bengal politics

Onda (WB), April 11 Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated on Saturday that if the BJP is voted to power in West Bengal, it will end the TMC's "syndicate rule," and that those involved in atrocities against women in the state will be brought to justice.Addressing a BJP rally in Onda in the...

Kolkata, April 11 Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to address three rallies in West Bengal, which is heading for elections, on Saturday, as the BJP intensifies its campaign.Modi will hold the rallies in Katwa in Purba Bardhaman, Jangipur in the Muslim-majority district of Murshidabad...

Kolkata, April 10 – The fledgling alliance between Humayun Kabir's Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) and Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM collapsed on Friday, just weeks after it was formed, following the surfacing of a video purportedly showing Kabir allegedly discussing a multi-crore deal with the BJP...

Kolkata, April 10 For years, the BJP’s relationship with the Matua refugees in Bengal was based on a single promise: if you support the party, we will resolve the long-standing uncertainty about your citizenship.However, the final electoral rolls following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)...

Jalpaiguri (WB), April 8 BJP national president Nitin Nabin led a roadshow in the town of Mainaguri in the Jalpaiguri district on Wednesday, in support of the party's candidates in the West Bengal Assembly elections.The streets were filled with slogans of "Jai Mataji" and other chants in...

Kolkata, April 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticized the BJP and the Election Commission over the deletion of voters' names during the SIR exercise and said her party would move a court again to resist the removal of electors from the electoral rolls.Her comments...

Kolkata, April 8 – The BJP announced on Wednesday that Rakesh Singh would be its candidate for the Kolkata Port Assembly constituency, days after he received bail from the Calcutta High Court. This move has raised eyebrows in the political circles.There were speculations that the Bengal BJP...

Habra (WB), April 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday extended her full support to long-time political associate Jyotipriya Mallick, claiming he was targeted in a money laundering case due to a CPI(M) conspiracy.Mallick, who held the Food and Supplies portfolio in the...

In Cooch Behar, on April 5, Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighted the BJP's campaign against lawlessness in West Bengal, focusing on the incident in Malda where judicial officers were held hostage. He accused the TMC of "sponsored lawlessness" and portrayed the assembly elections as a battle...

New Delhi, April 4: In the lead-up to the West Bengal Assembly elections, the BJP has welcomed recent action against Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders accused of intimidating voters, calling it a sign that the elections will be "free and fair."Amit Malviya, Chief of the BJP's Information...

Kolkata, April 2 – Tension escalated outside the office of the state's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Thursday as Trinamool Congress workers and supporters staged a protest over multiple allegations regarding Form 6.The protest began on Tuesday. The situation became tense on Thursday as...

Kolkata, April 2 The Trinamool Congress described Thursday's multi-city searches at premises linked to the executives of political consultancy firm I-PAC as the BJP's "desperate attempt" to derail the TMC's election campaigns in West Bengal.The TMC, a client of I-PAC, accused the BJP...

Kolkata, April 2 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday turned BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s nomination filing from Bhabanipur into a high-voltage political spectacle, claiming he had a “shortcut” to bring about “paribartan” (change) in West Bengal: defeating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in...

Kolkata, March 31 In response to the TMC's allegations of electoral roll manipulation through applications under Form 6 in the run-up to the Assembly polls, West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal clarified on Tuesday that his office has no software to add or delete names of any...

On March 31, in New Delhi, the decision of tennis legend Leander Paes to switch to the BJP after a five-year association with the Trinamool Congress once again brought sportsspersons in politics into the spotlight.While some rose to become cabinet ministers, others achieved mixed results...

Kolkata, March 31 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP was trying to include illegal voters from NDA-ruled Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh in the state's electoral rolls to influence the election outcome in favor of the saffron party...

New Delhi/Kolkata, March 31 The BJP on Tuesday released its fourth list of 13 candidates for the West Bengal assembly polls, fielding recent Congress entrant Santosh Pathak from Chowringhee and Union minister Shantanu Thakur's wife Soma from the Matua-dominated Bagda seat, as it sought to...

Nandigram, March 31 – Ahead of the highly anticipated West Bengal Assembly elections, residents of Nandigram on Tuesday said that this time the BJP will come to power with a huge majority, and the Trinamool Congress government, which has been accused of corruption, will be completely swept away...

Kolkata, March 29 Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Sunday accused the BJP and Humayun Kabir’s Aam Janata Unnayan Party of seeking votes in the name of religion while ignoring basic issues such as livelihood and food.Addressing a rally in support of the TMC candidate in the Naoda Assembly...

Kolkata, March 28 – Union Home Minister, Amit Shah, will release a "chargesheet" or a "White Paper" against the West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress on Saturday.The Union Home Minister will address the media at 12 noon on Saturday and will then release the "White Paper".A...