bengal politics

Kolkata, March 26 – Ram Navami in West Bengal on Thursday turned into a political contest, with the BJP highlighting its Hindutva agenda and the ruling TMC also celebrating the festival to prevent the saffron camp from dominating the religious narrative during the high-stakes assembly elections...

Naxalbari, March 25 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that eight lakh names have been deleted from the first supplementary list of 27 lakh voters whose voting eligibility was being assessed as part of the SIR exercise.Addressing an election rally in Naxalbari in...

Kolkata, March 25 BJP president Nitin Nabin held a series of organizational and strategic meetings in Kolkata to strengthen the party's preparations for the 2026 assembly elections.Leaders of the BJP's state unit said that Nabin's two-day visit, which began on Tuesday, was not merely a routine...

Kolkata, March 24 CPI(M) leader Dipsita Dhar expresses disappointment that the mother of the victim in the RG Kar hospital rape-murder case wants to contest the West Bengal assembly elections on a BJP ticket, but maintains her commitment to seeking justice for the traumatized medical intern...

Kolkata, March 22 TMC Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghose said that the anti-incumbency in West Bengal, which was localized, has largely been obscured by the fallout of the SIR exercise, giving the party a distinct advantage over the BJP in the upcoming assembly elections.The...

Kolkata, March 19 Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, launched the BJP's campaign for the high-profile Bhabanipur seat in south Kolkata on Thursday, where he is set to challenge Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Adhikari arrived in Kolkata from Delhi in the...

Kolkata, March 19 – Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, accused the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the state of engaging in "atrocities" on Thursday.He made the accusation upon his arrival in the state's Bhabanipur constituency to...

Kolkata, March 18 Signs of simmering rebellion emerged within the ruling TMC a day after the party unveiled its candidate list for the West Bengal assembly polls, with several sitting MLAs and leaders openly expressing resentment over being denied tickets in what the party describes as a...

Kolkata, March 18 Three-time Trinamool Congress MLA from Amdanga, Rafiqur Rahman, urged the party leadership on Wednesday to reconsider its decision to field a new candidate from the constituency.Protests erupted after the party announced Peerzada Kasem Siddiqui as its candidate for the seat...

Kolkata, March 18 – After a prolonged period of internal party conflict, senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh has regained prominence after the party nominated him from his preferred constituency, Kharagpur Sadar, in the West Midnapore district, for the upcoming Assembly elections.Speaking to...

Kolkata, March 17 In one of its biggest candidate reshuffles in recent elections, the ruling TMC dropped 74 sitting MLAs, nearly a third of its legislative strength, while announcing candidates for 291 of the 294 West Bengal assembly seats on Tuesday, signaling a calibrated anti-incumbency...

Kolkata, March 17 The political rivalry in Nandigram that defined West Bengal’s 2021 assembly polls is set to return to the forefront, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her former protégé, Suvendu Adhikari, competing in Bhabanipur, effectively making it the likely key battleground for the...

Kolkata, March 17 – The Trinamool Congress released its first list of 291 candidates on Tuesday for the two-phase April elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, setting the stage for a fierce battle in the Bhabanipur constituency in South Kolkata, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...

Kolkata, March 17 Swapan Dasgupta, a leader of the BJP, has been nominated from Rashbehari, a wealthy neighborhood in South Kolkata, for the upcoming assembly elections. This nomination from Tarakeswar, a relatively quiet area in the Hooghly district of West Bengal, is seen as a homecoming for...

New Delhi, March 16 The Trinamool Congress has written a third letter to President Droupadi Murmu seeking an appointment to "inform her about the West Bengal government's welfare initiatives" after its earlier requests for a meeting were turned down, party sources said.The developments came in...

New Delhi/Kolkata, March 16 – The BJP on Monday released its first list of 144 candidates for the West Bengal assembly elections, setting the stage for the electoral battle. The list includes Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition, who is contesting from both Nandigram and Bhabanipur...

Kolkata, March 12: With the former head of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the former Governor of Tamil Nadu, R.N. Ravi, taking oath as the 22nd Governor of West Bengal on Thursday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's first message to him during the interaction after the oath ceremony was that...

Kolkata, March 10 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday called off her protest against the "flawed SIR" on its fifth day, saying the demonstration would be temporarily suspended after the Supreme Court ordered the establishment of an appellate mechanism regarding voter list...

Kolkata, March 9 Alleging that the BJP and "its agencies" were distributing leaflets at the site of her protest in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday directed TMC workers to apprehend them and hand them over to the police.Banerjee, who has been staging the protest at Dharmatala...

New Delhi, March 7 Accusing the West Bengal government of disrespecting President Droupadi Murmu during her visit to the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said it was "shameful and unprecedented" and that the TMC dispensation has "truly crossed all limits".The Prime Minister was...