New Delhi: Amid a fresh unity bid by the Opposition to take on the BJP the Trinamool Congress today said its chief Mamata Banerjee had reached out to DMK working president MK Stalin for co-ordination in and outside Parliament.Ms Banerjee has taken a lead in defeating the BJP by talking to federal parties. We are on track TMC Rajya Sabha member Derek O Brien said.After calling up Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao Ms Banerjee held telephonic conversation with the DMK leader Mr O Brien said adding there was good coordination between TRS TDP SP BSP TMC and DMK in Parliament on various issues today.His remarks came in the backdrop of Ms Banerjee again pitching for regional parties to come together to take on the BJP after the results of assembly elections in Tripura Meghalaya and Nagaland.Responding to a question Mr O Brien rejected the suggestion that the Congress has been excluded from the grouping Mamata Banerjee is working on.He said the West Bengal chief minister also spoke with Shiv Sena Uddhav Thackeray. The two leaders had been in touch with each other. Though it is part of the governments in Maharashtra and at the centre Sena has been critical of the BJP and its leadership.The Lok Sabha saw frequent disruptions today following vociferous protests by opposition members over the Punjab National Bank fraud and other issues while MPs of NDA ally TDP continued to raise their demand for a special package to Andhra Pradesh.Soon after Speaker Sumitra Mahajan made obituary references members from the Congress TRS and other parties as well as from the TDP trooped into the Well raising various issues.Mr O Brien said that during her nearly 12-minute conversation Ms Banerjee told Mr Stalin that a good show by the TMC and the DMK in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu respectively would mean a block of nearly 75 MPs in Parliament. CommentsClose X A day after he announced his entry into national politics TRS chief K Chandrasekhar Rao had received support from various political leaders including Ms Banerjee. From morning I have been receiving many calls from various places in India. This afternoon West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee called me and said that I have taken the right decision and she will be supporting me and that we will go forward together Mr Rao had said a couple of days ago.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is one of the major political parties in India. The BJP s origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh formed in 1951 by Syama Prasad Mookerjee. After the State of Emergency in 1977 the Jana Sangh merged with several other parties to form the Janata Party. After three years in power the Janata party dissolved in 1980 with the members of the erstwhile Jana Sangh reconvening to form the BJP. Live: Union Budget 2018 | Key highlights of the budgetAfter the 1998 general election the BJP-led coalition known as the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) formed a government under Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee for a year. Following fresh elections the NDA government again headed by Vajpayee lasted for a full term in office. For the next ten years the BJP was the principal opposition party. In the 2014 general election Narendra Modi led it to a landslide victory. Narendra Modi was sworn in as the 15th Prime Minister of India on 26 May 2014.BJP won the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections by an overwheming three-quarter majority of 325 seats despite not projecting a chief ministerial candidate before the election.It also won the state assembly elections in Uttarakhand. The BJP-SAD alliance in Punjab lost the 2017 assembly elections with each winning 3 and 15 seats respectively. In Manipur BJP won 21 seats and 13 seats in Goa.
Hyderabad: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday telephoned her Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhar Rao to extend her support to his plan to cobble up a third front as an alternative to both the BJP and the Congress. The Trinamool Congress leader spoke to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief to convey that she is with him in bringing like-minded parties together. According to the Chief Minister s Office Mamata told him that she fully agrees with him and is ready to work with him. Ham aap se ek mat hain. Aap ke saath rahengey (I am in agreement with you. I will work with you) the CMO quoted her as saying. File image of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. PTI KCR as the TRS chief is popularly known said on Saturday that there is a need for a qualitative change in the Indian politics and declared that he is ready to bring together like minded parties. Former Jharkhand chief minister Hemanth Soren also telephoned KCR and expressed his solidarity. He welcomed KCR s decision to play a key role in national politics. Two MPs from Maharashtra and prominent persons from different walks of life also spoke to KCR over the phone and expressed their support. The TRS chief has been receiving support from people belonging to different walks of life. People from all parts of Telangana are reaching Pragathi Bhavan the official residence of the Chief Minister to express their support. Pundits from different temples representatives of the Brahmin community maulvis from different mosques representatives of Muslim organisations Fathers from churches Christian religious representatives Sikh religious representatives employees from RTC Singareni electricity department Banjaras tribals backward classes representatives and others are reaching Pragathi Bhavan in large numbers to express solidarity with KCR.
