Kolkata, May 4 (IANS) Early counting trends in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election indicate that BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari has taken an initial lead over Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the Bhabanipur constituency. The first hour of counting showed Adhikari ahead, setting the tone for a closely watched contest. Adhikari, once a trusted associate of Banerjee in the Trinamool Congress, had delivered a significant setback in the last Assembly polls by defeating her in Nandigram by a narrow m…
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Kolkata, May 4 (IANS) Early trends of the Election Commission of India (ECI) showed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leading in the Jhargram Assembly constituency in West Bengal during the first hour of vote counting. BJP candidate Lakshmi Kanta Sau was leading with over 900 votes, while Trinamool Congress candidate Mongal Saren was trailing, as per the ECI trends as of 9:30 a.m.The counting of votes cast in the two-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal began at 8 a.m. on Monday, with postal ballo…
Murshidabad, May 4 (IANS) Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP) chief Humayun Kabir on Monday said that the counting process for the West Bengal Assembly elections should proceed smoothly and that the Election Commission of India (ECI) should ensure there are no problems. The counting of votes cast in the two-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal began at 8 a.m. on Monday, with postal ballots counted first. Speaking to IANS, Kabir said, “Everything is completely fine at the polling stations. The Electio…
Varanasi, May 4 (IANS) Women offered special prayers in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh on Monday, seeking victory for the BJP in West Bengal. They performed Ganga Aarti, Shankhnaad, and Surya Upasana, expressing hope for political change in the state. Speaking to IANS, several women shared their expectations and aspirations. One woman said, “We have prayed here and performed aarti. We hope the BJP comes to power. There should be a change in Bengal. It will benefit students, and we want the BJP to win…
Kolkata, May 4 (IANS) The counting of votes cast in the two-phase Assembly polls in West Bengal started at 8 a.m. on Monday, with the postal ballots being counted initially.This time, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has brought about some changes in the counting pattern. In previous elections, counting of votes started only after the counting of postal ballots was completed fully.However, this time, counting of only postal ballots will be done for the first 30 minutes, that is, from 8 a.m…
Kolkata, May 2 (IANS) The re-polling for 15 polling booths under two Assembly constituencies in South 24 Parganas district in West Bengal, which started at 7 a.m. on Saturday, has concluded peacefully at 6 p.m. under blanket security coverage of central forces, assisted by personnel from the state police forces, with not a single report or complaint of poll-related tension, violence, or disruption surfacing from anywhere. The average polling percentage across all 15 polling booths combined st…
Kolkata, April 30 (IANS) The polling percentage in the second phase of elections for 142 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal on April 29 has been recorded at 92.47 till midnight, thus taking the overall average percentage in the two phases to a record high of 92.85.However, as clarified by insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, on Thursday morning, neither of these figures is final as tabulation will be available later in the day.The polling percentage fig…
Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) Campaigning for the second phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls on April 29 officially ended at 6 p.m. on Monday, as the mandatory 48-hour silence period came into effect. On the last day of the campaign, there had been the last campaign rally by PM Modi at Jagatdal in the North 24 Parganas district, from where he expressed confidence of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning the Assembly polls in West Bengal this time and claimed that he would come to the state …
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday described Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi’s recent criticism of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal as a “late realisation”, reacting to the Congress leader’s remarks on the party’s role in the BJP’s rise in the state.“It has been realised very late,” HM Shah told IANS in Kolkata, responding to Rahul Gandhi’s video message on social media platform X.In the 106-second video clip po…
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI)’s tabulation till Thursday (April 23) midnight showed that the voting in the first phase of Assembly polls for 152 constituencies in West Bengal reached 92.88 per cent, a record high in the state’s electoral history.However, this figure, 92.88 per cent of polling, is not the final figure since the final tabulation is yet to be arrived at, confirmed an insider from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal. He al…