The Supreme Court gave the rival Trinamool factions four weeks to complete their affidavits and documents, after which the Election Commission must decide the party name and symbol dispute within three months.
The Supreme Court has indicated that the Election Commission should decide, expeditiously and on a day-to-day basis, the dispute over the Trinamool Congress name and symbol, on Mamata Banerjee’s plea challenging the ECI’s interim order freezing the symbol amid a rift with a rival faction. Kapil Sibal argued the interim order left the party without an effective remedy in the middle of an election; the Court, noting the bye-election was under way, focused on securing an early final decision.
The Calcutta High Court has extended its interim order permitting the Mamata Banerjee-led faction of the All India Trinamool Congress to operate three party bank accounts that had been frozen, holding that the Election Commission’s interim arrangement on the party name and symbol cannot be treated as a final adjudication of the factional dispute. The order runs until January 29, 2027, or until further orders. The State had opposed the plea.
Trinamool Congress founder Mamata Banerjee has moved the Supreme Court challenging the Election Commission’s interim order freezing the party’s ‘All India Trinamool Congress’ name and ‘Flowers and Grass’ symbol. The petition, filed on September 18, names the ECI and rival faction leader Ritabrata Banerjee as respondents. The Commission has, for now, allotted separate names and symbols to the two factions for the October 6 bypolls.
In an interim order, the Election Commission has recognised two rival groups within the All India Trinamool Congress, one led by Mamata Banerjee and the other by Arup Roy, and barred both from using the party name and the ‘Flowers and Grass’ symbol in the October 6 Nandigram and Rejinagar bypolls. The dispute over who is the real party will be decided under Paragraph 15 of the Symbols Order; both factions must pick fresh names and free symbols.
The Calcutta High Court permitted the Trinamool Congress to hold a meeting led by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee instead of a proposed rally, capping attendance at 2,000 and imposing conditions, after weighing the right to hold political programmes against traffic and public-inconvenience concerns. Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court has permitted the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to […]
The Calcutta High Court declined to let the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC operate four more frozen bank accounts, holding its July 9 Special Officer arrangement, upheld by the Supreme Court, already protects the party. Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday declined to pass any further interim order permitting the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress to operate […]
The Supreme Court indicated it may transfer to the CBI the ED’s plea alleging Mamata Banerjee obstructed its I-PAC search, as her counsel opposed it on maintainability. Hearing on September 2. New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday indicated that it was inclined to transfer to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) the investigation into […]
