Latest Ranaghat News & Updates

Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) On the last day of Assembly election campaigning in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee held public meetings at four places, including Ranaghat, Goghat, and Arambagh, since morning and targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party on one issue after another, including the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, and the Special Intensive Revision exercise.​ Addressing an election rally in Nadia district’s Ranaghat, Abhishek Banerjee asked the Matuas whe…

Kolkata, April 13 (IANS) Trinamool Congress’s general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Monday promised to restore voting rights of those whose names have been removed from the state’s voter list post Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. Speaking at an election rally in Nadia district’s Karimpur, Banerjee said the voting rights of such people will be restored within a month after forming a new government in West Bengal after the Assembly polls.On Monday, he held a meeting in Karimpur to suppo…

Kolkata, March 27 (IANS) Saikat Chatterjee, a polling officer in poll-bound West Bengal and a teacher at a state-run school, was allegedly thrashed by some individuals after he protested against the playing of a purported Trinamool Congress campaign video during an electoral training programme at Ranaghat in Nadia district on Friday afternoon.The incident took place at Ranaghat Debnath Institute for Boys School, where a training programme for polling personnel was being conducted.After the incid…

Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) A Booth Level Officer (BLO) and an elderly person died in West Bengal on Thursday. Family members of the deceased alleged that they died due to workload and panic arising out of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and the voters’ list in the state.According to the police, the name of the BLO who died in West Midnapore district is Subimal Karak. He was 58-years-old and lived in Hatimari area of ​​​​Shalboni police station.He was working as a teacher at Sa…