West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
It's poll 'enforcers' vs forces today
- TMC battles late opposition surge today
- All I can say is IGNORE: Roopa
Is it misogyny? Or simple childlike behaviour that prompted Abdur Rezzak Mollah to make sexist comments against actor-turned-politician Roopa Ganguly of the BJP? Bagnan, in Bengal’s Howrah district, has a distinction. The government rural hospital here is the state’s only facility to have a five-star rating awarded for service quality, infrastructure, The 62 seats that poll in the third phase in West Bengal on Thursday can be separated into two clear regions. - Singur back on poll radar
- TMC infighting may scuttle plans in Haringhata
If intimidation has became the key strategy in Bengal this poll season, Haringhata has largely contributed to it. Violence that erupted even before the names of candidates were announced continues - CPM picks up pieces for Burdwan comeback
In 16 seats that will go to polls in Burdwan on April 21, Trinamool Congress was a clear winner in last assembly polls, bagging eight of them. The ruling party has strengthened base with defections - Former minister's home attacked by 'TMC goons'
Reports of poll-related unrest and violence came trickling in from the suburbs and the districts on Tuesday. - MURSHIDABAD - Cong using tie to safeguard own interest?
The Trinamool Congress has nothing to lose so far as the 22 seats in Murshidabad are concerned. It's the Congress that needs to worry. - Anubrata may need oxygen but he is TMC’s go-to man in Birbhum
Election might be over in Birbhum but not Anubrata Mandal's “responsibilities“. The Trinamool strongman's clout could be the make or break factor in neighbouring Burdwan because along with his - Secure Narada sting devices in bank locker: HC
Calcutta high court has directed the custodians of devices used to record the Narada sting videos to keep them in a locker of a nationalised bank and keep the identity of the bank secret. The purpose On the other side of the Bose family divide, Mamata's loyal minister Amit Mitra is campaigning in Kharda in North 24 Parganas. In 2011 this former secretary general of FICCI resigned to join the TMC, The general stepped out of his war-room and the clock turned back... Former CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee rode a red tide in a southern corner of the city as dusk fell on Tuesday, bringing back glimpses When the poll bugle was first sounded, seven-time MLA Sadhan Pandey had thought it would be a cakewalk for him to win back his Manicktala seat. But then came the Narada sting videos and the Unfazed by the series of scam allegations that his party faces, Trinamool's Entally candidate Swarna Kamal Saha asserted that clean drinking water was far more important than Saradha and Narada to the Large-scale violence, which broke out on Cossipore Road during the KMC elections last year, still haunts retired state government employee Bholanath Chatterjee, who was apparently barred from entering BJP candidate Gopal Chatterjee is nowhere in the contest though the party bagged over 4% vote share in the 2011 assembly polls. In 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Trinamool Congress took a lead of over 24,000 Campaign advisor of Manicktala BJP candidate Sunil Roy has registered a complaint of intimidation and physical assault by the leader and his aides. The complainant, who runs her own PR company , was - Now, Vivekananda on Howrah poll canvass
Even Swami Vivekananda seems to have been “roped in“ for the election campaign as a political party with little clout in Bengal uses his photoghraph and quote in its posters. - Adhir urges Left push for Sohrab in friendly fight
The Congress and Left are pulling out all the stops to ensure that they do not lose their strongholds to their election partners--the alliance parties will be pitted against each other in “friendly
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