New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) As AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi declared that his party will contest the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal in alliance with former Trinamool Congress leader Humayun Kabir’s newly-formed Aam Janata Unnayan Party (AJUP), the Congress on Monday launched a sharp attack and said that “thank you, Asaduddin Owaisi. You have removed your mask — the mask of secularism — and shown the world your true communal face”. It called the AIMIM leader the “true compani…
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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/Agartala, March 22 (IANS) A retired jawan of Tripura’s elite Tripura State Rifles (TSR) has stepped into the political arena, actively participating in the ongoing West Bengal Assembly elections.A former Rifleman (General Duty) of the TSR, Tarak Saha’s entry into the electoral battle marks a notable transition from a disciplined life in uniform to the dynamic and challenging world of politics.Saha, who opted for voluntary retirement from the TSR in 2019, is contesting from Swarupnaga…
Kolkata, March 21 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Saturday launched his campaign for the Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in south Kolkata, claiming that panic over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) is evident in the body language of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Adhikari, this time, is contesting simultaneously from Bhabanipur, where the Trinamool Congress candidate is the Chief Minister, as well as from Nandigram in East Midnapore district,…
Ranchi, March 20 (IANS) The Congress, on Friday, termed it a ‘welcome step’ as the mother of the Kolkata RG Kar rape and murder case victim expressed her intention to contest the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket. Reacting to the development, Congress leader Rakesh Sinha said that if the RG Kar victim’s mother wishes to enter politics with the aim of seeking justice, it should be encouraged.He noted that the decision reflects a desire to raise quest…
Kolkata, Mar 20 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Friday, accused an officer-in-charge of a police station in his native district of East Midnapore of making a WhatsApp call to a prominent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader from the district and asking the latter to join Trinamool Congress. “The day when the list of BJP candidates was announced by our leadership, our prominent leader from the district, Biswanath Banerjee, who was expected to be …
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, has approached the Calcutta High Court seeking a comprehensive list of criminal cases pending against him.Adhikari, who is contesting from the Bhabanipur and Nandigram constituencies this time, has sought the court’s intervention ahead of filing his nomination papers. He has already begun campaigning in Bhabanipur, while also taking legal steps to secure clarity on his disclosures.In his petition, …
Kolkata, March 19 (IANS) Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, on Thursday, accused the West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the state of indulging in ‘atrocities’.He made the accusation upon his arrival in the state’s Bhabanipur constituency to campaign for the upcoming Assembly elections.West Bengal will vote in two phases in the Assembly elections scheduled to be held on April 23 and April 29. The results will be announced o…
Kolkata, March 18 (IANS) Like the Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, suspended Trinamool Congress legislator Humayun Kabir, who recently floated his own political party, will contest simultaneously from two Assembly constituencies in the minority-dominated Murshidabad district in the forthcoming two-phase Assembly polls in the state next month.However, he will not contest from the Bharatpur Assembly constituency in Murshidabad district, from where he was elected in 2021. Inste…
Kolkata, March 17 (IANS) The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced 291 candidates for the two-phase April elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly, dropping almost all the leaders under the scanner of central agencies in various scams, while nearly a fifth of the nominees are women. There are a total of 52 women candidates, including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, or around 18 per cent of the total candidates. The Chief Minister is contesting from Bhabanipur in south Kolkata, where th…