Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday launched his campaign for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in south Kolkata, claiming that panic over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is evident in the body language of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Adhikari, this time, is contesting simultaneously from Bhabanipur, where the Trinamool Congress candidate is the Chief Minister, as well as from Nandigram in East Midnapore district,…
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Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Of the 294 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal that will go to the polls in two phases next month, the spotlight is firmly on the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency, where a direct contest between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari has turned the seat into a high-stakes battle.Adhikari is also contesting simultaneously from the Nandigram Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district, where he has been a two-time legislator –…
Kolkata, March 4 (IANS) An FIR against Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, was registered at a Kolkata police station on Wednesday, based on a complaint accusing him of making communally sensitive statements on the occasion of the Dol Yatra festival.Adhikari on Tuesday celebrated the festival with the monks, local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, and the voters of the south Kolkata’s Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency, where the sitting lawmaker is Chief Mi…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) 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 constituency “even if one voter is left”.Speaking at an event at the Netaji Indoor Stadium to celebrate Holi, Banerjee alleged a nexus between the Election Commission and the BJP to remove names of g…
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to give a tough fight to the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her Assembly constituency Bhabanipur in the upcoming Assembly elections. Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and veteran BJP leader, Suvendu Adhikari, has set up a ‘war room’ in the Bhabanipur constituency, BJP sources said on Sunday.This ‘war room’ has been set up on the ground floor of a house at 8/1B Chakraberia Road (South) in Ward No-70 of th…
Kolkata, Feb 13 (IANS) The Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, stated on Friday that the ruling Trinamool Congress’ fear of losing is apparent from the daily incidents of vandalism perpetrated by its members, primarily aimed at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across different Assembly constituencies.Adhikari made this observation while posting a video on the social media X, where some Trinamool Congress activists were seen erasing 10 wall writings within th…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said on Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be coming to power in the state after the Assembly elections take place this year if nearly six per cent of the ‘anti-Hindu’ votes shift towards the party. “The BJP’s vote percentage in West Bengal in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls stood at 39 per cent. To win the Assembly elections in West Bengal this year, what we need is an additional six per ce…