Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee said on 27 March that there is a strong possibility the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government will increase the prices of cooking gas and transport fuel after the assembly elections on 29 April. West Bengal is voting in two phases for assembly elections on 23 and 29 April. Also Read…
A big controversy has come to light in Basirhat North assembly constituency of West Bengal. Here the names of 340 voters have been suddenly removed from a single polling station. The most surprising thing was that all these voters belonged to the same community, after which protests started in the area. This case pertains to…
The Trinamool Congress on 17 March released the names of 291 candidates for the 294 Assembly seats of West Bengal for the upcoming elections. Bengal is voting in two phases – 23 and 29 April – and the votes will be counted on 4 May. The TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee…
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday raised questions over what she called the “arbitrary removal of more than 50 senior officials” in the poll-bound state by the Election Commission of India. The Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief termed it a “political interference of the highest order”. Mamata Banerjee claimed that such action amounted to…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its second list of candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly Elections. The second list, comprising 111 names, came three days after the saffron party released its first list of 144 names for the West Bengal Elections. West Bengal has 294 assembly seats. The Assembly Elections in West Bengal…
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded the mother of a trainee doctor who was raped and murdered in Kolkata’s RG Kar Hospital in 2024 from Panihati assembly constituency as it released the third list of 19 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal polls on 25 March. Her candidature from Panihati signals the party’s attempt…
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday wrote another strongly worded letter to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar, expressing “deep shock” at the poll panel’s functioning. The letter came hours after the TMC chief attacked the poll panel for ‘overnight’ transfers of top bureaucrats and IPS officers in the poll-bound state. In the letter, her…
The West Bengal Assembly Election is less than a month away. And the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with what it calls one of the ‘largest decentralized’ political digital ecosystems of the country. The state’s ruling party has integrated as many as 80,000 of its booth workers with 1,60,000…
Before the West Bengal Assembly elections 2026, the biggest arena of politics has now become not the field or the stage, but social media. For political parties, hashtags have become not just trending words but an important part of the election strategy. Both Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Trinamool Congress (TMC) are trying to reach…
BJP has released the second list of 111 candidates for the West Bengal Assembly elections. The party has changed the candidate from Bishnupur assembly seat. Apart from this, BJP also released the name of a candidate from Joypur in its list whom BJP is supporting. The party has given ticket to Roopa Ganguly from Sonarpur…
