Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) BJP IT Cell chief and the party’s co-incharge for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, on Wednesday alleged that the Trinamool Congress is indulging in electoral malpractices in several booths in Diamond Harbour of South 24 Parganas to win the Assembly election during the second and final phase of voting and demanded a repoll.In a X post, Malviya claimed, “This is what Mamata Banerjee was defending when she spoke up for Jehangir Khan, a criminal contesting on a TMC ticket from Fal…
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Kolkata, April 29 (IANS) The Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, said on Wednesday that he is confident of his success even in the polling booth in Bhabanipur constituency in South Kolkata, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, who is the Trinamool Congress general secretary and Lok Sabha member, cast their votes.Mamata Banerjee is the sitting MLA and the Trinamool Congress candidate and also a voter from Bhabanipur Assembly const…
Kolkata, April 28 (IANS) A division bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Tuesday, refused to bridle the Election Commission of India as regards the implementation of “preventive arrests” to ensure free, fair, violence-free polls in the second phase of the two-phase Assembly election in West Bengal on April 29. However, the division bench of the Calcutta High Court’s Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen observed that, although if necessary, the Commission could order p…
Agartala, April 27 (IANS) The newly elected members of the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) from the Tipra Motha Party (TMP) took oath on Monday, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) boycotted the swearing-in ceremony. Law Secretary Sankari Das administered the oath or affirmation to the newly elected TTAADC members at the council headquarters in Khumulwng, around 20 km north of Agartala.A senior TMP leader, requesting anonymity, said that the formal constitution of th…
Kolkata, April 27 (IANS) With the second phase of the Assembly polls in West Bengal scheduled for April 29, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to further strengthen the surveillance mechanism by bringing the approach roads to critical or hypersensitive polling stations under CCTV coverage.“In the first phase of polls, there were two CCTVs within the polling station premises, one within the polling room and the other just outside the polling room, to ensure elimination of electo…
Kolkata, April 26 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Union Minister Smriti Irani on Sunday claimed that Congress leader and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has “accepted that the BJP will emerge victorious” in the West Bengal Assembly polls.Irani was referring to LoP Gandhi’s video message on X, shared a few days back, where he had said: “If Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had run a clean government and had not polarised Bengal, then the BJP would not have go…
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday took a jibe at Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, terming his statement attributing the Trinamool Congress government’s “corruption” for the BJP’s rising chances in the West Bengal Assembly polls, a “late realisation”.”It has been realised very late,” Shah told IANS in reaction to Gandhi, who in a video message on X, had said: “If Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had run a clean government and had not polarised Benga…
Kolkata, April 24 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all set to win at least 110 of the 152 constituencies in the first phase of the West Bengal Assembly polls held on April 23, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on Friday.“We have calculated this figure after a night-long analysis on Thursday. Of the 152 Assembly constituencies for which polling was conducted on Thursday, the BJP candidates will win from at least 110 Assembly constituencies, if not more. We will form the new governmen…
New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Tensions escalated during the first phase of West Bengal Assembly polls after BJP candidate Debashish Ojha’s election agent, Bishwajit Mandal, was allegedly attacked in Birbhum’s Labpur constituency. The incident comes amid reports of sporadic violence and allegations of booth capturing in parts of the state as polling continues.Recounting the incident, Mandal said, “I am an election agent… A few people complained to us that the booth is being captured… On my…
Kolkata, April 23 (IANS) A total of 635 complaints were registered with the Election Commission of India (ECI) till 11 a.m. on Thursday regarding the polling in the first phase of West Bengal Assembly polls covering 152 Assembly constituencies in 16 districtsOf the 635 complaints registered with the ECI, 260 have been submitted physically to the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), while another 375 have been submitted through the C-Vigil app.The complaints were mostly regarding violence…