Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA), which has begun probing the harassment of judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in West Bengal’s Malda district, will focus in its first preliminary report on whether the incident was driven by spontaneous public anger or was a pre-planned attempt to derail the ongoing judicial adjudication process.The agency’s initial findings, to be submitted to the Supreme Court next week, sources say, will focus on whether the incident …
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Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) The probe team of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), entrusted by the Election Commission of India (ECI) to investigate the case of harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers in minority-dominated Malda district in West Bengal, will reach Kaliachak later in the day and will first talk to the affected officers.At the time the report was filed, the NIA had yet to specify either the details of the probe team or their next course of investigation in the matter. …
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) A total of 18 persons, including an All India Secular Front (AISF) candidate from the Mothabari Assembly constituency in minority-dominated Malda district of West Bengal, Maulana Shahjan Ali, have been arrested till Thursday afternoon in connection with the harassment of seven judicial adjudication officers at Kaliachak in the same district on Wednesday night.All of them were produced before a district court in Malda on Thursday. However, while being presented in court, S…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) The All India Secular Front (AISF) on Monday announced the names of its candidates for 23 assembly constituencies for the two‑phase West Bengal Assembly elections scheduled to be held next month.Although AISF initially had indicated that it would announce candidates for all the 33 assembly constituencies it is fighting, it later declared the names of the candidates for only 23 constituencies.“This time the party is contesting the polls with a seat-sharing arrangement…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) Congress and All India Secular Front (AISF) are likely to publish their respective candidate lists on Monday.The Congress party is likely to publish its first list of 100 candidates for the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly. The AISF, which will have a seat-sharing arrangement with the CPI(M)-led Left Front, is expected to publish its candidates for all 33 seats which it will contest.Congress has, this time, decided to sever its seat-sharing arrangement with the Left Front, …
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) The CPI(M)-led Left Front on Thursday announced its second list of candidates for the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly polls, comprising 32 names.In the first list released on March 14, the names of candidates for 192 constituencies were announced. So, the names of 224 candidates out of the total 294 seats have been announced so far.Of the 32 candidates whose names were announced in the second list, one was from the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), three from the CPI…
Kolkata, Feb 24 (IANS) The seat-sharing arrangement between the Left Front in West Bengal and the All India Secular Front (AISF) for the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled to be held later this year could not be reached even after a significant bipartite pact between AISF and the CPI-M here on Tuesday. At the meeting which was attended by the lone AISF MLA in West Bengal Assembly, Nawsad Siddique, the Left Front Chairman in West Bengal Biman Bose, and the CPI-M Politburo member…
Kolkata, Feb 12 (IANS) All India Secular Front (AISF) has set a deadline for CPI(M)-led Left Front in West Bengal to spell out the front’s seat-sharing proposals for the Assembly elections this year against the backdrop of the Congress decision to go it alone in the polls.AISF sources said that a message had already been sent to the Left Front, especially to the front leader CPI(M), to spell out the seat-sharing proposal on its part by Sunday, failing which the AISF will start announcing its can…
Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) Suspended Trinamool Congress legislator and the founder of the newly floated political outfit, Janata Unnayan Party, Humayun Kabir, on Tuesday, ruled out any alliance with Congress for the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal.Instead, he said he will be keen for an understanding with Asaduddin Owaisi-founded All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) and CPI(M)-led Left Front.Kabir, the legislator from Bharatpur Assembly constituency in minority-dominated Murs…
Kolkata, Jan 22 (IANS) All India Secular Front (AISF) has given an open seat-sharing arrangement offer to CPI(M)-led Left Front in West Bengal for the Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year, irrespective of whether Congress shows interest in being part of that arrangement or not. However, at the same time, the lone AISF representative in the West Bengal Assembly, Nawsad Siddique, has set a deadline for the West Bengal Left Front to take a final decision in the matter and conve…