TMC's Firad Hakim resigns as Kolkata mayor amid rebel MLAs' revolt
In yet another blow to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, senior party leader Firhad Hakim on Friday resigned as the mayor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).
On the final day of Uttarakhand's election campaign, former Chief Minister Harish Rawat slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), claiming that the saffron party was exploiting people's emotions by bringing up the death of General Bipin Rawat.
"Attempts are being made to exploit people's emotions by using General Rawat's name. However, there are soldiers in my family as well. Uttarakhand has been a land of conflict and patriotism, and we all have patriotism in our hearts," he stated.
In yet another blow to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, senior party leader Firhad Hakim on Friday resigned as the mayor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC).
A political crisis is unfolding in West Bengal as twenty-three Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha members of Parliament are in contact with a rebel faction of the party, according to sources.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge filed his Rajya Sabha nomination at the Vidhana Soudha, accompanied by senior party leaders on Friday.
A day after DMK, now the Shiv Sena UBT is unlikely to attend the upcoming INDIA bloc meeting scheduled for June eight in Delhi, according to sources.