The internal crisis within the Trinamool Congress (TMC) deepened on Wednesday as a group of rebel MLAs, including expelled party leaders Ritabrata Banerjee and Sandipan Saha, claimed the backing of 58 legislators in the West Bengal Assembly and rejected the party leadership's choice, Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, for the post of Leader of Opposition (LoP).
Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Thursday filed a petition in the Calcutta High Court seeking permission to visit the site of the warehouse fire in Anandpur, Kolkata, where 21 bodies have been recovered so far and several people are still missing.
n an unprecedented development, a total of five Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators were suspended from the House within less than two hours on the last day of the special session of the West Bengal Assembly
Kolkata: Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, has urged Governor C.V. Ananda Bose to initiate a probe into alleged irregularities in the e-tendering process of the state tourism directorate, following revelations made by a whistle-blower from within the department. Adhikari cited an email sent by Shubhabrata Pramanick, a project officer.
