bengal assembly elections

New Delhi, March 21 Eid al-Fitr was celebrated across India on Saturday with special prayers for peace, progress, and brotherhood at large gatherings in mosques and eidgahs, followed by peaceful protests in several parts of the country condemning the US-Israel attacks on Iran and seeking an...

Kolkata, March 15 From securing just about 4% vote share in the 2011 assembly elections to emerging as the principal opposition with over 38% vote share in 2021, the BJP has significantly expanded its political presence in West Bengal. The party currently has 12 Lok Sabha MPs and more than 65...

Kolkata, March 14 Senior Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee alleged that West Bengal minister Shashi Panja was injured in the attack by BJP workers at her residence in the city on Saturday, ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally, and called the incident an assault on every woman...

Kolkata, March 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that voter deletions in the post-SIR electoral rolls were aimed at dividing the state.Addressing a gathering during her demonstration against the alleged arbitrary deletions, Banerjee accused the BJP of depriving...

Kolkata, March 6 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee began a protest sit-in here on Friday to protest alleged arbitrary deletions from the post-SIR electoral rolls, escalating the TMC's confrontation with the Election Commission ahead of the state assembly polls.Launching the protest at...

Kolkata, March 5 West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose resigned from his post on Thursday evening, triggering a fresh political storm in the state just days before the schedule for the crucial assembly elections is expected to be announced.The sudden development, which came while Bose was in...

Kolkata, March 5 Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami alleged on Thursday that the image of West Bengal, the land associated with luminaries like Swami Vivekananda, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, and Subhas Chandra Bose, has been tarnished by the "misgovernance" of...

Kolkata, March 4 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday claimed that the number of Muslims killed in West Bengal during the last three years was higher than in any other Indian state.“I request people from the Muslim community to calculate the number of people from their community who...

Kolkata, February 26 – Sumitra Chattopadhyay, a fifth-generation descendant of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, the author of India's national song, "Vande Mataram," and the iconic Bengali poet and writer, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday.He joined the BJP at the party's state...

Kolkata, February 26 – According to an initial estimate by the Election Commission of India (ECI), approximately 2,500 companies of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) would be needed if the Bengal Assembly elections are held in a single phase.The proposal for a single-phase election had...

Kolkata, February 23 Former railway minister Mukul Roy, once considered Mamata Banerjee's most trusted lieutenant and the principal strategist of the TMC, died of a cardiac arrest at a private hospital here early Monday.He was 71 years old, and is survived by his son, Subhranshu Roy.He...

Kolkata, February 23 Veteran politician and former railway minister, Mukul Roy, died of a cardiac arrest at a private hospital here on Monday, his family said.He was 71 years old.Roy passed away at 1:30 am at the private hospital, his son, Subhranshu Roy, said, adding that he had been in a...

Kolkata, February 18 With numbers firmly in its favour, the ruling TMC is set to win four of the five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, while the opposition BJP is expected to secure one, as the announcement of the election schedule triggered political maneuvering and administrative...

Kolkata, February 14 Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Saturday that infiltration had become a serious issue in West Bengal and alleged that the state was being handed over to infiltrators.Addressing a BJP teachers' cell conference here, the Union education minister also pitched the...