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…
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Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) BJP leaders on Tuesday attacked the Trinamool Congress after a local BJP worker was found dead in West Bengal’s Raidighi, calling the incident ‘shameful’. BJP’s West Bengal general secretary Locket Chatterjee told reporters, “They (Trinamool) are now attacking BJP workers. Bullet, knife, all this is happening now. The entire country comes to know when elections are happening in West Bengal. It is very shameful. The people of Bengal will reply to this in 2026 (Assembly el…
Kolkata, March 24 (IANS) Trinamool Congress All-India General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Tuesday alleged that the BJP is trying to intimidate Trinamool Congress Booth Level Agents (BLAs) by calling them on their phones and offering money. He claimed that the Election Commission has leaked the list of Trinamool Congress BLAs to the BJP.Addressing a public meeting at Pathar Pratima in South 24 Parganas district, Banerjee said, “The list for BLA-2 (Trinamool Congress) has fallen into t…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) Congress and All India Secular Front (AISF) are likely to publish their respective candidate lists on Monday.The Congress party is likely to publish its first list of 100 candidates for the 294-seat West Bengal Assembly. The AISF, which will have a seat-sharing arrangement with the CPI(M)-led Left Front, is expected to publish its candidates for all 33 seats which it will contest.Congress has, this time, decided to sever its seat-sharing arrangement with the Left Front, …
Kolkata, March 22 (IANS) Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand on Sunday asserted that incidents of booth jamming, vote rigging, or booth capturing will not be tolerated under any circumstances during the Assembly elections in the city.The directive was issued after Nand paid an inspection visit to Bhangar Police Station on the southern outskirts of Kolkata.The Election Commission is maintaining strict vigilance over election preparations and security arrangements. In compliance with the Commiss…
Kolkata, March 22 (IANS) An unusual 11-degree drop in maximum temperature has been recorded in Kolkata in the spring season following two days of rain.Until now, the maximum temperature had consistently hovered above 30 degrees Celsius. However, due to incessant overnight rainfall (starting on Friday evening and continuing on Saturday, the mercury plummeted sharply by 11 degrees in a single stroke. A sudden winter chill has descended upon Kolkata and South Bengal.The Meteorological Department sa…
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Amid the crucial two-phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, huge amounts of cash have been recovered by the state police in two locations in the state during the last 12 hours, said the police on Thursday.One of the two locations is Baruipur in the South 24 Parganas district in South Bengal, and the other is the tribal-dominated Alipurduar district.Sensing use of illegal cash in the forthcoming polls to allure voters, the Election Commission of India (ECI) h…
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) mandated the transfer of 13 Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers, all in the ranks of District Magistrates (DMs), who are the district electoral officers (DEOs).As per the notification issued by the ECI in the afternoon, Jitin Jadav, a 2016 batch IAS officer, will be the new DM-cum-DEO of Cooch Behar district.Sandeep Ghosh, also of the 2016 batch, will be the new DM-cum-DEO of Jalpaiguri district.Vikek Kumar (2016 batch) has…
Kolkata, March 8 (IANS) The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Kolkata’s Alipore has forecast the possibility of thunderstorms and rain in the entire state, including Kolkata, from Sunday evening. The MeT Office said that despite the thunderstorms, the temperature will not change much in the next seven days.According to the forecast, Kolkata, Howrah, Hooghly, and North 24 Parganas are likely to experience scattered light rain and gusty winds on Monday and Tuesday. However, no separate warni…
Kolkata, March 5 (IANS) The progress in poll preparations in two Bangladesh-bordering districts in West Bengal for the forthcoming Assembly polls has not been satisfactory so far, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has communicated to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).These two districts are South 24 Parganas in South Bengal and Cooch Behar in North Bengal. Sources in the CEO’s office said that last week, the ECI’s top brass at its headquarters in New Delhi had a virtual me…