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Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) BJP candidate Agnimitra Paul on Thursday described the recently-concluded polling process in West Bengal as unprecedented, claiming that neither the state nor the country had witnessed such peaceful polling before, while urging all political parties to respect the final mandate.Speaking to IANS, Paul praised the conduct of the elections and credited the officials overseeing the process, including Chief Election Commissioner of India, Gyanesh Kumar, and West Bengal Chief …

Kolkata, Feb 25 (IANS) The office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, on Wednesday sent its formal recommendation to the headquarters of the Election Commission of India (ECI) in Delhi for the registration of Janata Unnayan Party (JUP), the new political party floated by suspended Trinamool Congress legislator Humayun Kabir from the Bharatpur Assembly constituency in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district of West Bengal.According to sources in the CEO’s office, Humayun Kabi…

Kolkata, Dec 28 (IANS) Bharatpur MLA and suspended Trinamool Congress leader Humayun Kabir’s son Ghulam Nabi Azad was detained on charges of assaulting the leader’s security guard in West Bengal on Sunday. The police went to Kabir’s residence in Murshidabad district’s Shaktipur and detained Azad.Following the development, Kabir went to the Shaktipur police station to mark his protest and threatened to gherao the office of Murshidabad Superintendent of Police on Thursday.According to local source…