Kolkata, Apr. 22: Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee filed her nomination for the South Kolkata parliamentary constituency on Wednesday.

Her main CPI (M) opponent, Rabin Deb also filed his nomination today.

Banerjee declared total assets of Rs. 4, 73, 193.56, including Rs. 28322 in cash and three bank deposits of Rs. 74, 589.85, Rs. 29,

Kolkata, Apr. 3 : Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has said that she will not ride Tata's Nano car because it was "manufactured with the people''s blood."

"I will not ride the Nano which has been manufactured with the people''s blood," Banerjee said in Kolkata.

Mamta's party's anti-land acquisition agitation led to the shifting of Tata''s Nano manufacturing factory from West Bengal.

When asked if she would ever ride the Nano, she said, "It is my choice in which car I travel."

Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee’s desperate bid to forge an anti-Left alliance with the Congress has come in for criticism from her own partymen.

At least four Trinamool leaders have openly asked Mamata to start poll preparations independently instead of waiting indefinitely for an alliance. Political observers too feel, that strictly going by statistics of last Lok Sabha elections, the alliance would help protect Mamata’s place in her traditional constituency rather than improving Trinamool’s poll prospects in the state.

Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee won the Nandigram by-election by steering the CPM and other left parties, while the young Congress candidate Masum Benajir Noor retained her mother’s, late Rubi Noor’s seat at Sujapur (Malda). The results of these elections were declared on Friday.

In these two by-elections, both the Trinamool Congress and the Congress fought jointly on a common understanding in order to overcome the CPM and other left parties and they were successful in their project.

Kolkata, Jan 1 : Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee has congratulated Sheikh Hasina and her Awami League-led alliance on its victory in the elections.

Addressing media persons here last evening, Banerjee termed Hasina''s landslide victory in Bangladesh as a welcome change for democratic politics, and hoped that such trends would also be witnessed in West Bengal.

"As for West Bengal, we want a change for development, change for the people and West Bengal. It should be better for the country," said Banerjee.

The chairman of Ruia Group, Pawan Kumar Ruia met Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to discuss the issue of Dunlop factory closure in Sahagunj, West Bengal. Ruia group had suspended the work at the unit on November 30, amid political and workforce opposition. It has been demanding a loan of Rs 100 crore from the West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation (WBDIC) but the government has yet to respond.