Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) The All India Secular Front (AISF) on Monday announced the names of its candidates for 23 assembly constituencies for the two‑phase West Bengal Assembly elections scheduled to be held next month.Although AISF initially had indicated that it would announce candidates for all the 33 assembly constituencies it is fighting, it later declared the names of the candidates for only 23 constituencies.“This time the party is contesting the polls with a seat-sharing arrangement…
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Kolkata, March 20 (IANS) Even a couple of hours before the announcement of the Trinamool Congress’s candidate list on March 17 for the forthcoming two‑phase Assembly elections in West Bengal next month, no one had any idea who would be the party’s candidate at Nandigram in East Midnapore district against sitting two‑time legislator and Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari. Things became clear just an hour before the announcement, as the party hurriedly arranged the joining of Pabitr…
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) Two senior leaders of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Politburo member and the party’s West Bengal state secretary Md Salim, and central committee member Sujan Chakraborty, a former leader of the Left Legislative parties in the West Bengal Assembly — are unlikely to contest the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state scheduled later this year.The matter was discussed at the state secretariat meeting of the party.A state secretariat member said that the views …
Kolkata, March 12 (IANS) A civic volunteer has been arrested in Howrah on charges of allegedly molesting a teenage girl who later died by suicide, police said on Thursday.According to a senior police officer, the accused civic volunteer was arrested following the incident that took place in Amta under the Howrah Rural Police District on Wednesday.Police said the girl had gone to attend a Kali Puja event in Amta with her mother on Tuesday night. The accused, a civic volunteer attached to Penro Po…
Kolkata, March 9 (IANS) Representatives of different state and central agencies faced the ire of the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, at a crucial meeting between the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) full bench and the nodal officers of different state and central agencies on the forthcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal scheduled later this year.The ECI’s full bench, headed by the CEC, is currently on a two-day visit to West Bengal to review the progress of the judici…
Kolkata, March 6 (IANS) Trinamool Congress national General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday appealed to people to “boycott the BJP” in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, alleging that the party was targeting voters through the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.Banerjee made the remarks while addressing party workers at a sit-in demonstration at Esplanade in central Kolkata to protest against nearly 60 lakh people being placed in the “under adjudication” cate…
Patna, Feb 25 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) Tejashwi Yadav on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Nitish Kumar government over the deteriorating law and order situation in Bihar. Speaking to reporters outside the Bihar Legislative Assembly premises, Tejashwi alleged that murders are taking place daily across the state and that the government has completely lost control over criminals.“Criminals have become completely unbridled. Whoever feels like shooting is shooting. The peo…
Kolkata, Feb 18 (IANS) A joint operation by the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police and the Bihar STF has unearthed an illegal improvised firearms manufacturing unit operating in Bhagalpur district of Bihar, leading to the arrest of five persons, police said on Wednesday.According to the police, the illegal arms factory was operating on the first floor of a house owned by Md. Nasir Ansari, located under the jurisdiction of Madhusudanpur police station in Bhagalpur district. The illegal ma…
Kolkata, Jan 12 (IANS) Trinamool Congress General Secretary and party Lok Sabha member Abhishek Banerjee on Monday directed the party’s Information Technology cell — termed as “Digital Yoddhas” or “Digital Warriors” — to launch a massive digital campaign explaining why the Trinamool Congress is opposing the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) raid and search operations at the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) office and at the residence of I-PAC co-founder Pratik Jain last week.He issued th…
Lucknow, Jan 8 (IANS) Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday contended that the BJP is staring at a defeat in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raids on the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC) being a clear indication of the party’s desperation.”The BJP is badly losing Bengal. First proof!” Akhilesh Yadav wrote on X, responding to a post that highlighted the ED action in West Bengal even before the Assembly election process had…