West Bengal Assembly Elections

On October 16, the Election Commission of India announced the assembly election schedule for Maharashtra and Jharkhand. Watch the video for the key dates and major alliances.

Campaigning for the West Bengal Assembly elections has intensified with the poll date inching closer. Voting is slated to be held from March 27 to April 29 in 8 phases. The counting will take place on May 2nd. Business Standard's Sukanya Roy went around the streets of Kolkata to find out what people think about the upcoming State election. Watch the video to know more

Recently, the CBI served a notice on the wife of TMC leader and CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee, asking her to join the probe in a coal pilferage case. Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, coal and cattle scams seem to be taking a political hue in the state. Several BJP leaders, including Amit Shah, have drawn references to an alleged multi-crore coal scam that the CBI is investigating in the poll-bound state. But what is this coal scam and why is it relevant in today’s political scene in West Bengal? Watch the video to know more

Shah addressed the rally from New Delhi as part of the BJP's nationwide 'Jan Samvad' campaign

The BJP won 18 seats out of a 42 Lok Sabha seats last year compared to the 22 won by Chief Minister Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) party, and the have been at loggerheads since then

Dhankar has been vocal against the state government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic

Banglar Gorbo Mamata campaign is aimed at creating a personality cult ahead of the West Bengal election

Election strategist Prashant Kishor, who helped the AAP, is helping the Trinamool

Modi accused Banerjee of "spreading rumours" and being "scared", keeping in mind the 2021 West Bengal Assembly polls.

Vijayvargiya and former TMC leader Mukul Roy are among the leaders who are considered to have played a key role in making the BJP a potent force in West Bengal

West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that there were many reasons for the defeat and the party would review them

The Trinamool has favoured passage of the GST Bill and also mentioned it in its manifesto during the 2014 Lok Sabha and 2011 assembly elections

The Congress-Left combine is ahead in 72 seats and BJP, in seven

TMC ahead of its rivals, leading in 212 seats, Congress-Left combine ahead in 68 and BJP in seven

Several exit polls have predicted that Mamata Banerjee will return to power in the state

Says if administration fails to control post poll trouble, BJP will be 'provoked' to seek help of the governor and the Centre

Grant of Rs 105 cr given to 7,000 clubs

This is against 82.77% final voting recorded during 2011 assembly polls in Hoogly, Kolkata South district & South 24-Parganas

Crowd cheers call to 'oust TMC, save Bengal', as Buddhadeb accuses Trinamool of creating environment of fear in the state

Nanoor, one of 11 Assembly constituencies in West Bengal's Birbhum district, has seen a series of violent clashes in recent years