Latest Canning (Purba) News & Updates

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, Feb 19 (IANS) Kaizar Ahmed, a prominent Trinamool Congress leader from Bhangar in South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, on Thursday filed a police complaint against his own party’s legislator from the adjacent Canning (Purba) Assembly constituency, Saokat Molla, accusing him of attempting to have him killed.In the complaint filed at Bhangar Police Station on Thursday afternoon, Ahmed alleged that Molla had hired a contract killer to assassinate him. In his written complaint, whic…