The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday, August 10, 2026 welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision allowing party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee to travel abroad for medical treatment.
A political confrontation erupted in Halisahar, North 24 Parganas, after former West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee’s vehicle was allegedly surrounded by protesters during her visit to the area on Sunday.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has ordered a fresh invitation into the rape and murder of the doctor at the RG Kar medical college and hospital in Kolkata.
The High Court has dismissed a petition filed by Abhishek seeking permission to travel abroad, bringing an end to his request at this stage. The court ruled that the reasons presented in support of the plea were not sufficient to justify relaxing the conditions imposed on him.
Three Lok Sabha MPs of the National Congress Progressive Initiative (NCPI) on Tuesday skipped the NDA parliamentary party’s weekly Mangal Milan meeting for the second time, bringing to the fore apparent differences within the 20-member breakaway Trinamool Congress (TMC) faction over its proximity to the BJP-led alliance.
West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari is scheduled to meet 20 Lok Sabha MPs of Nationalist Citizens Party Of India (NCPI), who parted away from the TMC.
Availability of land to set up industries appears to be a stumbling block in the path of West Bengal’s first BJP-run state government. This is an issue two previous state governments have found to be insoluble.
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.
Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Madan Mitra on Wednesday joined the rebel camp led by Leader of Opposition Ritabrata Banerjee, dealing another political setback to the Mamata Banerjee-led faction, even as he insisted that he remained a member of the party.
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.
