Kolkata, April 22 (IANS) Trinamool Congress has filed a complaint with the Election Commission of India (ECI) against the Central forces, accusing the personnel of beating and intimidating villagers in Nandigram in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district. The party has submitted a letter to the ECI in this regard, said a Trinamool leader on Wednesday.In the letter, Trinamool claimed that the CRPF is working at the “behest of the BJP”, and the Central forces are being “used for political gain”. The…
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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…
New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) In the run-up to the 2006 West Bengal Assembly election, it appeared that Mamata Banerjee would wrest power from the communists in the state, even if not with an overwhelming margin. But, she could not. Voter’s turnout was recorded at 84.52 per cent in 2006, the highest in the state and the Left citadel fortified itself, sweeping 233 of the 294 Assembly seats. Mamata’s Trinamool Congress lost half of the 60 seats it had won earlier in 2001. But being someone not to…
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) The Election Commission of India filed an FIR against Nandigram’s Trinamool Congress candidate Pabitra Kar after receiving a complaint from BJP candidate Suvendu Adhikari. According to the commission, this complaint was filed on Thursday morning.Incidentally, on Wednesday, Suvendu Adhikari came to check the preparations for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s public meeting in Haldia. Later, he held a Press meeting at the BJP office. “I would like to ask the Election Commissio…
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) The 2021 electoral results of Nandigram Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district of West Bengal will be replicated this time in the entire state, especially Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata, the Prime Minister said on Thursday.“East Midnapore, especially Nandigram, in 2021, first proved that change is possible in West Bengal. The body language of the people of West Bengal this time is a signal that the results at Nandigram in 2021 will be replic…
Kolkata, April 9 (IANS) As Bhabanipur Assembly Constituency in South Kolkata is heading for the most high-profile electoral contest in West Bengal later this month, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, pitted against each other, respective affidavits of the two candidates filed along with their nominations show that Adhikari is way ahead of Mamata Banerjee both in terms of assets and cases filed against him.As per the affidavit filed…
Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday shot off a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, accusing poll officials in West Bengal, including the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), Manoj Kumar Agarwal, of political bias in favour of the BJP.In the letter to the CEC, signed jointly by four party Rajya Sabha members namely Derek O’Brien, Sagarika Ghose, Menaka Guruswami and Saket Gokhale, the CEO Manoj Kumar Agarwal has been accused of being politically bia…
Kolkata, April 8 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination from her native Assembly constituency of Bhabanipur in South Kolkata.The list of proposers in her nomination form reflected the “cosmopolitan” nature of Bhabanipur, which is considered a cauldron of people from almost the entire country.The proposers in her nomination form include Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim’s wife, Ismat Hakim (representing the Muslims), actress-turned-politician and Trinam…
Kharagpur, April 4 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday, claimed that a strong wave of change is sweeping across the state, asserting that people from all regions are united in their demand for political transformation ahead of the upcoming state polls. Speaking to IANS during an election campaign in Kharagpur, LoP Adhikari said, “There is only one wave across the whole of Bengal, from Darjeeling to Digha and from Cooch Behar to Kakdwip. Ev…
Kolkata, April 2 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday asserted that a change in the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency of South Kolkata would automatically translate into a change of regime in West Bengal. In Bhabanipur, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is pitted against the leader of the opposition, Suvendu Adhikari.Addressing a gathering during a roadshow at Bhabanipur ahead of the filing of nomination by Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, HM Shah said, “BJP is st…