By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Updated: March 3 2018 7:50 am At present BJP is the only party which is fighting against the CPM Mamata Banerjee has moved away from the fight Roy said on Thursday. Related News TMC warm to others frosty with CongressBharati Ghosh: Once Mamata govt top cop now most wanted Delhi chalo says Mamata Banerjee amid efforts to form anti-BJP frontWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s birthday wishes to her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee have attracted verbal jibes from her former aide and current BJP leader Mukul Roy who called the TMC and the CPM two sides of the same coin . Roy said that Mamata has forgotten she had once said that Buddhadeb s hands are filled with blood after deaths in police firing in the Nandigram episode when the CPM leader helmed the state. As Buddhadeb turned 73 on Thursday Banerjee wished him through a Twitter message and also sent flowers sweets and cakes to his two-bedroom government residence at Palm Avenue in south Kolkata through her security personnel. Birthday greetings to Buddhadeb Bhattacharya former Chief Minister of West Bengal she tweeted. At present BJP is the only party which is fighting against the CPM Mamata Banerjee has moved away from the fight Roy said on Thursday. After coming to power in 2011 she is trying to get close to CPM. She is saying that in Tripura it will be better if the CPI(M) wins. She is wishing Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on his birthday. Stating that wishing someone on his birthday is not wrong Roy said But she has forgotten that years ago she said that Buddhadeb s hands are filled with blood (after police firing) and went to gherao his house. He said There is no difference between the Trinamool Congress and the CPM now. Earlier too the chief minister has asked about Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee s health. In fact although she came to power in West Bengal fighting the CPM she is with the CPM now. Mamata had visited Bhattacharjee s home after he fell ill recently to ask about his health conditions. She had also also expressed anguish over the ill-maintained condition of the flat and instructed Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) authorities to undertake repair work immediately she had offered Bhattacharjee a government guesthouse to stay with wife Mira Bhattacharjee in the interim while the repair activities were on. A senior Bengal BJP leader who did not wish to be named due to Roy s proximity with the party s central leadership said he personally does not endorse Roy s he comments. This is a matter of political courtesy where a present chief minister has conveyed birthday wishes to her predecessor. I think it would have been better had Roy not made the comment and that too on occasion of Dol Purnima (Holi) he said. On February 28 Banerjee had said on the floor of the Assembly that she would have been happy if the CPM wins in the Tripura Assembly elections. The results of the elections in Tripura where the NDA is projected to emerge victorious by at least two exit polls as well as those in Meghalaya and Nagaland will be declared Saturday. For all the latest Kolkata News download Indian Express App Get assembly election result LIVE updates from each constituency in Tripura Nagaland and Meghalaya More Related News BJP-RSS trying to trigger riot by throwing meat at religious places in Bengal: Mamata Banerjee Will wipe out TMC from West Bengal just like CPM from Tripura: Dilip Ghosh Tags: Mamata Banerjee Mukul Roy UUnited Hindus.Mar 3 2018 at 11:24 amBEWARE of Blackpower 666 member.. He is m usli m congre supporter. the 2019 strategy of Opposition is to divide Hindu community. Recent Patel Maratha and Jaat andolan is Factual evidence. This Blackpower 666 fellow not only posts against RSS and BJP he maligns Hindu gods. BEWARE OF HIM. As 2019 election such anti nationals will get more active. So I request all Hindu community to stay united and dont fall prey to such antinationals whose only agenda is to bring congress back in power by dividing Hindu community.(1)(1) Reply Bapi SahooMar 3 2018 at 11:08 amStandard of Jumla party. Full of hatered politics.(7)(2) Reply SSuhasMar 3 2018 at 9:46 amSo what? Ur fekuchand topiwala also wished rahul and sonia on their birthday when e very day he accuses them of curruption which is not there. So wish by feku is good and by others to their arch rivals is not good? Mukuljee u are a small version of feku who is obsesed of hate congress. U r obsessed with hate mamata.(15)(2) Reply Thamizh VirumbiMar 3 2018 at 9:31 ammukul roy is a caged parrot. He has an opportunist selfish.(24)(2) Reply balaji baliarsinghMar 3 2018 at 8:48 amPolitics is all dirty. It is always a deceitful game to grab power in the public name. Nothing is surprised in this field. All the Neta are great Abhineta only(5)(1) Reply Load More Comments
KOLKATA: Chief minister Mamata Banerjee has sent birthday wishes to her predecessor and CPM leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and DMK working president MK Stalin who share their birthdays on March 1. But she hasn t done so for Bihar CM Nitish Kumar who too was born the same day. The West Bengal CM s birthday wishes to Bhattacharjee four months after she visited the ailing CPM leader at his Palm Avenue home has raised eyebrows in political circles. A few days ago Banerjee had taken the initiative to get the toilet of her predecessor s two-room flat repaired. Political pundits see the CM s alacrity as something beyond courtesy. They see Banerjee redefining her battlelines for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in which BJP and not CPM is her main target. She had dropped a hint in the assembly on Wednesday urging CPM MLAs to look at the big picture emerging at the national level where BJP has appeared as the main danger. Banerjee s target this time is Left voters who believe this to be true even if CPM bosses in Delhi don t approve of a rainbow coalition against BJP. The Bengal CM has been at it for long after floating the proposal for a national front against BJP. Trinamool leaders have been reaching out to parties from DMK to even Shiv Sena and to Lalu Prasad s RJD and Samajwadi Party in an attempt to bring anti-BJP parties on a single platform. Banerjee s birthday message to Stalin is part of this drive. We have a strong party-to-party relation with DMK since 2014. Members of both parties have excellent floor adjustment in Parliament Trinamool s Rajya Sabha leader Derek O Brien said. Confident of winning most of the 42 Lok Sabha seats the Trinamool chief has emerged a key anti-BJP face at national level. Banerjee is thus into a bargain with Congress over space in this anti-BJP platform because her party will no longer play second fiddle. Expanding her political periphery the Trinamool chief is also sending Derek to the wedding of TDP parliamentary leader Y S Chowdary s daughter. TDP is an NDA partner. But when it comes to Nitish Banerjee is stubborn. The Bihar CM had given her the cold shoulder when she campaigned against demonetisation in Patna a year ago.
