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Bengal's face has changed in 5 years, claims TMC music video

TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee released the video on her Facebook page last night

Assembly elections: 586 candidates in fray for first phase of Assam poll

First phase of assembly elections will be held on April 4

Assembly elections: Left Front manifesto promises to restore freedom of opinion

Election in West Bengal will be held in six phases in which the polling for the first phase will take place on April 4

Polling in five states in April-May; Bengal will vote on seven days

Votes polled in all five states will be counted on May 19

Assam polls: AGP comes out with first list of candidates

Polls in Assam will take place in two phases with 65 of the 126 constituencies in first phase on April 4 and rest 61 on April 11

Letters: Alliance pros and cons

Apropos the report, "Tie-up yet to be sealed, Cong, CPI(M) holding joint protest" (March 3), with Assembly elections due in West Bengal this year, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has asked its state unit to seek the cooperation of all "democratic forces" to defeat the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and isolate the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress high command has also reciprocated this intent.Although leaders of the two parties are trying to project their possible alliance as the people's desire to see a democratic secular front taking on the TMC, the actual story is different. If for the CPI(M), the alliance is a desperate attempt to regain power in West Bengal, for the Congress it is the last resort to remain relevant in state politics.After the Left Front was decimated in the 2011 Assembly polls in the state, it also suffered setbacks in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The Congress has also lost vote share in Murshidabad and two other north Bengal districts. A bulk o