west bengal elections

Kolkata, March 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Sunday that Narendra Modi "should resign first," since he became Prime Minister with the votes of the people whose names were allegedly being "deleted arbitrarily" during the voter verification process by the Election...

New Delhi, March 8 The second half of Parliament's budget session is set for a tumultuous start on Monday, with the Lok Sabha scheduled to take up a resolution sponsored by the opposition seeking the removal of Speaker Om Birla.The ongoing conflict in West Asia is also likely to be a prominent...

Kolkata, March 8 – The special intensive revision of electoral rolls in West Bengal has introduced a new political variable ahead of the assembly polls, with Election Commission data showing a marginally sharper decline in women electors than men – a shift analysts say could influence outcomes...

Kolkata, March 8 Three assembly constituencies bordering West Bengal's Cooch Behar district – Dinhata, Sitai, and Sitalkuchi – together account for the highest number of voters whose names are currently "under review" in the district, election officials said.According to the Chief Electoral...

Kolkata, March 8: Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, targeted the Mamata Banerjee government on Sunday for violating norms after a district administration assigned the handling of postal ballots to the West Bengal Police Welfare Organisation.Using his X handle...

Kolkata, March 6 – Around 7.5 lakh cases of judicial review of voter documents classified under the "logical discrepancy" category have been completed by Friday evening, informed the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal."A total of 200 more judicial officers from...

Kolkata, March 6 A significant backlog in the disposal of "under adjudication" cases in West Bengal's post-SIR electoral rolls has raised concerns about whether a large number of electors would be disenfranchised due to the limited time available for scrutiny before the upcoming assembly...

Kolkata, March 6: The 200 judicial officers from the neighboring states of Jharkhand and Odisha will arrive in West Bengal by Saturday and begin their work on March 9, as part of the Election Commission of India's (ECI) ongoing exercise to adjudicate voter documents identified under the "logical...

New Delhi, March 5 The Congress on Thursday demanded that the assembly elections in West Bengal should not be announced until all cases currently under adjudication as part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls are disposed of.The opposition party made the demand after a...

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...