Mahua Moitra

"Centre's Propaganda Machinery Targets Opposition": Mahua Moitra

India News | NDTV News Desk | Wednesday July 24, 2019

The opposition today raised many objections to the government's changes to a counter-terrorism law, which seek to designate individuals as terrorists and allow the National Investigation Agency to go to any state to investigate terror cases.

"Can't Have Cart Before Horse": Mahua Moitra Attacks Aadhaar Over Privacy

India News | ANI | Thursday July 4, 2019

Opposing the Aadhaar Bill 2016 in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha lawmaker Mahua Moitra said that the bill violates the Supreme Court judgment and lacks transparency.

"My Speech Came From Heart": Mahua Moitra On Plagiarism Allegations

India News | Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh | Wednesday July 3, 2019

Mahua Moitra, the Trinamool Congress lawmaker whose comments in parliament on "seven signs of fascism" went viral last week, has hit out at allegations on social media that her debut speech was plagiarized.

7 Signs of Fascism, Says Trinamool's Mahua Moitra In Debut Speech

India News | Edited by Anindita Sanyal | Wednesday June 26, 2019

Mahua Moitra, the Trinamool Congress's new legislator, remained firmly on Twitter trends with her debut speech in parliament where she warned that India is displaying all the signs of Fascism put up in a poster at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

BJP Leader Gagged Over "Offensive" Remarks Against Trinamool Candidate

India News | Reported by Monideepa Banerjie, Edited by Jimmy Jacob | Friday April 26, 2019

Nadia BJP chief Mahadeb Sarkar was today barred from campaigning for 48 hours on charges of making offensive remarks against the Trinamool Congress candidate from West Bengal's Krishnanagar constituency.

Top Court Asks Poll Body To Act On Trinamool Candidate's Complaint

India News | Press Trust of India | Thursday April 25, 2019

The Supreme Court today directed the Election Commission to take action on a complaint by TMC candidate Mahua Moitra against BJP leader Mahadev Sarkar for allegedly making sexually coloured remarks.

Mamata Banerjee's Team Meets Families Of 5 Killed In Assam's Tinsukia

India News | Written by Ratnadip Choudhury | Sunday November 4, 2018

A team of Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders has met the families of those massacred by suspected terrorists in Assam's Tinsukia district. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has expressed anguish over the killings and said an "environment of violence" was prevailing in the country.

Centre Withdraws Notification on Social Media Hub That Was Alleged to Track Citizens

Press Trust of India | Friday August 3, 2018

In a U-turn, the Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was withdrawing its notification proposing to create a social media hub.

Opinion: BJP Chief's Lies About Mamata Banerjee During Bengal Yatra

Opinion | Mahua Moitra | Saturday June 30, 2018

A certain party president is in the midst of a much-publicised yatra to West Bengal, lecturing the rest of us heathens on Tagore's message of love and peace.

Opinion: Arun Jaitley, The Name Is Bond. Dhoka Bond

Opinion | Mahua Moitra | Thursday January 4, 2018

The Orwellian script in the months to come is predictable. Corporate funding for the BJP will continue unabated. For everyone else - each time a company goes to a bank and buys a bond for say, 1 crore, and fills a KYC disclosure form, the details will be passed onto the RBI. The central government, the Finance Ministry and its allied arms such as t...

Opinion: When TV Anchors Become BJP Spokespersons To Spread Fake News

Opinion | Mahua Moitra | Sunday July 9, 2017

The Goebbels doctrine - "Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth" -is also known to psychologists as "the illusion of truth". Under test conditions, people were more likely to rate statements as true when these statements were more familiar. Welcome to the BJP's nation-wide test lab, where the illusion of truth is crafted by swayamsevaks...

Opinion: Modi Leaves It To Trolls To Defend Cattle Ban

Opinion | Mahua Moitra | Thursday June 1, 2017

Modi-ji and his government seem to have left it to the ever-increasing army of BJP trolls to defend the issue in a post-truth world where the fog of hate clouds fact and legality.

Kolkata Police File Chargesheet Against Union Minister Babul Supriyo

India News | Edited by Indroneil B Biswas | Friday March 10, 2017

The Kolkata Police has filed a chargesheet against Union Minister Babul Supriyo at a Kolkata court on basis of a complaint registered by Trinamool Congress legislator Mahua Moitra

Mamata Banerjee Says PM Narendra Modi Has 'Criminal Brain'

India News | Written by Monideepa Banerjie | Wednesday January 11, 2017

Political discourse reached a new low on Tuesday with Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attacking Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying, "He has a criminal brain. Only conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy."

Babul Supriyo Sends Legal Notice To Trinamool's Saugata Roy, Tapas Paul, Mahua Moitra

India News | Edited by Indroneil B Biswas | Tuesday January 10, 2017

Union Minister Babul Supriyo has sent legal notices to Trinamool Congress lawmakers Saugata Roy, Tapas Paul and Mahua Moitra, accusing them of defamation, in relation with the Rose Valley Ponzi scam.