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).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi receives a grand welcome in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, with a massive roadshow ahead of inaugurating the South India Natural Farming Summit. This special report covers the Prime Minister's visit, where he is set to release the 21st installment of the PM Kisan Yojana, amounting to ₹18,000 crore for nine crore farmers, and the surrounding political dynamics involving the BJP's alliance with the AIADMK and tensions with the ruling DMK. Reporter Pramod Madhav states, 'Even though the Prime Minister is coming there to play part in a farmer's summit, the initiation of the election is also very clearly evident in the campaign as such on the ground'. The visit is positioned as a significant outreach to farmers and a show of strength for the NDA alliance in the state, with both BJP and AIADMK flags visible at the event.
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.