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New Delhi, March 23 TMC MP Saket Gokhale said on Monday that the NDA government has revised its own 2025-26 Budget Estimate by nearly Rs 10 lakh crore."Rs 10 lakh crore is the difference between what they present in the budget versus what is in the revised estimates," Gokhale said, taking a...

Kolkata, March 23 Congress councillor Santosh Pathak joined the BJP on Monday, a significant boost for the party in central Kolkata ahead of the upcoming state assembly elections.Pathak, who represents Ward 45 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), was welcomed by the BJP's state...

Bhubaneswar, March 23 The BJP's Odisha unit will handle election management work in 36 assembly segments in neighboring West Bengal, which will vote in two phases on April 23 and 29, a senior party leader said.Odisha BJP chief Manmohan Samal, who was recently elected to the Rajya Sabha, said...

New Delhi, March 23 Opposition leaders on Monday criticised the alliance between the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir, saying such moves could divide votes and weaken "secular parties" ahead of the West Bengal Assembly...

Kolkata, March 23 Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar claimed that "rapid demographic changes" under the TMC's rule in West Bengal could soon turn Hindus into a minority in several districts, making it "very difficult" for candidates belonging to the community to win elections in the future.In an...

Kolkata, March 23 TMC leader Jyotipriya Mallick, once considered one of Mamata Banerjee's most trusted allies in North 24 Parganas, believes a "decisive victory" in the assembly elections will be his response to the "conspiracy" that led to his imprisonment in the alleged ration distribution...

Kolkata, March 22 A BJP candidate canvassed on Sunday, carrying a fish – a staple in the Bengali diet – as part of his strategy to counter the ruling TMC's campaign that the saffron camp would ban non-vegetarian food if they were voted into power in West Bengal.The unusual campaign of Dr...

Guwahati, March 22 The Trinamool Congress (TMC) announced its second list of candidates for the Assam Assembly elections on Sunday, naming Congress MLA Sherman Ali Ahmed from the Mandia constituency while withdrawing the candidature of the party's state senior vice-president Dulu Ahmed.The...

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 21 Supporters of the BJP and TMC clashed in Baranagar in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday over alleged tearing of campaign posters and banners, police said.The incident took place at the Tobin Road crossing within the constituency, in the presence of BJP...

Kolkata, March 20 A group of BJP workers staged a protest outside the party's headquarters in Kolkata on Friday over the selection of certain candidates for the upcoming assembly elections.Around 50 party workers from the Beleghata area demonstrated, raising slogans and demanding the immediate...

Kolkata, March 20 The TMC pledged on Friday to raise the minimum daily wage of tea garden workers from ₹250 to ₹300, promising financial uplift for one of the state's largest organized labor segments.In its manifesto for the West Bengal elections, the party said it was committed to extending...

Kolkata, March 20 TMC MLA Humayun Kabir, who has been suspended from the party, said that the proposal to build a new Babri Masjid in Murshidabad, at his urging, could significantly influence the political landscape ahead of the 2026 West Bengal state assembly elections. He asserted that the...

Kolkata, March 20 Suspended TMC MLA Humayun Kabir believes that the emotionally charged issue of constructing a new Babri Masjid in Murshidabad, along with the growing sense of political assertion among Muslims, could influence the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections.In an interview with

Kolkata, March 19 The BJP on Thursday released its second list of 111 candidates for the West Bengal Assembly elections, naming ‘face of the Sandeshkhali agitation’ Rekha Patra and former union minister Nisith Adhikari.Other prominent leaders featured in the list included former party MP Arjun...

Kolkata, March 19 The mother of the victim of the RG Kar case said on Thursday that she wants to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections as a BJP candidate, asserting that she aims to use the political route to remove the TMC government.Speaking to reporters, the deceased doctor's mother...

Kolkata, March 19 The nomination of Rekha Patra, BJP's candidate against alleged atrocities by TMC in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district two years ago, from the adjacent constituency of Hingalganj in the Sundarbans delta for the assembly elections, signified the saffron...

New Delhi, March 19 According to a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), around 32 per cent of sitting Rajya Sabha MPs have declared criminal cases against themselves, while 14 per cent are billionaires.The report is based on an analysis of affidavits of 229 out of 233 Rajya...

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 The mother of the victim of the RG Kar case said on Thursday that she intends to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections as a BJP candidate, asserting that her aim is to use the political route to remove the TMC government.Speaking to reporters, the mother of the deceased...