New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) Trinamool Congress MP, Kirti Azad, on Wednesday said that West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is destined to be the next Prime Minister, while launching a sharp attack on the BJP. Speaking to IANS outside Parliament, Azad stated, “There are not any allegations against the ECI, the allegations are against the BJP. However, everyone thinks that all these allegations are against the ECI. It is because the ECI is the right hand of the BJP, through which they are t…
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Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Pabitra Kar, a former BJP strongman from Nandigram who joined the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday, received a party ticket to contest against Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Suvendu Adhikari. Speaking to IANS, Kar expressed confidence that the Trinamool would win the Nandigram Assembly constituency by a margin of 30,000 votes.“The results for Nandigram will be a positive one for the Trinamool. I joined with a positive mindset today. I wish to remain pos…
New Delhi, March 17 (IANS) Trinamool Congress Chairperson Mamata Banerjee refused to bite the bait offered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to avenge her 2021 defeat in Nandigram that forced her to re-contest from the safer seat of Bhabanipur so that she could continue to be West Bengal Chief Minister for a third straight term. Her once-trusted aide, Suvendu Adhikari, beat her that time by less than 2,000 votes in what was termed a prestige fight. Though Adhikari’s vote share came down sign…
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants to give a tough fight to the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her Assembly constituency Bhabanipur in the upcoming Assembly elections. Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and veteran BJP leader, Suvendu Adhikari, has set up a ‘war room’ in the Bhabanipur constituency, BJP sources said on Sunday.This ‘war room’ has been set up on the ground floor of a house at 8/1B Chakraberia Road (South) in Ward No-70 of th…
Kolkata, Feb 28 (IANS) The final voters’ list in West Bengal, as part of the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in the state, was published on Saturday. As per statistics, names of around 47,000 voters were deleted in the case of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Assembly constituency, while the same figure in the case of the constituency of the Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, stood at around 11,000.As the figures available from the office of the Chief …
Kolkata, Feb 2 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Monday, alleged that land mafias backed by the ruling Trinamool Congress have filled a massive pond in Bhangar area of South 24 Parganas district. Sharing a video clip of the incident on his official X account, LoP Adhikari alleged that it was another example of illegal filling of protected East Kolkata Wetlands. He said this allowed illegitimate warehouses to be established without any permission …
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, Jan 3 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said on Saturday that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be coming to power in the state after the Assembly elections take place this year if nearly six per cent of the ‘anti-Hindu’ votes shift towards the party. “The BJP’s vote percentage in West Bengal in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls stood at 39 per cent. To win the Assembly elections in West Bengal this year, what we need is an additional six per ce…
Kolkata, Dec 23 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday directed BJP legislators to focus fully on their respective Assembly constituencies from the New Year, beginning next week.He also instructed that if any party legislator from the districts needs to visit Kolkata for official work, they should attempt to arrive in the state capital in the morning and return to their constituencies the same evening after completing their tasks.“He has direc…