Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) founder Humayun Kabir on Wednesday, during an interaction with IANS, claimed that in the coming days West Bengal will have a Muslim Deputy Chief Minister.West Bengal will vote in two phases in the Assembly elections scheduled to be held on April 23 and April 29. The results will be announced on May 4.Kabir said: “I have registered a party to form the government. I will lead the Muslims. In the coming days, the Deputy CM will be a Muslim in th…
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Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Pabitra Kar, a former BJP strongman from Nandigram who joined the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday, received a party ticket to contest against Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari. Speaking to IANS, Kar expressed confidence that the Trinamool would win the Nandigram Assembly constituency by a margin of 30,000 votes.“The results for Nandigram will be a positive one for the Trinamool. I joined with a positive mindset today. I wish to remain pos…
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Trinamool Congress Chairperson Mamata Banerjee refused to bite the bait offered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to avenge her 2021 defeat in Nandigram that forced her to re-contest from the safer seat of Bhabanipur so that she could continue to be West Bengal Chief Minister for a third straight term. Her once-trusted aide, Suvendu Adhikari, beat her that time by less than 2,000 votes in what was termed a prestige fight. Though Adhikari’s vote share came down sign…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) Names of more voters are likely to be deleted from the electoral roll of Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in West Bengal, represented by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, at the end of the ongoing judicial adjudication of the voters’ documents, sources said.As per statistics available from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, the number of voters’ documents that have been referred for judicial adjudication after being classified under the “logical d…
Kolkata, March 3 (IANS) Eyeing the crucial state elections in West Bengal and keeping in line with his focus to give Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a tough fight in her constituency of Bhabanipur in South Kolkata, Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, organised a mass interaction there on Tuesday on the occasion of the Dol Yatra festival.Adhikari celebrated the festival in Bhabanupur with monks and the voters from the constituency.The participation of the LoP in…
Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) The final voters’ list in West Bengal, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, was published on Saturday. As per statistics, names of around 47,000 voters were deleted in the case of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Assembly constituency, while the same figure in the case of the constituency of the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, stood at around 11,000.As the figures available from the office of the Chief …
Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday expressed concern that around 1.20 crore voters’ names could be deleted from the electoral rolls in the state following the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR).Addressing a gathering in her Assembly constituency of Bhabanipur in south Kolkata, the Chief Minister alleged that the Election Commission of India (ECI) is identifying a large number of voters under what it termed “logical discrepancy” cases.“The E…
Kolkata, Feb 3 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of selectively deleting voters from the Assembly constituencies with Trinamool Congress legislators in the state through the ongoing special intensive revision (SIR).“In Assembly constituencies with Bharatiya Janata Party legislators, names of a maximum of 3,000 to 4,000 voters are deleted. Whereas, in the Assembly constituencies with Trinamool Congress legislators, the nu…
Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) Humayun Kabir, the suspended Trinamool Congress legislator from Bharatpur Assembly Constituency in Murshidabad district of West Bengal, on Monday announced his political party, christened the Janata Unnayan Party. According to Kabir, the name of his new political outfit was the result of a well-thought-out exercise since he neither wanted to include the word ‘Congress’ nor ‘Trinamool’ in the name of his new party.”The common people of West Bengal will be able to relate the…