Incidentally, Asansol was one of the only two constituencies won by the BJP in West Bengal in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. The other constituency, Darjeeling, was won by Ahluwalia who is now up in arms against Sinha in Asansol.
A day after Trinamool Congress leaders were detained for staging a sit-in protest outside the Election Commission's office, the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC has written a letter to West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose highlighting a "grave state of affairs" ahead of the Lok Sabha elections while a
"Today a team of 10 representatives is going to Delhi to appeal to the Election Commission for a level playing fied between all political parties before the polls," TMC MP Dola Sen said speaking to reporters at the Kolkata airport.
Trinamool Congress MP Santanu Sen on Thursday questioned the timing of the Election Commission's directive to immediately halt the delivery of Viksit Bharat messages over WhatsApp and asked "what about 1 crore WhatsApp messages that have already been sent?"
In a scathing attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Shatrughan Sinha denounced the party's recent slogan "Ab ki baar 400 paar," suggesting it stemmed from fear rather than confidence.
In what will be a blow to the ruling Trinamool Congress ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Dibyendu Adhikari, an MP and younger brother of Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, is likely to join the BJP in Delhi on Friday, sources said.
Over the speculations of his joining Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), TMC MP from Barrackpore, Arjun Singh on Tuesday said time will tell whether he will go back to the BJP or not.
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saugata Roy expressed confidence ahead of the upcoming general elections and said that he will try his best to win for the fourth time after his candidature was announced from Dum Dum on Sunday.
Calling the Bharatiya Janata Party "anti-Bengal and anti-Bengali," Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose on Sunday claimed the BJP is the party of "outsiders and zamindars" adding that TMC will not allow the party to come into Bengal and loot people's votes.
TMC leader and MP from Asansol, Shatrughan Sinha on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his visit to Jammu and Kashmir and said that it was an attempt to "divert people's attention from real issues and encash Article 370."