New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday came out strongly against the TMC and dismissed Mamata Banerjee's dare as mere posturing. Party leader Salman Khurshid said that Mamata was merely trying to pander to her constituency.
"Individual leaders constituents, people who represent Assembly segments, parliamentarians they all need to survive and they have constituencies they need to pander to or certainly to respond to and some of these things therefore are done as posturing, so that you are at the right side of the expectations of your people and Im sure that Mamataji also has expectations of people who have voted for her and change the ruling establishment after such a long time.
"But then again we are a national party. We have a lot of expectations that go beyond the concerns of only one state. So there will be sometimes a mismatch in expectations, a mismatch in our responses and sometimes a mismatch in answering to our constituencies.
"I don't think we must read too much into these things. I would certainly imagine if we could avoid them good. Even if there are disagreements, we can put them across in closed rooms....
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11:14 AM, Jan 08, 2012
Kolkata: After being sworn in as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee has completed seven days in office on Friday, a week in which she has literally taken the city of Kolkata by storm. In her first week as the Chief Minister, Mamata walked, scolded, and even gave a lesson or two on how to man traffic. Refusing VIP security, Mamata Banerjee took her role of an aam...
08:54 AM, May 27, 2011
New Delhi: After the severe drubbing at the hustings in West Bengal, the CPI on Wednesday said it would witness leadership change at the party Congress next year. However, General Secretary AB Bardhan said the proposed change in leadership had "nothing to do" with the recent debacle suffered by the Left, especially in the strongholds of West Bengal and Kerala. "Our party constitution provides that no General Secretary can continue...
05:06 PM, May 25, 2011
New Delhi: The CPI top brass on Tuesday reviewed the drubbing of the Left Front in the recent Assembly elections in its stronghold of West Bengal terming it as a "serious political setback" and decided to make joint efforts to regain their lost base in the state. A meeting of the party's National Executive heard reports received from its units in West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam and held...
04:35 PM, May 24, 2011
Singur: Mamata Banerjee's first cabinet decision after becoming the West Bengal Chief Minister was to return 400 acres to the unwilling farmers of Singur, also opening a window for the Tatas to set up a plant in the remaining 600 acres. The promise that catapulted Mamata Banerjee into power is soon going to become a reality for thousand of farmers in Singur. But the process may not be that simple....
07:31 AM, May 24, 2011
Communist Party of India-Marxist Politburo member Sitaram Yechury has said that the process of introspection on Left Front's drubbing in West Bengal will conclude with the Party Congress at the end of the year. He did not deny the possibility, when asked in an exclusive interview to Karan Thapar, if the Party Congress could take up the issue of a change in leadership Karan Thapar: Quite possible as the consequence ...
04:41 PM, May 23, 2011
Communist Party of India-Marxist Politburo member Sitaram Yechury has said that the process of introspection on Left Front's drubbing in West Bengal will conclude with the Party Congress at the end of the year. He did not deny the possibility, when asked in an exclusive interview to Karan Thapar, if the Party Congress could take up the issue of a change in leadership Karan Thapar: Quite possible as the consequence...
04:41 PM, May 23, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday allocated portfolios to her newly sworn-in council of ministers, keeping to herself nine departments, including Home, Land and Land Reforms. Her other departments are Information and Cultural Affairs, Health and Family Welfare, Agriculture, Hill Affairs, Minority Affairs and Madrasa Education, Personnel and Administrative Reforms and Power. Besides Banerjee, 35 ministers from Trinamool Congress and two from the Congress took oath on...
07:28 AM, May 21, 2011
Kolkata: Manish Gupta and Amit Mitra, who defeated former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta respectively in the West Bengal Assembly elections, on Friday found berth in the new cabinet headed by Mamata Banerjee. Gupta, former chief secretary, and Mitra, former FICCI secretary general, won from the key constituencies of Jadavpur and Khardah respectively. Rabi Ranjan Chattopadhya, another giant killer who trounced former Industry Minister Nirupam Sen,...
08:00 PM, May 20, 2011
Kolkata: Eighteen years after she vowed never to set foot again in Writers' Building from where she was forcefully evicted while on dharna with a rape victim before Jyoti Basu's chamber, Mamata Banerjee on Friday stepped in as Chief Minister. Banerjee, then a Union minister of state and a Congress leader, had sat on a three-hour long dharna before Basu's chamber with a deaf and dumb rape victim from Nadia...
07:23 PM, May 20, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal's new Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday promised to work day and night for seven days without a break to learn the state of affairs of the administration. Stating that she would not take a holiday on Saturday and Sunday, Banerjee told a huge crowd before her residence before leaving for Raj Bhavan, "I will work day and night at least for the next seven days without...
05:14 PM, May 20, 2011
Scores of people are celebrating as Mamata Banerjee brings an end to over three decades of Left rule in the state. ...
01:08 PM, May 20, 2011
Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has taken over as the first woman chief minister of West Bengal. Mamata, the first non-Marxist to hold the post in 34 years, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor MK Narayanan at the Raj Bhawan in Kolkata at 1.01 PM on Friday. Mamata, dressed in a white sari, took the oath in Bengali. She reached the Raj Bhavan in a...
01:03 PM, May 20, 2011
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee will be the first non-Marxist to hold the post in 34 years. ...
12:33 PM, May 20, 2011
New Delhi: It is a historic moment in West Bengal for more reasons than one - Mamata Banerjee sworn-in as the state's first woman chief minister on Friday. Not just that she is the first non-Marxist leader to take over in 34 years. Exactly a week after she decimated the Left, Mamata Banerjee sworn in as the new Bengal Chief Minister on Friday - a historic moment that was attended...
07:34 AM, May 20, 2011
Nandigram: After March 13, 2007, Nandigram became the epicenter of violence and death in Bengal's politics. It acted as a catalyst that finally resulted in the fall of the Left Front and the rise of Mamata Banerjee like a phoenix. Today, people are celebrating in Nandigram, not just the victory of Mamata Banerjee, but the return of peace. On the fateful day in 2007, 14 unarmed villagers, protesting against land ...
10:43 PM, May 19, 2011
New Delhi: President Pratibha Patil on Thursday accepted the resignation of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee as railway minister and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will now look after the portfolio, an official spokesperson said. Mamata had submitted her resignation earlier on Thursday. She will be sworn in on Friday as West Bengal's first woman chief minister. The prime minister will be assisted by TMC general secretary and Minister of State...
09:30 PM, May 19, 2011
Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee is to be sworn in as the first woman Chief Minister of West Bengal on Friday and, along with her, another 43 ministers will be taking their oath. Mamata Banerjee on Thursday resigned as the Union Minister of Railways and Mukul Roy is likely to be made the Minister of State of Railways until the next Cabinet reshuffle. The number of 43 ministers of West Bengal does...
07:04 PM, May 19, 2011
New Delhi: A day before taking oath as the Chief Minister of West Bengal, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday resigned as the Union Minister of Railways. West Bengal Governor MK Narayanan issued an order appointing Mamata Banerjee as the chief minister on Tuesday. Narayanan on Monday sent a letter to Mamata inviting her to form the government following her party's landslide victory in the Assembly elections. On Sunday,...
05:28 PM, May 19, 2011
Kolkata: A defiance born from the rough and tumble of the streets, a long struggle against an entrenched power system, a stunning blow to the world's longest serving elected Communist government...the script of Mamata Banerjee's life would do any Greek dramatist proud. It will now be depicted in a jatra, West Bengal's popular folk theatre form. Titled "Banglar Kshamatay Eibar Mamata" (Mamata-Now at the Helm in Bengal), the play on...
12:33 PM, May 19, 2011
