New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar on Thursday hailed voters of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu for registering record turnout in the Assembly elections. “Highest ever percentage of polling in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu since Independence – ECI salutes each voter of West Bengal and Tamil Nadu,” said CEC Gyanesh Kumar in a message, even as the final turnout figures were being collated by officials in both states.For the first phase of voting in 152 Assembly …
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New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) The high-stakes electoral contest for the West Bengal Assembly, marked by a fierce rivalry between the ruling Trinamool Congress and the main opposition BJP, is also witnessing a sharp war of words as both sides seek to outmanoeuvre each other.Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on a whirlwind campaign trail on Thursday, drew a “setting sun” analogy for the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government to highlight its alleged failings on multiple fronts, primarily …
Kolkata/Chennai, April 23 (IANS) The voter turnout in the West Bengal Assembly elections was recorded at 18.76 per cent, and in Tamil Nadu, at 17.69 per cent as of 9 a.m. on Thursday, according to data shared by the Election Commission of India (ECI). Polling began for 152 assembly constituencies scattered over 16 districts of West Bengal from 7 a.m. on Thursday in the first phase of the two-phase crucial Assembly polls. Voter enthusiasm for the elections appeared to be quite high this time, as …
Kolkata, April 21 (IANS) Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday took a jibe at the Adhikari family’s bastion in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district from her election rally in Haldia and said that in the future, she will give the responsibility of Midnapore to party’s General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee. The Chief Minister also called for the overthrow of the Adhikari family of BJP’s Nandigram candidate Suvendu Adhikari.”You (Suvendu Adhikari) have so much of arrogance. One broth…
Kolkata, April 15 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has identified minority-dominated Murshidabad as the most sensitive among the districts in West Bengal that will be going for polls in the first phase of the state Assembly elections on April 23 and hence has decided to deploy maximum forces there.Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that of the total of 2,407 companies of security forces to be deployed in the first-phase polling, as many as 316 compani…
Kolkata, April 14 (IANS) Amid the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be participating in as many as five political programmes in the state on Tuesday.Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will begin his campaign journey in the state with three programmes throughout the day.The Union Home Minister’s programme will include four public meetings and one roadshow. The public meetings include two at Manikchak and Gazole in minority-dominated Malda district…
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) Following overnight rain, the Met office on Thursday predicted rain accompanied by thunderstorms over Kolkata and south Bengal districts for rest of the day and Friday.The Regional Meteorological Centre in Kolkata’s Alipore said that there is an axial line over Gangetic West Bengal stretching from Telangana.Due to this, a large amount of water vapour is entering from the Bay of Bengal, due to which frequent thunderstorms are occurring.After Wednesday’s thunderstorms, Kolk…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Trinamool Congress, on Wednesday, approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking the immediate removal of the new returning officer (RO), appointed for Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a Trinamool Congress candidate, is pitted against Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.On March 23, the ECI ordered the replacement of as many…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) The national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Nitin Nabin, will arrive in the city on Tuesday with a busy schedule for two days amid the critical two-phase Assembly elections in the state.A state committee member of the BJP in West Bengal said he is expected to begin his work soon after arriving at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport. “At around 11 a.m., he is expected to start his schedule with a meeting with the core party leaders in W…
Kolkata, March 22 (IANS) An unusual 11-degree drop in maximum temperature has been recorded in Kolkata in the spring season following two days of rain.Until now, the maximum temperature had consistently hovered above 30 degrees Celsius. However, due to incessant overnight rainfall (starting on Friday evening and continuing on Saturday, the mercury plummeted sharply by 11 degrees in a single stroke. A sudden winter chill has descended upon Kolkata and South Bengal.The Meteorological Department sa…