Kolkata, April 5 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released a list of its star campaigners, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, for the West Bengal Assembly polls.According to the official list, BJP national president Nitin Nabin, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Union Ministers Nitin Gadkari, J.P. Nadda and Dharmendra Pradhan, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, and several other senior leaders will campaign in the state.Other promi…
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Kolkata, April 4 (IANS) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday directed the suspension of four officers of Kolkata Police, including a deputy commissioner ranking officer, in relation to the tension near the convoy of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and West Bengal Assembly LoP Suvendu Adhikari on April 1. The convoy was approaching the Alipore Survey Building in South Kolkata, where Adhikari was supposed to file his nomination for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency.The four polic…
Kharagpur, April 4 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday, claimed that a strong wave of change is sweeping across the state, asserting that people from all regions are united in their demand for political transformation ahead of the upcoming state polls. Speaking to IANS during an election campaign in Kharagpur, LoP Adhikari said, “There is only one wave across the whole of Bengal, from Darjeeling to Digha and from Cooch Behar to Kakdwip. Ev…
Kolkata, April 3 (IANS) Kolkata Police on Friday issued summons for interrogation to two Trinamool Congress councillors of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) in connection with the prolonged tension outside the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, in central Kolkata, following protest demonstrations by ruling party activists that began on Tuesday and continued till Thursday.The two councillors summoned are Santi Ranjan Kundu from Ward 32 and Sachin Kumar Singh from Ward…
Patna, March 30 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition, Tejashwi Yadav, alleged on Monday that Bihar Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar, resigned from his post as a Member of the Legislative Council (MLC) under pressure from the BJP.Reacting to the development, Tejashwi said that while it is customary for a leader elected to another legislative body to resign from their earlier position, the situation in Nitish Kumar’s case appears different.“This is not just a procedural matter. The decision has been ta…
Chandigarh, March 29 (IANS) Senior officials of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) from Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh met here to monitor key cases, discuss strengthening of financial investigations and inter-agency coordination, an official said on Sunday.The meeting was a part of the NCB’s quarterly exercise of regional meetings to promote data-driven enforcement and promote multi-agency investigation, said the official in a statement.In a message on X, the NCB said, “The meeting reviewed…
Agartala/Thiruvananthapuram, March 26 (IANS) Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha is set to address two major election rallies in Kerala on Thursday as part of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for the state’s upcoming 140-member Assembly elections.According to BJP sources in Agartala, Saha departed for Bengaluru on Wednesday afternoon and reached Kannur on Thursday morning. Later in the day, he will address an election convention at Chandragiri Auditorium in support of BJP candidate Pr…
Kolkata, March 25 (IANS) Trinamool Congress, on Wednesday, approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) seeking the immediate removal of the new returning officer (RO), appointed for Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in South Kolkata, where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, a Trinamool Congress candidate, is pitted against Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate.On March 23, the ECI ordered the replacement of as many…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) The parents of the doctor who became the victim of the ghastly rape and murder within the premises at the state-run R.G. Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, in August 2024, have accepted the basic membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), confirmed the Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari on Monday. However, he added, the party leadership is yet to decide whether any one of them would be the party candidate from Pani…
Kolkata, March 23 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court, on Monday, granted an interim shield to Suvendu Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the West Bengal Assembly, from any coercive police action in an FIR registered against him at Khardah Police Station in North 24 Parganas district.The single-judge bench of Justice Ajoy Kumar Mukherjee granted the interim shield to Adhikari for 12 weeks till July and ruled that till further orders, the police will not be able to tak…