west bengal elections

Kolkata, March 18 – A division bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday questioned whether it was also the responsibility of the West Bengal government, along with the Election Commission of India (ECI), to ensure free, fair, and violence-free elections in the state.The division bench...

Kolkata, March 18 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) has mandated the transfer of 13 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, all in the ranks of District Magistrates (DMs), who are also the District Electoral Officers (DEOs).According to a notification issued by the ECI in the...

Kolkata, March 18 The Election Commission on Wednesday ordered a reshuffle of 13 IAS officers in West Bengal, which is heading towards elections, appointing several district magistrates (DMs), who have also been designated as district election officers (DEOs) and entrusted with key...

Kolkata, March 18 The Election Commission ordered the transfer and posting of five IPS officers as deputy inspectors general (DIGs) in West Bengal on Wednesday, after reviewing the preparedness for the upcoming assembly elections, according to an official communication.In a letter to the chief...

Kolkata, March 18: Aiming for complete transparency in the electoral management system for the upcoming two-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal next month, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has now decided to introduce a system for overseeing the daily functioning of the general observers...

Kolkata, March 18 A TMC delegation met West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer Manoj Kumar Agarwal and raised questions regarding alleged discrepancies in the post-SIR electoral rolls and the "delay" in the publication of supplementary lists.The delegation, which included TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and...

Kolkata, March 17 A delegation from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) met with the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, on Tuesday, raising concerns about discrepancies in voter data and the delay in the publication of the supplementary electoral roll.The delegation, which...

New Delhi, March 17 Opposition MPs in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday alleged that the LPG crisis caused by the West Asia conflict has exposed that the Modi government has no energy security policy and raised questions about the establishment of a Rs 1 lakh crore Economic Stabilisation Fund.Finance...

Kolkata, March 17 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Tuesday the appointment of 557 general observers, 188 police observers, and 366 expenditure observers for the upcoming elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry, along with by-elections for eight...

Kolkata, March 17 Newly appointed Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Kumar Nand stated on Tuesday that the force is "determined" to ensure free and fair elections within its jurisdiction during the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections next month.Following the announcement of the assembly poll...

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 17 – The Election Commission of India ordered changes in a series of key administrative and police postings in Kerala ahead of the 2026 Legislative Assembly elections on Tuesday.The state will go to the polls on April 9 to elect 140 new legislators to the...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 16 The Election Commission has removed the West Bengal Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, Director General of Police, and Kolkata police commissioner, among others, in an unprecedented administrative shake-up in the state ahead of the high-stakes assembly polls.The EC's...

Kolkata, March 16 Accusing the Election Commission of failing to create an error-free voter list in West Bengal, the CPI(M) said on Monday that it will file a lawsuit to ensure that the 60 lakh people currently undergoing the ongoing Systematic Identification of Voters (SIV) exercise are "not...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 16 In a move unprecedented in West Bengal's administrative history in terms of its scale, the Election Commission removed the state's bureaucratic and police top brass, including the chief secretary and the DGP, in the run-up to the next month's assembly polls.Although...

New Delhi, March 16 Election Commission officials said on Monday that the major changes in the West Bengal civil and police administration were in line with the assurance given by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to hold free and fair elections in the state.The EC has removed the...

Kolkata, March 16 – A day after the Election Commission announced the poll schedule for West Bengal, senior Trinamool Congress leader and state minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said that the law and order situation in the state is sound, as the election has been reduced to two phases from eight...

New Delhi, March 16 Election Commission officials said on Monday that the major changes in the West Bengal civil and police administration were in line with the assurance given by Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to hold peaceful and violence-free elections in the state.The EC has...

New Delhi, March 16 A day after the Election Commission (EC) announced the schedule for upcoming Assembly polls, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Monday that it seems the polling dates and the structure of the phases have been decided to suit the convenience of the ruling Bharatiya...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 16 In a move unprecedented in West Bengal's administrative history, the Election Commission removed the state's top bureaucrats and police officials, including the chief secretary and the DGP, in the run-up to the assembly polls.The decision for the shake-up was taken...

Kolkata, March 16 The Election Commission (EC) has cancelled the contract of the agency that supplied webcams during the 2021 West Bengal assembly and 2024 Lok Sabha elections after detecting major irregularities in the footage, and has selected three new vendors for the supply of equipment, a...