After receiving a “positive message” from the Congress high command, Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Thursday kept the door open for the alliance by not unilaterally announcing her party candidates’ list, as she had threatened to do.

A number of sons are all set to rise on the political firmament of West Bengal in the coming Assembly election. And no political party can assume the high moral ground and accuse the other of encouraging dynastic rule by favouring sons of influential leaders because this trend is visible in parties of all hues. Thus, offsprings of leaders of Congress, Trinamul Congress and even CPI(M) are being fielded in the six phase polls.

AICC general secretary and Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s political secretary Ahmed Patel called up Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday evening and requested her to defer her decision on seat-sharing till March 21 when Mrs Gandhi is supposed to return from her UK trip. “Didi informed him that it was

Contrary to expectations, the much-awaited talks between Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee here over a seat-sharing deal for the coming Assembly elections failed to produce results late on Tuesday evening.

Encouraged by her successful experiment in the Lok Sabha polls, Mamata Banerjee is again lining up a motley group of film stars, singers, artists and writers for nomination for the coming Assembly election.

The upcoming six-phase Assembly election in West Bengal is not going to be just a routine electoral contest between the CPI(M)-led Left Front and the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance: it will be a battle royale. This crucial election is likely to seal the fate of ruling CPI(M) and bring the 34-year long Left Front rule to an end.

Peeved with the state Congress leadership’s “intransigence” on seat-sharing negotiations, Trinamul Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee has asked her partymen to be ready to go it alone in the crucial Assembly polls in West Bengal if the Congress does not fall in line.

The ruling CPI(M) and the Opposition Trinamul Congress which are desperately wooing Muslim voters are likely to field a record number of Muslim candidates in the coming Assembly elections.

It is now official: Ms Mamata Banerjee will be chief minister of West Bengal if the Trinamul Congress-Congress alliance comes to power in the Assembly polls in April-May, though she herself will not be a candidate in these elections.

Only a week before the commencement of the Budget Session, senior BJP leader L.K. Advani added to the worries of the Congress-led UPA government by announcing that his party will not be content with just a JPC on 2G spectrum allocation scam. Claiming that in the last meeting of the Opposition leaders with Union finance minister