Thiruvananthapuram, March 7 – According to a pre-election study by the independent public opinion platform, Vote Vibe, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, V.D. Satheesan, has emerged as the most preferred chief ministerial candidate in Kerala ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections.This...
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Kolkata, March 6 – The political atmosphere in West Bengal intensified on Friday as TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee called for a "social and political boycott" of the BJP, accusing the Election Commission of attempting to disenfranchise over one crore voters through the Systematic Voters'...
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Bhubaneswar, March 5 Two BJD candidates in Odisha – senior leader Santrupt Misra and prominent urologist Datteswar Hota – filed their nominations in the assembly secretariat here on Thursday.Misra and Hota submitted their nomination papers in the presence of BJD president and former chief...
Guwahati, March 5 – The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), led by Badruddin Ajmal, in Assam, suffered a setback on Thursday when its MLA from Cachar district in Southern Assam, Karim Uddin Barbhuiya, resigned ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections.In a statement shared on...
Patna, March 5 – Soon after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar announced his decision to move to the Rajya Sabha, RJD leader Rohini Acharya criticised the JD(U) leader, saying that he is paying the price of "repeated betrayals" of his political allies.Speaking on the social media platform X...
Kolkata, March 4 – An FIR was registered against Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, at a Kolkata police station on Wednesday, based on a complaint accusing him of making communally sensitive statements during the Dol Yatra festival.Adhikari celebrated...
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Kolkata, March 3 CPI(M) West Bengal state secretary Mohammed Salim said that the Left parties will organize a march to the office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) on Wednesday, demanding the publication of an accurate voter list before the upcoming assembly elections.Citing...
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Kolkata, March 3: With the crucial state elections in West Bengal on the horizon and aiming to provide a strong challenge to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her constituency of Bhabanipur in South Kolkata, Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, organized a...
Kolkata, March 2 – A 28-year-old man died of a stroke in Birbhum district, West Bengal, with his family alleging that he had been under stress after his name was placed in the “under adjudication” category in the final electoral rolls published following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR)...
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Kolkata, March 2 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday alleged an “EC-BJP nexus” behind the deletion of 63.66 lakh names from the state’s electoral rolls following the SIR, claiming that the exercise was designed to help the saffron party ahead of the 2026 assembly polls.In her...
Howrah (WB), Mar 2 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asserted that criminals in West Bengal would be "in jail or God knows where" within a month of a BJP government coming to power in the state.However, he said eliminating joblessness in Bengal, from where a significant number of people...
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In Mathurapur, West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday intensified the BJP's campaign against "infiltration," stating that while names are being removed from West Bengal's electoral rolls under the SIR, they will be "removed from the state" once the party comes to power, raising the...
Krishnanagar, March 1 Accusing the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal of aiding infiltrators, Union minister JP Nadda on Sunday claimed that the original inhabitants of West Bengal will become a minority due to this.Addressing a rally in Krishnanagar, in the Nadia district, from where...
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Haveri (Karnataka), March 1 – The internal power struggle within the Congress-led Karnataka government will intensify and reach its final phase after the state budget, said former Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Basavaraj Bommai, referring to the leadership struggle between...
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New Delhi, February 27 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been leading a sustained protest against the Election Commission's Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls, recently claiming that the poll exercise may lead to the removal of 1.2 crore voters.The State...
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New Delhi, February 27 The BJP said on Friday that while a court has acquitted AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal for "lack of evidence" in a case involving the Delhi excise policy, the people of the national capital have already given him a "political response on political grounds," and the...
New Delhi/Jamshedpur, February 26 The Supreme Court on Thursday imposed a "complete ban" on any further publication, reprint, or digital dissemination of the NCERT's Class 8 social science book, as it contains "offensive" content regarding corruption in the judiciary. The court stated that this...
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Kolkata, February 25 – The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Wednesday sought a detailed and comprehensive report from Kolkata Police Commissioner, Supratim Sarkar, regarding the incident involving the heckling of the Leader of the Opposition in...
Kolkata, February 24 – Members of the Adhikar Raksha Committee, a representative body for Booth Level Officers (BLOs), were accused of throwing shoes at the Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal, Suvendu Adhikari, and veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, after he arrived at the office...
Kolkata, February 24 Both the Trinamool Congress and the BJP hailed the Supreme Court's order on Tuesday, allowing the Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court to deploy judicial officers from neighboring Jharkhand and Odisha to deal with claims and objections in the ongoing Special Intensive...
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