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Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday accused West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury of being an agent of the BJP and held him responsible for obstructing the formation of the opposition INDIA bloc in the State. The purported video showed Mr. Chowdhury, the sitting MP and candidate from Baharampur, addressing a public meeting and saying "it's better to …

Facing repeated protests and ‘go back’ slogans over the past few days allegedly from Trinamool Congress supporters, senior Congress leader and the party’s Baharampur Lok Sabha candidate Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Saturday said that he accepted these protests as a challenge and would ensure that Trinamool drew a blank in Murshidabad district in the Lok Sabha polls. Mr. Chowdhury said …

Veteran MPs Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and S.S. Ahluwalia on Saturday faced protests during the election campaign in their respective constituencies in West Bengal. “Go back” slogans were raised at Baharampur from where five-time MP and West Bengal Congress president Mr. Chowdhury is seeking re-election. Mr. Chowdhury, who is facing former cricketer Yusuf Pathan as the Trinamool candidate, accused the State’s …

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West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was on Friday stopped by police on way to restive Sandeshkhali area, which has been rocked by protests over alleged atrocities on villagers by TMC leaders, citing prohibitory orders. The Congress delegation spearheaded by Mr. Chowdhury, encountered initial hindrance from police officials at Sarberia and subsequently at Rampur, along the path to Sandeshkhali …

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After his remarks directed at Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’ Brien triggered outrage, West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on January 26 issued a public apology for the remarks. “I conveyed my regrets to MR DEREK O’BRIEN for a word inadvertently uttered by me to him as FOREIGNER,” Mr. Chowdhury, also the Congress leader in Lok Sabha, said on …

Taking a U-turn from his earlier stance, Congress's Adhir Chowdhury on Friday apologised to TMC leader Derek O’Brien for calling him a ‘foreigner’. Taking to X, the senior Congress leader said, “I conveyed my regrets to Mr "Derek O’Brien for a word inadvertently uttered by me on him as foreigner.” Sources said the TMC leader accepted the apology. The tension …

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has said that he regrets calling Trinamool Congress MP Derek O'Brien "foreigner". Taking to social media platform X, earlier Twitter, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said, "I conveyed my regrets to MR DEREK O'BRIEN for an word inadvertently uttered by me on him as FOREIGNER." Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's remark had come after Derek O'Brien accused the Congress …

West Bengal Pradesh Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday raised questions about the silence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra. “By remaining silent on Bharat Jodo Yatra, the Chief Minister is supporting the agenda of the BJP,” Mr. Chowdhury said. The remarks by the State Congress president comes a day after Trinamool Congress MP Shatrughan …

There are two agreements that the Centre has signed with various Naga groups and the government should implement them, Leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said in a letter to Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday. Mr. Chowdhury said the late Rajiv Gandhi had made an offer to hold unconditional talks with Naga insurgents in …

The tension between the Congress and the Trinamool Congress flared in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday with Congress president Sonia Gandhi thumping her desk while MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury demanded a court-monitored CBI probe into the death of the party’s councillor in West Bengal. During Zero Hour, Mr. Chowdhury raised the issue of the murder of Congress councilor Tapan Kandu …

The Narendra Modi government is trying to ‘erase’ the memory of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by merging the flame at Amar Jawan Jyoti with that of National War Memorial, Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said on Friday. In the context of the Amar Jawan Jyoti that was built after the 1971 Bangldesh Liberation war, Mr. …

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