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Mahua Moitra, Derek O’Brien and other TMC MPs dragged away by Delhi Police from their protest outside HM Amit Shah’s residence over IPAC raid

OpIndia Staff - 9 January, 2026

TMC MPs including Mahua Moitra and Derek O’Brien were dragged and carried away by law enforcement authorities after they held a sit-in protest outside...

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TMC MPs, silent and indifferent during Murshidabad anti-Hindu violence, now tour Jammu and Kashmir to assess the situation after Pahalgam terror attack

Shraddha Pandey - 23 May, 2025

The TMC leaders met Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as visited the residence of National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah. The TMC delegation met the family of retired army officer Amarjeet Singh who was killed in Pakistani shelling on 8th May.

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Delhi Court orders 10 TMC leaders including Derek O Brien, Saket Gokhle, Sagarika Ghosh and others to submit bail bonds in illegal protest outside...

ANI - 30 April, 2025

The Rouse Avenue court on Wednesday asked 10 TMC leaders to furnish bail bonds in a case linked to a protest outside the Election Commission of India (ECI).

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TMC’s habitual engagement in duplicity and capriciousness: BJP responds to Derek O’Brien’s allegations on frozen MGNREGA funds, says payments will be made after Bengal...

OpIndia Staff - 4 August, 2024

BJP clarifies that MGNREGA funds have been frozen for West Bengal due to corruption charges

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TMC MP Derek O’Brien suspended from Rajya Sabha for disorderly conduct

OpIndia Staff - 14 December, 2023

Vice President and Chairman of Rajya Sabha Jagdeep Dhankhar suspended TMC MP Derek O'Brien for his unruly behaviour inside the House.

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TMC challenges PM Modi, says he won’t hoist flag from Red Fort in 2024: Here is what Derek O’Brien had said before 2019 elections

OpIndia Staff - 15 August, 2023

TMC MP Derek O'Brien and other leftist-liberals predicted that the BJP would lose in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, but Modi returned to power with an even larger mandate than in 2014

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Derek O’Brien allowed to attend RS after Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar changes his decision, had earlier announced his suspension over ‘unruly behaviour’

OpIndia Staff - 8 August, 2023

RS Chairman Jagdeep Dhankar first announced that Derek O'Brien has to withdraw from the House but later let him back into the House

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TMC MP Derek O’Brien suspended from Rajya Sabha for the entire Monsoon session: Details

OpIndia Staff - 8 August, 2023

The suspension came after a motion was moved by Union Minister Piyush Goyal against Derek O'Brien "for continuously disturbing the proceedings of the House, disobeying the Chair and continuously and wilfully creating a disturbance in the House."

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TMC’s Saket Gokhale arrested by Gujarat police for spreading fake news relating to Morbi bridge collapse tragedy

OpIndia Staff - 6 December, 2022

Derek O'Brien claimed that the arrest was because of the fake news shared by Gokhale in context of Morbi bridge collapse where the TMC leader had claimed that ₹30 crore was spent on PM Modi’s Morbi visit.

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TMC’s Derek O’Brien steps in to give legitimacy to The Wire’s Meta joke that turned out to be a hoax

Nirwa Mehta - 12 October, 2022

O'Brien would rather put his bets on trash published by dubious platforms with questionable credibility and create noise in the Parliament so that the cries of people back home in West Bengal are stifled.

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