west bengal politics

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...

Kolkata, March 5 West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose resigned from his post on Thursday evening, triggering a fresh political storm in the state just days before the schedule for the crucial assembly elections is expected to be announced.The sudden development, which came while Bose was in...

Kolkata, March 4 The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday claimed that the number of Muslims killed in West Bengal during the last three years was higher than in any other Indian state.“I request people from the Muslim community to calculate the number of people from their community who...

Kolkata, March 4 A political controversy erupted on Wednesday after senior BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar alleged that West Bengal minister Manas Bhuniya made inappropriate remarks towards professors and students during a welcome event for new students at a college in the Paschim Medinipur...

Kolkata, March 3 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused Trinamool Congress leaders and a West Bengal Minister on Tuesday of making baseless allegations against the State Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal.The BJP also claimed that the Trinamool Congress's decision to...

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...

Mathurapur (WB), March 2 Union Home Minister Amit Shah intensified the BJP's campaign on infiltration in West Bengal on Monday, stating that while "only names are being deleted" from the state's electoral rolls under the SIR, infiltrators would be "removed from the state" once the party comes to...

Kolkata, March 2 – West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday criticised the Election Commission over the deletion of names from the final electoral rolls of the state following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, and asserted that she would win from the Bhabanipur Assembly...

Kolkata, March 2 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Election Commission over deletions in the post-SIR rolls, alleging a "nexus" between the poll panel and the BJP to disenfranchise genuine voters, and help the saffron party in the upcoming...

Howrah (WB), Mar 2 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday asserted that criminals in West Bengal would be "in jail or God knows where" within a month of a BJP government coming to power in the state.However, he said eliminating joblessness in Bengal, from where a significant number of people...

Howrah (WB), March 2 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh stated on Monday that criminals in West Bengal would be "in jail or wherever," within a month of a BJP government coming to power in the state.However, he said eliminating unemployment in Bengal, from where a significant number of people...

Sandeshkhali (WB), March 2 Union Minister for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Monday criticized the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal over the law and order situation, alleging that it was providing shelter to infiltrators.The BJP leader also accused the TMC...

Kolkata, March 2 – Union Home Minister Amit Shah stated on Monday that the people of West Bengal, "tormented by TMC's misgovernance," are yearning for change, as he announced his decision to join the ‘Poriborton Yatra’ being held by the state unit of the BJP.In a post on X, HM Shah said that...