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NEW DELHI: Eggs were pelted on Thursday at Udayan Guha, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former West Bengal minister, marking the latest incident of a TMC leader being targeted with eggs after the party was voted out of power in the assembly elections held in April.

Speculations about a possible rift in Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party are rife after OP Rajbhar, state minister and Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party chief, claimed that the party could witness a mass exodus. Rajbhar claimed that senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav had contacted Centre.

After the claims were made by Om Prakash Rajbhar and Keshav Prasad Maurya, questions have started arising about whether a similar split is possible in the Samajwadi Party, like the Shiv Sena (UBT) in Maharashtra and the TMC MPs in West Bengal have formed their own factions.

However, HC did question Speaker's decision during hearing of plea by Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, who was nominated for post by TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

KOLKATA: Former West Bengal minister Aroop Biswas has written to HDFC Bank seeking a freeze on the Trinamool Congress's bank account, in a fresh blow to the par

Former Trinamool Congress (TMC) treasurer Aroop Biswas has sought an immediate freeze on the operation of party bank accounts, citing an ongoing dispute over the authority and control of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), according to a letter addressed to the Branch Manager of HDFC Bank's Central Plaza Branch in Kolkata.

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday refused to pass any interim order in the case challenging the Speaker's decision to make expelled Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Ritabrata Banerjee as Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal assembly.