Mamata Banerjee is making efforts to prevent a split in the All India Trinamool Congress after rebel MLAs reportedly broke away, as she personally reaches out to legislators amid an internal leadership crisis and attempts at reconciliation
Veteran politician and former railway minister Mukul Roy died of cardiac arrest at a Kolkata hospital at 71. A Trinamool Congress founder who later joined the BJP, he served as Union minister and was twice elected to the Rajya Sabha
Erra Shekhar expressed his allegiance to the leadership of Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who is working towards the all-round development of the state.
Meanwhile, in West Bengal, elections to the 294-member state Assembly is held in eight phases that started on March 27 with the final round of voting taking place on April 29.
TMC national spokesperson and RS member O'Brien, in his letter, mentioned two precedents when Parliament sessions were adjourned due to polls in states.
"The great soil of West Bengal has nurtured extraordinary individuals who have contributed towards national progress," the Prime Minister said in a series of tweets.
