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Kolkata, March 22 Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari asserted on Sunday that the people of the Nandigram assembly constituency will not accept the ruling TMC candidate, as he was not involved in the anti-land acquisition movement two decades ago.Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district was the...

Kolkata, March 22 – West Bengal Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of being "communal" on Sunday.His comments followed Banerjee's participation in Eid celebrations at Red Road on Saturday, where she launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata...

Kolkata, March 21 – Tension gripped Bhabanipur, the constituency of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Saturday over allegations that posters belonging to the Trinamool Congress had been torn down. The ruling party claimed that the BJP was responsible for the incident.However, the...

Kolkata, March 21 With just a month left for the first phase of the West Bengal assembly elections, the ruling TMC is preparing to launch a comprehensive campaign, led by party supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in North Bengal and her nephew Abhishek in the southern districts, a...

Kolkata, March 21 Police have detained five people in connection with the death of a man who allegedly got trapped inside an elevator at the state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on March 20, a senior police officer said on Saturday.The action followed a complaint filed by the victim's...

Kolkata, March 21 – Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, launched his campaign for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata on Saturday, claiming that there is palpable anxiety among Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, evident in her body language due...

Kolkata, March 20 – Even a couple of hours before the Trinamool Congress announced its candidate list on March 17 for the upcoming two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, no one knew who the party's candidate would be in Nandigram, in the East Midnapore district, against sitting...

Kolkata, March 20 Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday alleged that Mamata Banerjee has violated the election code by using the chief minister's letterhead for political correspondence and demanded immediate action by the Election Commission.He...

Kolkata, March 20 – Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, accused an officer-in-charge of a police station in his native district of East Midnapore of making a WhatsApp call to a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from the district and asking...

Kolkata, March 20 A man died allegedly after getting stuck in the elevator of a state-run R G Kar hospital in north Kolkata on Friday, prompting BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari to term it "murder" and blame Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the incident.While the BJP alleged that corruption in...

Kolkata, March 19 – The CPI(M)-led Left Front announced its second list of candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections on Thursday, comprising 32 names.In the first list released on March 14, the names of candidates for 192 constituencies were announced. Therefore, the names of...

Kolkata, March 19 – Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking a comprehensive list of criminal cases pending against him.Adhikari, who is contesting from the Bhabanipur and Nandigram constituencies this time, has...

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 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 in the morning and...

Kolkata, March 18 Of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal that will go to the polls in two phases next month, the spotlight is firmly on the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency, where a direct contest between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has...

Kolkata, March 18 Senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh said the party has "cornered" Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in her constituency, Bhabanipur, by fielding opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari from the seat in south Kolkata.He asserted that this move has eliminated the space Mamata...

New Delhi, March 17 – Trinamool Congress Chairperson Mamata Banerjee refused to fall for the bait offered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to avenge her 2021 defeat in Nandigram, which forced her to contest from the safer seat of Bhabanipur so that she could continue to be the Chief Minister...

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 Trinamool Congress announced 291 candidates for the two-phase April elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly on Tuesday, effectively dropping almost all the leaders who had been under scrutiny by central agencies in various corruption cases. Nearly a fifth of the...