Communist party demands action after its MLA attacked by Trinamool Congress

September 23rd, 2009 KOLKATA - A 12-hour shutdown was observed Wednesday in West Bengal's Nandigram following the killing of a local Trinamool Congress leader by a group of unidentified persons. "The shutdown is peaceful.

August 1st, 2009 KOLKATA - Two Trinamool Congress activists received bullet injuries when they were attacked by a group of unknown assailants Saturday in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district, police said. The incident sparked tension in the area as irate Trinamool Congress workers staged a road blockade before the local police station demanding the immediate arrest of the offenders.

May 21st, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Trinamool Congress Thursday demanded the imposition of president's rule in West Bengal, alleging there was complete breakdown of the constitutional machinery and people had lost confidence in the Left Front government there. 'The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)-led Left Front government has to come to an end in West Bengal.

May 17th, 2009 KOLKATA - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress president Sonia Gandhi have congratulated Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee for her 'historic' victory over West Bengal's ruling Left Front in the Lok Sabha polls. 'The prime minister rang me up yesterday (Saturday).

May 11th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee Monday questioned the political standing of the Trinamool Congress and said he doubted whether it would stay with the Congress coalition after the Lok Sabha elections. 'I cannot presume that Trinamool will stay with the Congress after the elections.

May 6th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Congress spokesperson Veerappa Moily Wednesday said his party will not form any alliance that will upset its poll partner Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. 'We won't do anything which will upset the Trinamool,' Moily told reporters here.

March 25th, 2009 AGARTALA - Despite a seat-sharing arrangement with the Congress in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress will contest alone the Lok Sabha elections in Tripura. The Trinamool Congress Wednesday said it has finalised its candidates for the two Lok Sabha constituencies in the Left ruled state.

March 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday released her party's manifesto for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. "The party aimed at forming a secular, progressive and stable government at the centre which would focus on economic reforms, industry, agricultural development and adopt pro-people policies," the election manifesto said.

March 24th, 2009 KOLKATA - After days of rumblings among the grassroot workers of the Congress and Trinamool Congress about the alliance between the two parties, leaders of both outfits Tuesday called for a united effort to defeat the state's Communist-led Left Front in the Lok Sabha polls. 'I know there is discontent among Congress workers who feel our party has got fewer number of seats than it deserves.

March 18th, 2009 KOLKATA - Activists of Trinamool Congress and Congress party organised a yagna here for the success of the alliance of these two parties in the ensuing elections to the Lok Sabha. This was consequent to the finalisation of the tie-up and sharing of seats between the two parties in West Bengal.

March 16th, 2009 KOLKATA - West Bengal Transport Minister and senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Subhas Chakraborty has said that 700-odd Trinamool Congress workers have joined the CPI-M in Howrah district's Uluberia Lok Sabha constituency. 'Around 700 Trinamool Congress activists have joined our party (CPI-M) before the Lok Sabha polls, as they were dissatisfied with the Trinamool's ideology,' Chakraborty claimed Saturday while addressing a political gathering.

March 7th, 2009 KOLKATA - Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Friday said her party was ready with the candidates' list for the coming Lok Sabha polls, but revealed her impatience at the Congress' delay in replying with seat adjustment details. 'I am waiting for the Congress' reply as they asked for 48 hours' time.

March 2nd, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal based Trinamool Congress and the Congress party Sunday night announced that they have formed an alliance to jointly fight the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in the communist ruled state. The decision to form the alliance was reached after a 70-minute meeting between West Bengal Congress president Pranab Mukherjee and Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee.

February 27th, 2009 KOLKATA - The electoral battle in the coming Lok Sabha elections will be tough for the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) if the Congress and the state's main opposition Trinamool Congress formed an alliance in West Bengal, veteran communist leader Jyoti Basu said here Friday. 'It'll be a tough for us (CPI-M) if there is an alliance,' Basu told reporters at the party headquarters at Alimuddin Street here.

February 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal Congress Legislature Party (CLP) Thursday wrote to the state assembly speaker demanding action against a Congress legislator who joined the Trinamool Congress in the recent past. 'We've written to state assembly Speaker Hasim Abdul Halim demanding removal of Congress legislator Sudip Bandopadhyay from the post of chairman of the state assembly's Standing Committee on Commerce and Industries,' state CLP leader Manas Bhuniya told mediapersons here Thursday.