During the 15 years that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) remained in power, July 21 gradually transformed. What had once been a day marked by grief, sacrifice, and remembrance increasingly became a symbolic celebration of the party itself.

Mamata Banerjee led the Shahid Diwas rally near the Birla Planetarium, while rebels held a parallel programme near the Mahatma Gandhi statue

On June 23, the ED registered an Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR) based on an FIR lodged by the Bidhannagar Cyber Crime Police, alleging money laundering through the party's funds.

Abhishek Banerjee was responding to a question on the ever-increasing defections from the TMC in the aftermath of its assembly poll debacle, leaving Mamata Banerjee hanging by a thread as far as her control over the party.

The office was demolished in Amtala in South 24 Parganas district.

Political observers have linked Koel Mallick's exit to the broader churn within the party after its loss of power in Bengal.

Madan Mitra's exit came a day after the ED issued notices to members of his family in connection with the school recruitment scam investigation

While brushing aside age-factor for her comeback, Mamata Banerjee vowed to rebuild her party like she claimed to have done twice earlier.

Madan Mitra's resignation comes two weeks after Mamata Banerjee made him Trinamool Congress' general secretary.

Congress leader Subhankar Sarkar urges Mamata Banerjee to attend July 21 programme and admit past political error

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The entry of the former Trinamool leaders into the BJP goes against the party's public pronouncements that it would not induct TMC leaders

Eggs are boiling over in West Bengal's political waters, and Trinamool Congress leaders are feeling the heat. A string of Trinamool leaders have been targeted in public egg attacks by "angry" citizens since the party's stunning defeat at the hands of the BJP in the Assembly polls. Party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, MPs Kunal Ghosh and...

The Trinamool Congress rally was regularly interrupted by jostling, pushing, and shoving between workers of the party and the BJP.

Trinamool Congress leader Kalyan Banerjee said that by calling the June 22 "special session", the rebels had violated the party's constitution.

Mamata Banerjee claimed she was put on house arrest to stop her from visiting the agrieved family.

Bhattacharya said Mamata Banerjee had accused her of "handing over" the Trinamool headquarters to the rebels.

Mamata Banerjee said the Trinamool's symbol would remain with the bloc loyal to her, indicating that the rebels might face a protracted legal battle.

Bhattacharya was long known as one of Mamata Banerjee's closest aides and held several important portfolios in the Trinamool government

Chandrima Bhattacharya had replaced Subrata Bakshi as Trinamool Bengal president after the party's Assembly election defeat

The rebels also put up a poster on the front gate identifying senior MLA Arup Roy as chairman of the All India Trinamool Congress. Photographs and cutouts of Mamata Banerjee in the building were left in place.

Suvendu Adhikari informed the Bengal Assembly that two First Information Reports, which would later be converted into legal cases, have been filed against Humayun Kabir.

The BJP has 207 MLAs in the 294-member house and is in a position to push through the Bill. The earlier Trinamool Congress government had opposed UCC and then Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had vowed to not impose it in Bengal.

India has thousands of political parties on paper. Some are genuine vehicles of aspiration. But others are beginning to look like political spare parts: useful when the main engine needs reassembly. Maharashtra and West Bengal are examples.