New Delhi, Feb 25 (IANS) The political battlelines for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections are becoming clearer, with major parties firming up their strategies even as smaller players continue efforts to find relevance through alliances.Reports suggest that the ruling Trinamool Congress is close to finalising its candidate list, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are preparing to contest independently.The Election Commission has already initiated preparations for the…
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Kolkata, Feb 22 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress has alleged that its party workers were attacked by Indian Secular Front (ISF) activists in Polerhat area in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, police said on Sunday.The Trinamool Congress claimed that the incident occurred when they were holding the meeting in the area on Friday night.Two Trinamool Congress leaders were reportedly injured in the attack and were rushed to Jirengacha Rural Hospital.Doctors said that the condition of the injured…
Kolkata, Jan 31 (IANS) An explosion rocked a Trinamool Congress leader’s car in the South 24 Parganas Kulpi area in the middle of the night, said the police on Saturday morning. The explosion was so powerful that the garage roof was blown off. However, no one was injured in the incident. Following the incident that took place after midnight, the area has been tense.The Trinamool Congress alleged that the Indian Secular Front (ISF) is behind the incident. On the other hand, ISF claimed that the T…
New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) state unit’s topmost leader’s early Thursday outreach towards West Bengal’s controversial Babri Masjid replica builder stands out against Communists presenting themselves as secular and anti‑communal politicians. Left leaders have largely presented themselves as secular and anti‑communal, while Janata Unnayan Party Chief Humayun Kabir is associated with the Babri‑style mosque initiative in West Bengal’s Murshidabad district.Ka…
Kolkata, Jan 11 (IANS) Chairman of Congress Screening Committee (West Bengal), B.K. Hariprasad on Sunday said the first meeting of the screening committee was held on Sunday, and the party’s high command will soon hold a meeting with West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) leadership to finalise the upcoming Assembly poll strategy. Speaking to IANS, Hariprasad said, “This was our first meeting to decide the next steps. We will coordinate with the Bengal in-charge and state president befor…
New Delhi, January 8 (IANS) West Bengal elections have largely seen a direct contest between two opposing political parties at the hustings, whether Parliamentary or Assembly, which is again being anticipated for 2026, despite a confident Congress and Left, or the rise of regional satraps. A third force has always been present in state politics, yet there has been more of a two-way fight for power. Through time, the Trinamool Congress replaced its alma mater, the Congress, in challenging the mig…
Kolkata, Dec 31 (IANS) A political alliance based on religious tenets, as called by former Trinamool Congress MLA and builder of a Babri Masjid replica in West Bengal, Humayun Kabir, may cost West Bengal’s ruling party dearly in Muslim-dominated Assembly seats next year – as Bihar’s Seemanchal experience shows. Kabir’s unabashed proposal for the consolidation of Muslim votes will prompt a polarisation, which may even favour West Bengal’s principal Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),…
Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) Indian Secular Front (ISF) chairman Nawsad Siddiqui on Sunday clarified that no discussions have taken place regarding an electoral alliance with suspended Trinamool Congress leader Humayun Kabir’s newly-launched Janata Unnayan Party (JUP). The comments came a day after Kabir said that he wanted to enter into an electoral alliance with ISF for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections.Incidentally, Siddiqui visited the CPI(M) headquarters in Kolkata on Saturday and inter…
Kolkata, Dec 27 (IANS) Suspended Trinamool Congress leader and Bharatpur MLA Humayun Kabir on Saturday said that his newly-launched Janata Unnayan Party (JUP) will contest 182 seats in the West Bengal Assembly elections. He further expressed his desire to form an electoral alliance with the Indian Secular Front (ISF) and Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM. However, the ISF has not yet issued any statement regarding an alliance with Humayun Kabir’s party.Earlier, Kabir had said that his party would contest…