Tag: West Bengal Elections

Babul-Supriyo
Babul Supriyo's car vandalised, heckled by Trinamool

Asansol: Union Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Babul Supriyo, whose car was vandalised outside a polling booth and he himself was heckled repeatedly during the Lok Sabha elections in Asansol on Monday, expressed his disappointment with the role of the central paramilitary forces. The singer-turned politician’s car was vandalised in Barabani area in […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
West-Bengal-security
710 companies of central forces in Bengal's 7th phase

Kolkata: A total of 710 companies of the central forces will be deployed for the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal covering nine parliamentary seats on May 19, according to Central Police Observer Vivek Dubey. “The 710 companies will be providing 100 per cent coverage in the state. It will include […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
TMC-up
Trinamool to meet EC on vandalism after BJP's roadshow

Kolkata: A Trinamool Congress delegation will meet the Election Commission on Wednesday in the wake of vandalism in college and destruction of Bengali polymath Vidyasagar’s bust during BJP President Amit Shah’s roadshow, according to party officials. “Trinamool Parliamentary team comprising @derekobrienmp, @Sukhendusekhar, Manish Gupta, Nadimul Haque seeks meeting with EC on May 15 in aftermath of […]

  • Saturday, 01 May 2021
No 'Mamta' For Mamata Banerjee- BJP Gives Another Jolt to TMC

New Delhi: Three MLAs from West Bengal, including Trinamool Congress-turned-BJP leader Mukul Roy’s son Subhrangshu Roy, along with more than 50 councillors on Tuesday joined the BJP here. The other two MLAs are Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya from Bishnupur (Trinamool) and Debendra Roy from Hemtabad (CPI-M). Roy represents Bijpur Assembly constituency. They were received at the […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
Election strategist Prashant Kishore
BJP Shares Audio Chat Of Prashant Kishor Praising Modi

Kolkata: A political controversy erupted in West Bengal during the fourth phase of the elections when BJP’s IT cell released an audio tape of Trinamool’ election strategist Prashant Kishor where…

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
Five Killed In Poll Related Violence In Bengal
Five Killed In Poll Related Violence In Bengal

Kolkata: Violence erupted in the fourth phase of elections in Bengal in which five people were killed in two separate incidents. Four persons were killed when central forces opened fire…

  • Saturday, 10 April 2021
Lord Jagannath's Chief Servitor Spotted Performing Puja At Mamata Banerjee's Residence
Lord Jagannath's Chief Servitor Spotted Performing Puja At Mamata Banerjee's Residence

Bhubaneswar: As the Election Commission sounded poll bugle for West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee organised a special puja seeking blessings to assume the power for the third term. The puja was performed by a group of servitors at Mamata’s Kalighat residence which also included Jagannath Swain Mohapatra, the chief badagrahi (priest) of Lord Jagannath […]

  • Sunday, 04 April 2021
Mamata Banerjee
Election Commission Concludes Injuries Sustained By Mamata Banerjee Not Result Of Attack: Sources

New Delhi: The Election Commission has ruled out that there was any attack on West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee that led to her injuries, sources in the poll body said on Sunday. After reviewing the reports sent by its two special poll observers and the state government, the Commission concluded […]

  • Saturday, 03 April 2021
West Bengal Elections
WB Elections 2021: Mamata Banerjee Participates In TMC's March On Wheelchair

Kolkata: Four days after she was injured and hospitalised during election campaign in Nandigram, TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee Sunday attended her first public event, as she led a road show in Kolkata on a wheelchair. Accompanied by senior TMC leaders, Banerjee was seen greeting the crowd with folded hands, with security personnel pushing her wheelchair. […]

  • Saturday, 03 April 2021
West Bengal Elections
Bengal Election: Mamata's "I am Shandilya" Countered By BJP's Rohingya Jibe

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee ending her Nandigram assembly election campaign by proclaiming that she belongs to the Shandilya gotra of Brahmins adds an incendiary element to the very charged up Bengal elections of 2021. At a time when the BJP has invoked Hindutva icons and issues to win a state it has […]

  • Thursday, 01 April 2021
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