Trinamool Congress

"The national conference of Assembly Speakers will be in Assam on April 11 and April 12. I will be attending that conference. In the meeting, the issue of external interference in the assembly affairs will be raised and discussed," Banerjee told media persons here, in a hint towards Governor, Jagdeep Dhankhar.

In fact, Trinamool supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee herself is keen to see the party win the seat in the crucial industrial and coal belt of the state, which has a sizeable Hindi-speaking population. During the closing hours of campaigning for the bypolls, Banerjee will conduct a mega rally in Asansol on April 10. A day before that, her nephew and national general secretary of Trinamool Congress, Abhishek Banerjee, will participate in a 3-km road show in Asansol.

Under attack for the Birbhum violence, the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal has called it a conspiracy to defame the law and order situation in the state. Trinamool MP Dola Sen, in an exclusive conversation with IANS, said, "Under Mamata Banerjee, the law and order situation in the state is at its best. Mamata di is such a leader who does not compromise on law and order. And we do not need advice from the BJP and the CPI(M)."

Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee -- nephew of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who was on Monday questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with a money laundering case pertaining to an alleged coal scam, has been again summoned by the probe agency to join the probe on March 29.

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar failed to deliver his budget speech in the Assembly on Monday following continuous protests by the MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP MLAs, led by Suvendu Adhikhari, were protesting against the violence during the recently-concluded civic polls.

Mamata went to take part in the Ganga Aarti at the Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi and to express her annoyance over the incident, she sat on the ghat steps instead of a chair and watched the Ganga Aarti. The West Bengal chief minister's convoy was passing through Chetganj area when a group of Hindu Yuva Vahini workers started raising slogans like 'wapas jao' (go back) and waved black flags. They were restrained by the police present on the spot.