A parliamentary panel on coal blocks allocations has suggested that all allotments between 1993 and 2008 be scrapped, effectively blaming the previous NDA government too. ...
07:04 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma on Monday had a spat inside the Lok Sabha, which turned ugly with the former turning abusive. The incident occurred when Banerjee, who was part of his party MPs' team which was raising slogans in the Well on the FDI issue, was returning to his seat after the House adjourned for the day shortly after noon. Banerjee and...
05:49 PM, Nov 26, 2012
New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for the Congress, ally Trinamool Congress on Tuesday seemed to indirectly question Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's alleged role in the coal block allocation case. Trinamool Congress leader Kalyan Banerjee, who heads the parliamentary committee on Coal and Steel, indirectly questioned the PM's decision on coal block allocation, saying the allocations should have been made through Coal India and state owned companies. In his report,...
01:50 PM, Jun 05, 2012
New Delhi: The Rail Budget fiasco has not just put the UPA in unprecedented embarrassment, it has also exposed the mess within the Trinamool Congress. Mamata Banerjee is now facing defiance within the party that she has never encountered before. Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi on Saturday made it clear to the party high command that she will have to give him an order in writing if she wanted him to...
09:59 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: The exit of Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi looks imminent with internal pressure mounting on him to quit. Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee spoke to Dinesh Trivedi and asked him to put in his papers. "I had suggested an honourable exit for Trivedi. He knows the party doesn't want him," Kalyan Banerjee said. But the Railway Minister has hit back and told Kalyan Banerjee that party supremo Mamata Banerjee...
02:46 PM, Mar 17, 2012
Trinamool leader Kalyan Banerjee called up Dinesh Trivedi asking him to submit his resignation. ...
01:53 PM, Mar 17, 2012
New Delhi: Amid reports that he had offered to quit as they voted in favour of the government's Lokpal Bill in the Lok Sabha, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee on Friday said he has not resigned. "I have not resigned. These reports are thoroughly incorrect. Someone is playing with a motive (by giving out such reports)," Banerjee told PTI when asked about the reports. The reports had said that...
05:44 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Kalyan Banerjee offered to resign from the party on Friday as reports suggested that party leader Mamata Banerjee was likely to issue showcause notices to the MP. Reports suggested that Banerjee was likely to issue showcause notices to party MPs Sudip Bandopadhyay and Kalyan Banerjee for diverging from the party line and supporting the Lokpal Bill. Mamata seemed furious that the two MPs took...
12:41 PM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is likely to issue a showcause notice to two Trinamool Congress (TMC) MPs on Friday. Sudip Bandopadhyaya and Kalyan Banerjee went ahead and supported the Lokpal Bill in Lok Sabha on Thursday without consulting her after meeting Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee. TMC, a key UPA ally, did not support the Lokpal Bill in the Upper House on Thursday. A Trinamool MP had...
08:54 AM, Dec 30, 2011
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress leader Kalyan Banerjee on Tuesday said that the Lokpal Bill encroaches upon the federal structure of the Constitution. "All steps have to be taken to eradicate corruption. For that purpose, a bill is not sufficient. A mentality is required to enforce it. If you are in government, you have to enforce it. If you are in Opposition, you have to point it out. The bill encroaches...
05:36 PM, Dec 27, 2011
Security agencies are probing how Banerjee's car got close to the route. ...
04:52 PM, Jul 23, 2009
