west bengal politics

Baruipur (WB), March 11 A local BJP leader was seriously injured after being shot, in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal on Wednesday, police said.The assailants, on a motorcycle, fled the area after firing two shots at Trilokesh Dhali's abdomen in Sagar Island, a police officer...

Kolkata, March 10 – A video has gone viral on Tuesday showing a Trinamool Congress Councillor and his wife physically assaulting a doctor within his office in Egra, in the East Midnapore district of West Bengal.Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal and a veteran leader...

New Delhi, March 10 – Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilizers, Jagat Prakash Nadda, launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal on Tuesday, alleging that the state "lacks respect for the law, the judiciary, or democratic...

New Delhi, March 10 Union Minister J P Nadda on Tuesday challenged the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, accusing it of lacking respect for the judiciary, the Election Commission of India, and democratic procedures, and alleging that "the rule of law has been disregarded" in the state...

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 9 – The West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) questioned the Kolkata Police's justification for offering protocol salutes to the former State Director General of Police (DGP), Rajeev Kumar, on Monday. Kumar had appeared for a meeting with the full bench of the Election...

Chandigarh, March 9 Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Monday accused the ruling AAP in Punjab of creating obstacles during his visits to the state.Saini further criticized the Bhagwant Mann-led government for distributing freebies at the end of their term while failing to fulfill...

Kolkata, March 9 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday advised state bureaucrats and police officers not to succumb to pressure or disciplinary threats from the Election Commission of India (ECI) or Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.However, the Chief Minister...

Kolkata, March 9 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for her remarks on social media.On Monday, BJP spokesperson Pradeep Bhandari sharply criticised West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that she had issued an "open...

Kolkata, March 9 Four TMC Rajya Sabha candidates and one BJP aspirant from West Bengal were virtually elected to the Upper House on Monday and received their winning certificates from the Election Commission.With the last day for withdrawal of nominations for the Rajya Sabha elections falling...

Kolkata, March 9 Alleging that the BJP and "its agencies" were distributing leaflets at the site of her sit-in protest in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday directed TMC workers to apprehend them and hand them over to the police.Following Banerjee's direction from the stage of...

Kolkata, March 9 – A delegation from the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday urged the full bench of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to take action against four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member and Calcutta High Court senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee for...

New Delhi, March 7 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said the TMC government in West Bengal had reached a new low in its "anarchic behaviour" by "humiliating" President Droupadi Murmu with its blatant disregard for protocol.This exposes "the rot within the TMC government," Shah said in...

Kolkata, March 7 The TMC on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of indulging in unscrupulous politics by misusing the office of the President of India, and said that institutions aligned with the BJP are waging a political battle against the people of West Bengal for refusing to allow...

Kolkata/New Delhi, March 7 A fierce political battle erupted in West Bengal, a state going to polls, on Saturday, after President Droupadi Murmu highlighted the lack of development among tribal communities in northern Bengal, leading to a sharp retort from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Prime...

Kolkata, March 7 – The Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Parivartan Yatra continues to receive strong support from people in West Bengal, as party leaders accuse the Trinamool Congress government of corruption, mismanagement, and administrative failures.At a Parivartan Yatra event in the...

Kolkata, March 7 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, accusing the saffron party of using its allies and appointees for political gain before abandoning them.Speaking at the site of her indefinite protest against...

Kolkata, March 7 The TMC wrote to the Election Commission, alleging procedural irregularities in the scrutiny of nomination papers of BJP's Rajya Sabha candidate Rahul Sinha, and claimed that "discrepancies" in his election affidavit were overlooked by the returning officer.In the March 6...

Kolkata, March 6 – The political atmosphere in West Bengal intensified on Friday as TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee called for a "social and political boycott" of the BJP, accusing the Election Commission of attempting to disenfranchise over one crore voters through the Systematic Voters'...

New Delhi, March 5 West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose's abrupt resignation on Thursday, weeks before the state elections, led the Congress to wonder "what was happening" and to say that Jagdeep Dhankhar was "summarily dismissed" as vice president last year, and his successor in the Lok Bhavan...