Bhabanipur, April 29 (IANS) West Bengal Leader of Opposition (LoP) Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday inspected polling stations in the Bhabanipur Assembly seat, and also offered prayers at the Hanuman temple in the region as the voting for the second phase of elections in the state continued amid tight security. Suvendu Adhikari is contesting against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Bhabanipur — a seat held by Mamata for the past 15 years. He is also contesting the elections from Nandigram, a se…
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Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) Polling began at 7 a.m. on Wednesday for 142 constituencies across six districts in West Bengal, including its capital, Kolkata, in the second phase of the two-phase Assembly polls.The polling process started on Wednesday with mild tension in certain pockets from the very first hour.In the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata, which is witnessing a battle between Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, t…
New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Polling for the second (final) phase of the West Bengal Assembly elections is set to take place on Wednesday, with voting to be held across 142 constituencies spread over six districts and the state capital, Kolkata, under unprecedented security arrangements.Polling parties dispatched earlier on Tuesday to their respective polling stations with EVMs, VVPATs and other polling materials for the final phase of polls in the state.The total number of registered electors in …
Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) A day before the second phase of the Assembly elections in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress, on Tuesday, again approached the Calcutta High Court against the preventive arrests conducted in the state from April 26 morning till April 27 evening as per instructions of the Election Commission of India (ECI).On Monday evening, the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, informed that 1,095 preventive arrests were made in the last 24 hours since Sunday evenin…
Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) Ahead of the second and final phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls for 142 constituencies on Wednesday, the state and Kolkata police and central paramilitary forces, in joint operations at different pockets in the state, have made a total of 1,095 preventive arrests during the last 24 hours.According to statistics provided by the office of the state Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), the preventive arrest figure during the last 36 hours is 1,583.”These arrests have been m…
Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP from Arambagh in West Bengal, Mitali Bag, was injured after she came under attack in Hooghly district’s Goghat on Monday afternoon while she was on her way to attend an election rally of party national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee.Her car was reportedly vandalised in the incident, and she sustained injuries while seated in the front seat beside the driver. The TMC MP accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters of carrying out the …
Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) Director General (DG) of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), G.P. Singh, on Saturday led a route march of CRPF personnel in Diamond Harbour of South 24 Parganas district as part of confidence-building measures ahead of the second and final phase of the Assembly elections in West Bengal.The West Bengal Sector of the CRPF shared a video of the route march on its X handle, showing the DG leading the personnel on the ground.“Leading from the front! DG CRPF Shri G.P. S…
New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) West Bengal’s principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will need to significantly shore up its 2021 performance in phase two of Assembly election scheduled on Wednesday, April 29, where most of the 142 seats spread across seven districts have historically voted overwhelmingly for the ruling Trinamool Congress. The BJP had a favourable field among the 152 constituencies which went to poll in the first phase last Thursday, April 23, where it had won 59 of the …
Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) A total of 142 Assembly constituencies spread across six districts and the state capital Kolkata will go to the polls in the second phase of the two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal on April 29 under a blanket security cover, with 2,348 companies of central forces to be deployed, including the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF), India Reserve Battalion (IRB) and armed police units from other states.The highest deployment of central forces will be in North 24 Parga…
Kolkata, April 25 (IANS) Congress Rajya Sabha MPs, Pramod Tiwari and Akhilesh Prasad, on Saturday claimed that the Congress will play a decisive role in forming the government in West Bengal after Assembly polls. The Congress is contesting the election in West Bengal on its own and without any alliance after 20 years.In this context, the leadership is targeting both the Trinamool and the BJP. According to Pramod Tiwari and Akhilesh Prasad Singh, the Congress is emerging as the third force here. …