West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
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- Naxalbari chooses ‘good life’ over ideals
In 1967, a summer uprising of peasants and tea garden workers led by radical Left ideologue Charu Majumdar fired the imagination of the young and the restless in pockets of urban India. - Pitch report - Lenin is just a bust in Charu's Naxalbari
In 1967, an uprising of peasants and tea workers led by radical Left ideologue Charu Majumdar fired the young's imagination.China's People's Daily prophesied about the “red area of rural revolutionary CM Mamata Banerjee has set her sights on Delhi."We will not only form the government in Bengal in 2016, but also at the Centre in 2019," she said at an election rally in Islampur on Monday. On campaign trails, the politicians that voters meet are epitomes of humility, apparently dedicated to the well-being of residents. The searing heatwave claimed the life of a resident of Marar village in Bishnupur assembly constituency on Monday, as the 57-year-old Hussain Bayen fell to the ground while waiting in the queue to - Lenin is just a bust in Charu’s Naxalbari
In 1967, an uprising of peasants and tea workers led by radical Left ideologue Charu Majumdar fi red the young’s imagination. China’s People’s Daily prophesied about the “red area of rural - No one willing to rent a house to Mamata-challenger Bose
Chandra Bose, the BJP challenger to CM Mamata Banerjee in her Bhawanipore constituency, is desperately looking for space to set up an election office. He has so far failed to fi nd one. Home owners - Widespread violence mars phase-II of Bengal polls; 1,878 complaints filed
The second phase of Bengal polls, true to the opposition's apprehensions, witnessed widespread violence, often in the presence of central forces, prompting an immediate comparison with the 2014 Lok - Bengal polls witness 59.5% polling till 1 pm
Bengal during the second day of polling in 31 assembly seats in which 163 candidates are contesting observed 59.5% polling till 1 pm on Monday. Midnapore (west) had 65% polling till 1 pm. - Didi's celeb pick hopes to dribble past Left's ace
It's half past nine at night. Bhaichung Bhutia has hitched a ride on an erickshaw. A green kurta and a pair of jeans with a Trinamool stole around his neck, he is an unfamiliar sight.In the collective - Will TMC take a hit because Congress, Left on same side?
Union finance minister Arun Jaitley lashed out at Trinamool Congress, calling its leaders corrupt and accusing the party of patronizing syndicates. Politics is about passion, electoral arithmetic be dammed. An army seldom shows passion, but it is currently the driving force among CPM footsoldiers in this neck of the woods. - Sabang murder gifts TMC ammo in alliance crucible
- 'Social media to play key role in 24% of West Bengal seats'
Compiled by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), political research organisation The Campaign 360, and Facebook India, the data for the report was gathered between March 22 and 31. - Campaigning ends in Assam, Bengal readies for voting on 31 seats
The high-decibel campaign ended on Saturday in Assam where BJP is locked in a riveting contest to wrest power from Congress, with remaining 61 constituencies going to polls on April 11 in the final Ever since survey and land records' department employee Paritosh Kumar Bhor started working out of the Survey Building in Alipore in 1996, this high-profile candidate has unfailingly filed her The city got the first taste of poll fever on a scorching Friday afternoon as prominent leaders across parties drove to Alipore to file nomination papers. - Decoding Didi: Why she is not matching Modi barb for barb
- Nothing unusual in voter surge: EC
The Election Commission insists that there's no abnormality in the sudden rise in voter turnout during the first phase of polls on April 4.Rather, they are happy with the "huge turnout". Syed Qasim Rasool Ilyas, father of JNU student leader Umar Khalid, who was booked on sedition charge, visited Birbhum on Thursday to address two rallies as a campaign for the Welfare Party of India's - Didi seeks minority blessings
A day after pleading with the Bengal electorate not to stop showering blessings on her, chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday sought the good wishes of minorities on the eve of filing her New Town cops had immediately received a flurry of phone calls that day - from Trinamool councillors to locals - demanding the duo's release.
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