west bengal elections

Kolkata, March 5 – A Booth Level Officer (BLO) and an elderly person died in West Bengal on Thursday. The deceased's family members alleged that they died due to the heavy workload and panic caused by the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the voter list in the state.According to...

Kolkata, March 4 The Left parties launched a night-long protest in front of the West Bengal CEO's office here on Wednesday, demanding transparency in the post-SIR electoral rolls in the state.A procession, led by Left Front chairman Biman Bose, was taken out from the Tea Board headquarters to...

New Delhi, March 4, Indian intelligence agencies have warned that cases related to false bomb threats are expected to increase in the coming months, especially with several elections approaching.In the past year, many schools and airlines have received such calls. The airline industry, in...

Kolkata, March 4 – The office of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) has sent a detailed report to the Election Commission of India headquarters in New Delhi, highlighting deliberate negligence on the part of a section of electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral...

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 The Election Commission is likely to send its full bench to West Bengal next week, with chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar leading the delegation on a two-day visit beginning March 9, a senior official said on Monday.A meeting is scheduled for March 10 as part of the...

Kolkata, March 1 The TMC on Sunday accused the EC of carrying out what it described as "silent, invisible rigging" during the voter revision process in West Bengal, alleging that prominent figures such as cricketer Richa Ghosh, ministers Shashi Panja and Md Ghulam Rabbani, and chief secretary...

Garbeta (WB), March 1 Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Sunday that the BJP's "Poriborton Yatra" (Change March) will lead to the overthrow of the Mamata Banerjee regime in West Bengal and bring the "double-engine" BJP government to accelerate development in the state.Before launching...

Kolkata, March 1 – As the final list of voters in West Bengal, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, was published, it showed that there had been no new voter registrations in as many as 99 Assembly constituencies during the entire SIR exercise, from the beginning...

Kolkata, March 1 – The Trinamool Congress protested in Hasnabad, North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, over the "deliberate" removal of names from the final voter list, police said on Sunday.On Saturday night, Trinamool Congress' local leaders and activists set tires on fire on the road...

Kolkata, February 28 – As the final voter list for West Bengal, prepared as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, was published on Saturday, official statistics revealed that the maximum number of cases currently under judicial review are concentrated in three districts...

Kolkata, February 28 The districts of Murshidabad and Malda, which have a Muslim-majority population, have the highest number of voters whose documents have not yet been verified, according to the final electoral rolls issued by the Election Commission following the Systematic Area Verification...

Kolkata, February 28 Nobel laureate economist Amartya Sen's name appears on the post-SIR electoral rolls for West Bengal, and his status has been listed as 'Non-Resident Indian', a senior Election Commission official said on Saturday.This development follows a controversy after the election...

Kolkata, February 28 In a scathing attack on the Election Commission after the publication of post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal removing over 63 lakh names on Saturday, the ruling Trinamool Congress accused the poll panel of "invisible rigging" in collusion with the BJP.The saffron camp...

Kolkata, February 28 According to Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal, the total number of voters in West Bengal's electoral rolls after the revision exercise, including deletions and additions, stood at over 7.04 crore.The electoral roll revision process resulted in the deletion of...

Kolkata, February 28 Voters in West Bengal were left in the dark for most of the day, unable to access information about their voter status on the Election Commission's website and mobile application, following the release of the post-poll voter rolls on Saturday. This was due to a technical...

Kolkata, February 28 The Election Commission (EC) is likely to delete another eight lakh names, in addition to the 58 lakh voters previously removed from the state's draft rolls, taking the total deletions due to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal to around 66 lakh so far...

Kolkata, February 28 The Election Commission's phased publication of the post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal has revealed that the Nadia district has recorded around 2.71 lakh deletions since the exercise began in November, while Bankura has seen a net reduction of 1.18 lakh names...

Kolkata, February 28 The Election Commission (EC) began publishing the post-SIR electoral rolls in West Bengal in phases on Saturday, with figures from the Bankura district indicating that around 1.18 lakh names have been deleted since the exercise commenced.Hard copies of the updated rolls...

Kolkata, February 28 – As the final voter list in West Bengal is set to be published on Saturday, the police have been directed to be prepared for any eventuality.According to a police order issued late Friday night, the battalion headquarters has been advised to ensure maximum mobilization of...