By: Express News Service | Kolkata | Updated: March 4 2018 3:25 am West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (File) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday blamed Congress s failure and CPM s surrender for BJP s win in Tripura. She stated that had Congress got into a proposed electoral understanding with Trinamool Congress and other hill parties BJP would not have won in the state. She also expressed surprise that CPM did not protest or register complaints against malpractices by the BJP. Speaking at state secretariat Nabanna Banerjee said Instead of terming it BJP s victory I would term it failure on behalf of Congress and CPM surrendering itself. They (BJP) did not win in Meghalaya because there was resistance. Congress must take the blame for this (result). They are the ones who provided oxygen to the BJP. I had personally offered to create a common platform to combat BJP but they rejected my offer said Banerjee. I personally requested Rahul to come onboard and let the Congress Trinamool and tribal parties fight together. I had even suggested possible seat adjustments. We were ready to contest on 14 seats Congress could have fought 30 leaving 16 seats for the hill parties. This would have been a good platform to fight the BJP. It is their total negligence. I don t know on whose advice they rejected my offer. Now look where they stand she added. Banerjee however added The game is not so easy. They (BJP) will not win in Karnataka. They recently lost the bypolls in Rajasthan. Bengal and Odisha are distant dreams. I am still of the opinion that BJP will face devastation in 2019. For all the latest India News download Indian Express App Get assembly election result LIVE updates from each constituency in Tripura Nagaland and Meghalaya Tags: Mamata Banerjee Kalyana Chakravarthy VennelakantiMar 5 2018 at 5:44 amShe lacks maturity and control over her tongue. Targeting a party is not good always fight should be issue based Any good work to be appreciated and bad one to be protested.(0)(0) Reply RRajeshMar 4 2018 at 4:15 amAh if jihadi didi thinks BJP will will face devastation in 2019 then they will definitely win. Momoto has nothing but corruption to show for her years in power. Is there a single thing that has been accomplished in West Bengal since you came to office?(1)(3) Reply
HYDERABAD: A day after Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao positioned himself nationally coining a new concept of people s third front against BJP and Congress he claimed support was pouring in from across the political spectrum. Speaking at a public meeting at his camp office in Hyderabad KCR said he received calls from West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren six MPs from Maharashtra and Jana Sena chief Pawan Kalyan seeking an alternative front against Congress and BJP. Telugu Desam Party which had threatened to pull out of NDA over poor budgetary grants to Andhra Pradesh couched its support to its Telugu counterpart in Telangana by saying states are at a disadvantage in the current dispensation. TDP spokesperson Rajendra Prasad said the party is keeping an eye on the development. We agree with KCR on this issue. Andhra Pradesh is bearing the brunt of the crisis. Decision with clear mind not emotion On Saturday TRS president KCR reiterated his decision to enter national politics with a clear mind and notwithemotion . When I launched the Telangana movement people had doubts about its result. But finally our commitment paidoff hesaid. https://www.pentaxuser.com/user/arfplayer-395459 The CM declared he would play a key role in national politics to usher change. He also said he would meet various party leaders and was ready to lead thethird front. Addressing party workers on Sunday KCR said West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee called me this afternoon and conveyed support. She agreed with me that there was a necessity for qualitative change in country s politics. Mamata said shewillwork with me. Soren also expressed solidarity with KCR and welcomed his decision to play a key role in national politics. Also six MPs from Maharashtra several intellectualsexpressedsupport to thechief minister. TRS leaders and people from across state gathered at his residence on Sunday. Priests representatives from Brahmin community clerics representatives of Muslim organizations Christian and Sikh representatives thronged theCMOtoexpresssolidarity.
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