Mamata Banerjee

The Supreme Court has listed a 14-year-old criminal case filed against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s election agent S.K. Supian for hearing on April 9.

The Division Bench of Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Krishna Murari said the Calcutta High Court can continue hearing the matter on merits.

West Bengal represents the BJP’s final frontier but the party heavyweights are up against a gutsy street fighter in Mamata Banerjee. The elections have become a volatile mix of horse trading and power games and, to paraphrase the TMC slogan, the game is on. The final score will have a major impact on national politics.

Banerjee told the media that the party has given tickets to eminent personalities from arts, sports, media and culture.

This development comes two days after the Bengal court issued summons to Amit Shah to appear either personally or through a lawyer before it on February 22

Politics in Bengal had always been doughty and blustery. Recently, with the BJP’s onslaught on Mamata Banerjee’s rule, it has become an inferno.

The long-standing heated exchange between the governor and the TMC government over political issues has caused a constitutional impasse. What lies ahead?

A plea has been filed before the Supreme Court seeking directions to the West Bengal government to provide protection to opposition leaders in the state to ensure that a free and fair Assembly election is conducted in 2021.

Fugitive leader of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM), Bimal Gurung, yesterday appeared in public for the first time in three years and announced his severing of ties with the BJP-led NDA and offered his full support to the Trinamool Congress.

The Calcutta High Court has upheld the state government’s notification which provided for disbursement of Rs 50,000 to each of the organising committees for Durga Puja in the state.