voter suppression

Kolkata, April 11 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed that the BJP tried to get her candidature from the Bhabanipur seat in south Kolkata cancelled by attempting to file two false cases against her, but the bid was foiled by TMC workers and the public.Banerjee, while...

Chakdaha/Bongaon, April 7 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the names of people belonging to the Matua and minority communities have been deleted from the post-SIR voter rolls in the state.Addressing a rally in Chakdaha in the Nadia district, Banerjee said that...

Kolkata, April 7 Nearly 91 lakh voters have been removed from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision exercise in the state, according to data released by the Election Commission.The poll panel has yet to announce the final voter base for the state after the...

Kolkata, April 6 Senior TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee on Monday urged people not to vote for the Congress, claiming it would only strengthen the BJP.Addressing a rally in Jalangi, West Bengal's Murshidabad district, the TMC national general secretary alleged that the Congress has a nexus with...

Tinsukia (Assam), April 6 Union Minister J P Nadda accused the Congress on Monday of treating the tea tribes as a "vote bank" that it "exploited" every five years while not working for their welfare.The tea tribes in Assam are the descendants of the laborers brought to the region during the...

Kolkata, April 6 – A man allegedly committed suicide after his name was removed from the electoral rolls in West Bengal following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, police said on Monday.The deceased, identified as Anarul Sheikh (32), a resident of Nalhati in Birbhum district, was...

Kolkata, April 5 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday warned her party leaders and workers about the possibility of tampering with electronic voting machines (EVMs) and urged them to guard the machines vigilantly.Addressing an election rally in Jiaganj in Murshidabad...

Samserganj (WB), April 5 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday urged people to cast their votes to take revenge for the deletion of people's names from the electoral rolls.The Trinamool Congress chief urged people whose names have been deleted from the voter list during the...

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...

Kolkata, April 2 Just three weeks ahead of the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly election, protests over the Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls spread across several districts of the state on Thursday, with agitators blocking roads and highways over the deletion of names from...

Kolkata, March 31 – Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of attempting to include illegal voters from NDA-ruled states like Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh in West Bengal's electoral rolls, aiming to influence the election outcome in favor of the saffron party.She made...

Debra, March 30 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee raised issues of Bengali identity, the electoral roll revision process, and the TMC's national ambitions during her campaign, stating that after winning the upcoming elections, her party would work to "capture Delhi."Addressing a rally...

Mumbai, March 25 The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) said on Wednesday that the recent elections for the posts of president and vice president of the Satara Zilla Parishad (ZP) have exposed the internal friction within Maharashtra's ruling Mahayuti, transforming what was meant to be a...

Washington, March 18 – A fierce political battle opened in the US Senate as Republicans pushed the SAVE Act as a safeguard for elections, while Democrats denounced it as a voter suppression measure that could block millions of eligible Americans from voting.Senate Majority Leader John Thune...

Patna, March 16 – Leaders of the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) on Monday accused the BJP-led NDA of using money and administrative resources to influence the outcome of the Rajya Sabha elections in Bihar, following the alliance's defeat.Tejashwi Yadav, the national working president of the...

Kolkata, March 9 Trinamool Congress All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday alleged a “bigger conspiracy” by the BJP-led central government, claiming that bank accounts of voters whose names are deleted from the electoral rolls could be frozen in the future.Addressing party...

Kolkata, March 4 Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh criticized the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday over the increasing visits of its leaders from outside West Bengal ahead of the Assembly elections, describing them as "political tourists" and claiming such efforts would not...

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...

In a coordinated political offensive launched a day after the publication of West Bengal's post-SIR electoral rolls, the BJP on Sunday sought to use the deletion of names as a central political platform, alleging that "over 50 lakh infiltrators" had been removed and declaring that "the time has...

Kolkata, March 1 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) aims to mount a strong challenge to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her Assembly constituency, Bhabanipur, in the upcoming Assembly elections.The leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and veteran BJP leader...