New Delhi, April 5 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to address a public meeting on Sunday at 4:15 p.m. in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, marking the Bharatiya Janata Party’s intensified push ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections.The Prime Minister will speak at the BJP’s ‘Bijoy Sankalpa Sabha’ at the historic Ras Mela Grounds, signalling the start of an aggressive outreach campaign in a region that has emerged as a saffron stronghold in recent years and remains a crucial electora…
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Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will release a “charge sheet” or a “White Paper” against the West Bengal government and the ruling Trinamool Congress on March 28, during his two-day visit to the poll-bound state amid the upcoming two-phased Assembly elections next month, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sources said on Wednesday. A state BJP committee member said that although it was initially decided that the manifesto, which the party is describing as “Sankalp Patra” now wil…
Kolkata, March 11 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is expecting a record turnout at the party’s mega rally at the Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata on March 14, which will be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Preparations are already in full swing at the Brigade Parade Ground to erect multiple stages for the rally, which will also mark the culmination of the BJP’s Parivartan Yatra across the state that began earlier this month ahead of the crucia…
Kolkata, March 10 (IANS) A heated exchange broke out between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Siliguri, north Bengal, on Monday night, hours before the BJP’s Parivartan Yatra is scheduled to begin in the region on Tuesday.The argument took place between Siliguri Sub-Divisional Council president and Trinamool leader Arun Ghosh and BJP MLA from the Matigara-Naxalbari Assembly constituency, Anandamay Barman, over preparations near the venue of the BJP programme…
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday appealed to people to “boycott the BJP” in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, alleging that the party was targeting voters through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Banerjee made the remarks while addressing party workers at a sit-in demonstration at Esplanade in central Kolkata to protest against nearly 60 lakh people being placed in the “under adjudication” cate…
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) The mega rally of the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata, which is scheduled to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi later this month as part of the party’s campaign build-up for the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal later this year, might be advanced by a day.“Initially, it was decided that the event would be organised on March 15. However, at that particular point in time, we made it c…
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) In a crucial meeting with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Nitin Nabin in Siliguri of Darjeeling district in West Bengal on Monday, the Gorkha leaders from the state had demanded either separate statehood or Union Territory (UT) status for the hills comprising of Darjeeling, Kalimpong and Kurseong in North Bengal. At the end of the meeting, BJP Lok Sabha MP from Darjeeling constituency, Raju Bista, said that in the meeting, BJP President Nabin had assured that t…
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) BJP President Nitin Nabin, on Sunday, launched a scathing attack against the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, urging people to put an end to the misrule by ousting the government from power in the upcoming Assembly polls. Speaking at the launch of BJP’s Parivartan Yatra in West Bengal from Cooch Behar district, Nabin said, “We have to free Bengal from misrule of the corrupt Trinamool Congress government. People in Bengal are yearning for change. This time people…
Kolkata, March 1 (IANS) Amid the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a mega rally at Brigade Parade Ground in central Kolkata on March 15.The mega rally will also mark the end of the “Parivartan Yatra” by the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that started on Sunday. Nine separate rallies will start from nine locations in the state on Sunday and Monday.However, there will be no rallies on March 3 and March 4, because of t…
Kolkata, Feb 23 (IANS) With the crucial Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled later this year, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will flag off the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) ‘Parivartan Yatra’ programme from South 24 Parganas district on March 1, marking the formal launch of the party’s statewide campaign initiative.As per the schedule finalised so far, the first ‘Parivartan Yatra’ will begin from the Raidighi Assembly constituency in South 24 Parganas district on the morning of Marc…