Kolkata: West Bengal Congress veteran Pradip Bhattacharya claimed on Saturday that his party has still been making "atonement" of expelling Mamata Banerjee from the organisation in 1997. “Congress is still making atonement for expelling Mamata from the party. He told me that Sitaram Kesri gave the order to expel her and he would have to implement it immediately.” The former …
West Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra passed away at a Kolkata hospital in the wee hours of Thursday. Notably, in the late 90's, during Mitra's second term as the party president, Congress was forced to relinquish its standing as the main opposition to the then powerful Left Front regime to the TMC. It was then that Mamata Banerjee, who was …