Kolkata, April 16 (IANS) Actor-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mithun Chakraborty on Thursday fell ill while taking part in the election campaign in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district for the upcoming two-phase Assembly polls scheduled to be held later this month. A roadshow was going on in support of BJP candidate Subrata Mitra from Murshidabad’s Baharampur Assembly constituency. Chakraborty, who was present at the roadshow, suddenly fell ill. According to BJP leaders, Chakraborty wa…
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Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) Central security has been increased for Congress candidate from the Baharampur constituency, Adhir Chowdhury, ahead of the Assembly elections, said an insider from the government on Wednesday.Additional security personnel, including women, will be deployed, and five additional personnel joined his security team on Tuesday.The development comes days after Chowdhury, for two consecutive days, faced protests from a section of Trinamool Congress workers while campaigning in h…
Kolkata, March 29 (IANS) All India Congress Committee (AICC) on Sunday announced party candidates for 284 of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal, which will vote in two phases next month. As expected, the party has nominated the former state Congress president in West Bengal and five-time party Lok Sabha member, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, from the Baharampur Assembly constituency in his native district of Murshidabad.The former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member, Mausam Benazir Noor, …
Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) The Congress may announce candidates for the forthcoming elections to 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal in three separate phases based on the recommendations of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC).“In the first list, which might be announced very shortly, the names of around 100 candidates could be declared, including several party heavyweights. Our state Congress president in West Bengal, Suvankar Sarkar, has already left for New Delhi this eve…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the violence in Murshidabad district’s Beldanga area for two days last month over the death of a migrant worker from West Bengal in neighbouring Jharkhand, is focussing on the angle of ‘cyber-instigation’ though which the local people were misled and provoked by projecting a case of suicide as a murder.The NIA officials have already visited the cyber-crime police station at Baharampur to collect information and clues on th…