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, …
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Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) The BJP on Friday said that the vandalism that occurred at the offices of the block development officers (BDOs) in two districts of West Bengal on January 14-15 necessitates decisive action from the Election Commission of India (ECI).At the same time, the West Bengal unit of the party has claimed that the ECI should ensure that Form-7 applications (deletion of names of voters) are submitted without resistance at the hearing centers on claims and objections on the draft vot…
Kolkata, Jan 15 (IANS) After Farakka in Murshidabad, another BDO office has been vandalised, this time in the Chakulia area of North Dinajpur district. On Thursday, allegations of vandalism and arson at the Gorakhpur II BDO office in Chakulia surfaced during protests against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list in the state.According to police sources, several people blocked the state highway and staged a demonstration. Those who were summoned for the SIR hearing were primarily…