Trinamool Congress

On late Friday afternoon after the Governor took a detailed report from the state chief secretary H. K. Dwivedi and the state home secretary B. P. Gopalika about the situation in the tension-prone area, a strong-worded statement was issued by the Raj Bhavan from where the decision to set up this special monitoring cell was announced.

The decision to remove Ghulam Rabbani as the minority affairs minister was announced on Monday, when it was also said that the affairs of the department will now be under the purview of the Chief Minister. Rabbani has been transferred to the horticulture department.

Addressing a press conference, the BJP leader said, "TMC is not a political party but a 'private limited company'. He claimed that elections before Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power were held on three grounds - 'Dynasticism, ethnicity, appeasement - which has been rooted out except for two states, West Bengal and.

"I am sure the truth will surface some time or the other. Accepting the chair of the minister was my crime. I cannot claim that I was an extremely meritorious student. At the same time, I was not a bad student either. I am an alumnus of Ramakrishna Mission. I had been employed in an important position in a Central government undertaking. Now I feel that being a minister was my only crime," Partha Chatterjee said.

The suit was filed before a district court at Contai in East Midnapore district by Soumnedu Adhikari, the younger brother of Suvendu Adhikari. The suit has been filed against Cabinet minister Shashi Panja, Trinamool state general secretary and party spokesman Kunal Ghosh, and Trinamool mouthpiece 'Jago Bangla'.

The decision was taken at a meeting of the top leadership of the Trinamool, chaired by Chief Minister and party supremo Mamata Banerjee, at her residence here. Trinamool's leader in Lok Sabha Sudip Bandopadhyay also said that precisely that is why the Trinamool is refraining from floor coordination on the floor of Parliament with Congress.

Trinamool Congress sources said that the chief minister will reach Odisha- capital of Bhubaneswar on March 21 evening and make a night-stay there. On March 22, Mamata Banerjee will go to Puri and offer prayers at Shree Jagannath Temple there. On March 23, before taking the return flight to Kolkata from Bhubaneswar, Trinamool sources said, there is a possibility of her meeting with Naveen Patnaik.

Despite being in judicial custody for so many months since his arrest by the CBI in August last year, the Trinamool Congress leadership has not announced his replacement as the party's Birbhum district president. This is in sharp contrast to the case of former state Education Minister Partha Chatterjee, who was stripped of all his ministerial and party posts just a week after his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the multi-crore teachers' recruitment scam.

Metbah Lyndoh, the president of UDP that bagged 11 seats to finish second behind the NPP (26), in a letter to Conrad Sangma mentioned: "Congratulations on your party's performance, resulting in the resounding victory. In light of the people's mandate, I on behalf of the parliamentary party of the United Democratic Party, do hereby extend support for government formation."

"Deliberate incitement to spread hatred and do personal harm upon me being aggressively done. People engaged in the criminal conspiracy are inciting to create communal riots and personal harm to me. Just reported to the CS to take action as per law," he said. The state government has beefed security outside his home as a result.