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Bengal Split: Mamata Banerjee-Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Rift Has Bitter Past As Ex-Congress Colleagues

Snehashish RoyJanuary 25, 20240

The Opposition INDIA alliance is falling apart in West Bengal, where the Left parties have been opposing the TMC for a long time. This is because Mamata Banerjee, the TMC chief and the state’s Chief Minister, has announced that her party will go solo in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, leaving the Congress behind. The relationship between the TMC and the state Congress unit has been sour and bitter for years, especially between Mamata and the state Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who are also the CM and the Leader of the Lok Sabha respectively. They have been hostile to each other for decades. Mamata, who is 69 years old and has been the CM three times, left the Congress and formed the TMC on January 1, 1998. Adhir, who is 67 years old and has been an MP from Berhampo...

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West Bengal SSC Scam: Ramifications For Indian Administration From Partha Chatterjee Case

Sayani ChakrabortyAugust 1, 20220

Mamata Banerjee's decision to remove Partha Chatterjee from her cabinet and party leadership positions was wise, but in political terms, she had little option. Hoarding illegal funds in flats is an easy task for law enforcement, according to the former Trinamool minister and his assistant, who have both been expelled from the party. Public perception is swayed even in a society where political brazenness about corruption is the norm. As a shrewd politician who knew that Chatterjee had become a source of embarrassment and liability for the BJP, Banerjee was always ready to take on the Centre, its agencies, and the BJP. The BJP, desperate to reclaim its footing in Bengal after TMC thrashed it in the polls, would see this as a golden chance. Is it possible that the CM was not aware of ...

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Mamata Banerjee’s ‘Muri’ Politics Over Fight Against GST Hike

Snehashish RoyJuly 22, 20220

Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal, is quite upset about the application of the GST on puffed rice. On July 21, when speaking at her party's annual Martyrs' Day rally in Kolkata, she pulled some 'muri' (puffed rice) from her purse and summoned a vendor to the stage to make a furious point about the taxation of the food item. The typical 'muri' In the streets of Kolkata and other state cities and towns, in markets, and in the local trains that connect the suburbs with the state's capital, it's difficult to miss the 'muri' — known as 'murmura' in northern and western India — vendors. They vigorously shake their steel containers while adding chopped onions, green chillies, coriander leaves, peanuts, and a dash of mustard oil to the puffed rice to rustle up 'jhaal muri

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West Bengal Chancellor Bill: Legal, Constitutional Challenges Ahead Of Appointing CM As Varsity Chancellor

Snehashish RoyJune 15, 20220

West Bengal government on June 13 passed a bill that replaced the Governor with the chief minister as the chancellor of the state-run universities. The move is seen in line with other Opposition-led states that curtailed the Centre's authority. The West Bengal legislative assembly, using the West Bengal University Laws (Ammendment) Bill, replaced the Governor Jagdeep Dhankar with CM as the chancellor of state-run universities. However, the bill is yet to become a law which will need Governor Dhankar's sign.  Governor's powers on state-run universities as chancellor Governors, as chancellors, in most states have the power to officially dismiss a decision by the universities' decision-making bodies and to recruit vice-chancellors. They preside over the convocations organised in th...

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