Kolkata, March 28 (IANS) The BJP and Trinamool Congress on Saturday locked horns after clashes were reported in Ram Navami rallies, primarily in Murshidabad in poll-bound West Bengal.Earlier, clashes were also reported in Basanti Bazar area of South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, which is scheduled to vote in next month’s two-phased Assembly polls.Reacting to reports of violence, BJP leader Locket Chatterjee told IANS, “The law-and-order situation is very bad (in the state). What West Beng…
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Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday sought a detailed report from Kolkata Police on the murder of Trinamool Congress worker Rahul Dey (36), who was killed in a shootout between two rival groups while they were sitting and allegedly consuming alcohol on the rooftop of a residence at Bagha Jatin in the southern outskirts of Kolkata late Wednesday night.In the shootout, another individual, Jeet Mukherjee, sustained bullet injuries.The Commission has also soug…
Kolkata, March 26 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Thursday expressed apprehension over possible attempts to hack electronic voting machines (EVMs) to be used in the crucial two-phase polling in West Bengal next month.The party’s Lok Sabha member from Jadavpur constituency in South 24 Parganas district, actor-turned-politician Sayani Ghosh, made the remarks while speaking to the media on Thursday afternoon at a press conference jointly addressed with West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu.”W…
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 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…