in front of Victoria House.
Former Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MPs Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Prakash Chik Baraik joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata on Thursday.
The battle for control of the TMC intensified on Thursday after the Ritabrata Banerjee-led rebel faction met the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI).
On June 30, 2026, twenty-three Opposition political parties and one Independent Member of Parliament sent a joint memorandum to the Chief Justice of India (CJI), Justice Surya Kant, in New Delhi to demand judicial intervention against the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) Special Intensive Revision (SIR) process
