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Kolkata, April 5 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday used the Malda incident, where judicial officers were surrounded, as the central theme of the BJP's campaign against lawlessness in West Bengal, accusing the TMC government of running a "mafia raj" and framing the 2026 assembly elections as...

Kolkata, April 5 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the TMC on Sunday over the Malda incident, in which judicial officers were surrounded by a mob for hours, calling it an example of the ruling party's "rampant lawlessness" and alleging that the state's ruling party was...

Kolkata, April 5 Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan alleged on Sunday that West Bengal is gradually moving out of constitutional control and claimed that the state is no longer safe under Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, citing the Malda incident as an example.The remarks came amid...

Kolkata, April 4 TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Saturday targeted the BJP for its "double-engine" pitch, saying one engine runs on misusing democratic institutions and the other on recruiting "local agents" like AIMIM, ISF and AJUP to stoke "communal discord".In a clever turn of phrase, he...

KISHTWAR, APRIL 03: Assistant Commissioner of Revenue (ERO) M. Idrees Lone chaired a review meeting to assess the progress of the Panchayat Electoral Roll Revision 2026 in Kishtwar, including the Palmar and Trigam blocks.He reviewed the verification of voter data, the inclusion of eligible...

New Delhi, April 4 The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday encouraged voters to use the ECINET platform to access information about candidates’ educational qualifications and criminal antecedents for the upcoming Assembly Elections and by-elections in 2026.In a press release, the...

Mumbai, April 4 Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi leader Prakash Ambedkar on Saturday claimed that the names of as many as 2.9 crore voters could be deleted in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Maharashtra's electoral rolls.He further claimed that such a large-scale deletion of names could directly...

In Kolkata, on April 3, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee stated that his party would stand by those whose names were deleted from the electoral rolls after the publication of supplementary electoral rolls, and would also address alleged attempts to deny genuine voters their rights.He accused the...

Gazole (WB), April 3 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday mocked Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s announcement that he would be stationed in the state for 15 days, stating that even 365 days would not help the BJP because “the people of Bengal do not like you.”Addressing a rally...

Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal, blamed the AIMIM and ISF for the gherao of judicial officers in Malda district and accused the Congress and the BJP of instigation.She stated that the mastermind behind Wednesday's gherao of the judicial officers in Mothabari, Malda district...

Harirampur (WB), April 3 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday blamed the AIMIM and ISF for the siege of judicial officers in Malda district and accused the Congress and the BJP of instigation.Stating that the mastermind behind Wednesday's several-hour siege of judicial officers...

Kolkata, April 3 The Election Commission has released the eighth supplementary list and stated that it has disposed of approximately 52 lakh cases under adjudication in West Bengal, expressing hope that the process will be completed within the next few days, in line with the directions of the...

Kolkata, April 2 The Election Commission on Thursday released the eighth supplementary list and said it has disposed of around 52 lakh cases under adjudication in West Bengal, expressing hope that the process would be completed within the next four days, in line with the directions of the...

Kolkata, April 2 – Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi campaigned in Rampurhat, West Bengal, on Thursday in support of BJP candidates, calling for a "change" in the state.He stated, "Anga has changed, Kalinga has changed, now Bengal will also change."On that day, four BJP candidates...

Kolkata, April 2 Police arrested at least 17 people on Thursday, including a poll candidate, for their alleged involvement in the gherao of seven judicial officials in Malda district, West Bengal, over the deletion of names from the electoral rolls, a senior officer said.Maulana Shahjahan Ali...

Kolkata, April 2 The Election Commission has processed nearly 49.63 lakh voter records so far as part of the ongoing Systematic Area Verification (SAV) of electoral rolls, officials said on Thursday.The seventh supplementary list was released on Wednesday evening, although the exact number of...

New Delhi/Kolkata, April 2 Observing that West Bengal is the "most polarized state," the Supreme Court on Thursday delivered a scathing indictment of the state administration after seven judicial officers involved in the voter revision exercise were held hostage by protesters in Malda district...

New Delhi, April 2 The Supreme Court on Thursday took serious exception to an incident in West Bengal's Malda district where judicial officers deputed for work relating to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were allegedly surrounded and attacked, observing that it was a...

New Delhi, April 2 Trinamool Congress MP Nadimul Haque said in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that the people of the country have no faith in the BJP, as he questioned the government's intent in amending 79 central laws through a single law – The Jan Vishwas (Amendment and Provisions) Bill, 2026...

Mumbai, April 2 A delegation from the Maharashtra Congress met Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S Chockalingam on Thursday and demanded that the upcoming Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state be carried out in a fair and transparent manner.The State Congress president...