Kolkata, Jan 27 (IANS) BJP President Nitin Nabin on Tuesday voiced for a research-based selection of party candidates to be fielded in the 294 assembly constituencies of West Bengal for the upcoming assembly elections. Sources said that Nabin stressed this research-based selection of party candidates at a meeting of the core committee of the BJP that was conducted at the industrial township of Durgapur.Nabin is currently on a two-day visit to West Bengal to take stock of the situation amid the c…
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Kolkata, Jan 23 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Friday accused the Election Commission of India (ECI) of going soft about the hindrances faced in conducting the special intensive revision (SIR), especially as regards to frequent report of hooliganism allegedly by the ruling Trinamool Congress activists at the centres for hearing on claims and objections on the draft voters’ list.“Why is the Commission limited to just sending communiques regarding such …
Kolkata, Jan 23 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has decided to identify the booth-level officers (BLOs), electoral registration officers (EROs) and assistant electoral registration officers (AEROs) accused of deliberately refusing acceptance of Form-7 applications in genuine cases and submit the list of erring electoral officers to the Election Commission of India (ECI).Form-7 applications are meant for the deletion of names of deceased, duplicate, and shifted voters,…
Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) The West Bengal unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday announced the names of its various panel chiefs for the state, which includes two sitting Lok Sabha members.According to the list issued by BJP’s state president and the party’s Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhattacharya, the party’s two-time Lok Sabha member from Bishunupur constituency in Bankura district, Saumitra Khan, has been named as the in-charge of the party’s Yuva Morcha (youth wing) in the state…
Kolkata, Jan 16 (IANS) The BJP on Friday said that the vandalism that occurred at the offices of the block development officers (BDOs) in two districts of West Bengal on January 14-15 necessitates decisive action from the Election Commission of India (ECI).At the same time, the West Bengal unit of the party has claimed that the ECI should ensure that Form-7 applications (deletion of names of voters) are submitted without resistance at the hearing centers on claims and objections on the draft vot…
Kolkata, Jan 13 (IANS) West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, on Tuesday, filed a public interest litigation at a division bench led by the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court, Sujoy Paul, seeking the court’s intervention for ensuring security at all polling booths for the Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year. “For the past many years, there had not been a single instance of absolutely peaceful voting in West Bengal. What …
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) A controversy arose regarding a poster that displayed Trinamool Congress’ All India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee in front of Swami Vivekananda’s ancestral residence located on Simla Street in North Kolkata on Monday.The BJP strongly criticised the poster, claiming that it featured only Abhishek Banerjee’s image and omitted any representation of Swami Vivekananda, despite the message ‘Welcome, Crown Prince’ written on it.The BJP said that by placing such a poster in …
Kolkata, Jan 7 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday named 34 members of the party’s new state committee in West Bengal.Party Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhattacharya, was already elected as the state president of West Bengal last year.On Wednesday, the 34 members of the new state committee were named.The 34 new names included 12 vice-presidents, five general secretaries, 12 secretaries, one treasurer, two joint treasurers, one office secretary, and one joint office secretary.At the…
Kolkata, Dec 25 (IANS) West Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya, in an open forum of the party meeting on Thursday, requested the Leader of the Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari, to refrain from making explanatory public statements about his background of joining the BJP before the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections. In the open session, Adhikari, during his speech, made an explanatory statement that, like many, he did not join the BJP in 2021 either after being expelled from his previous party or o…
Kolkata, Dec 22 (IANS) West Bengal BJP President and Rajya Sabha MP, Samik Bhattacharya, on Monday, filed a public interest litigation (PIL) at the Calcutta High Court demanding implementation of Ayushman Bharat, the health insurance scheme of the Union government, in the state. State BJP president in Bengal files PIL at Calcutta HC demanding the implementation of Ayushman Bharat in the stateKolkata, Dec 22 (IANS): State BJP president in West Bengal and the party Rajya Sabha member, Samik Bhatta…