Kolkata, April 12 (IANS) A special team of the Election Commission of India (ECI) will arrive in West Bengal this week for a final review of preparedness for the two-phase voting on April 23 and April 29.Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said that in all probability, the special ECI review team, headed by Senior Deputy Election Commissioner, Gyanesh Bharati, will arrive in Kolkata on Monday morning to review preparedness for the 294 Assembly constituencies in the stat…
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Kolkata, April 11 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the last of his three campaign rallies in West Bengal on Saturday amid the crucial two-phase Assembly polls in the state next month, gave a call to the people of the state to change the Trinamool Congress regime, which he said had been ruling the people “over lies” for the last 15 years. He said, “You gave a chance to the previous Left Front regime for 34 years. Then you gave three consecutive chances to the Trinamool Congress go…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power in the poll-bound state, its division through the Assembly constituency rearrangement will be inevitable.”The BJP is plotting to divide West Bengal by rearranging Assembly seats. It has been planned to create a separate state with some areas from Bihar and some for West Bengal. They (BJP) will be able to do that only if they come to power. So we have to defeat…
Kolkata, March 31 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee, on Tuesday, asked whether the people of Balurghat in West Bengal’s South Dinajpur district had actually received the benefits of any Central government schemes despite the presence of a ‘double-engine government’ in the region. Citing specific statistics, Abhishek Banerjee issued a direct challenge, explicitly naming both Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Balurghat Lok Sabha MP as well as Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar …
Kolkata, March 2 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has given details of the advance deployment of the 480 companies of the Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in two phases in West Bengal before the announcement of the polling dates for the Assembly election.Of these 480 companies, 240 companies have already been deployed on March 1, and the remaining 240 companies will be deployed on March 10.The maximum deployment will be in the North 24 Parganas district at 58, followed by 35 in Mur…
Kolkata, Feb 26 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday announced the details of the 240 companies of Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel that will be deployed in the first phase on March 1, amid the preparations for the Assembly polls in West Bengal.Incidentally, this is the first time that the ECI has decided to deploy CAPF in the state so early, and that too before the announcement of the polling dates and enforcement of the model code of conduct.While 240 companies…
Kolkata, Jan 3 (IANS) The impact of a western disturbance has led to a rise in temperatures across Kolkata and several south Bengal districts, offering brief relief after days of bone-chilling cold when the mercury had dipped to around 11 degrees Celsius.On Saturday morning, the minimum temperature in Kolkata was recorded at 14.2 degrees Celsius, close to normal for this time of the year. On Friday, the city had logged a minimum of 13.1 degrees Celsius, while December 31 marked the coldest day o…