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West Bengal Exit Poll results: TMC walks tightrope; huge gain for BJP

West Bengal Election Exit poll 2021 highlights: Stay tuned for West Bengal election exit poll and result 2021

76% turnout recorded till 5:30 pm in last phase of West Bengal election

Among the four districts, Birbhum recorded the highest voter turnout of 81.82 per cent

Mithun casts vote, congratulates security personnel for peaceful voting

Actor and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mithun Chakraborty on Thursday cast his vote at a polling station in Kashipur-Belgachia area of North Kolkata

Bengal polls: PM Modi asks people to cast votes following Covid protocols

With the eighth and last phase of the West Bengal assembly polls underway on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called upon people to cast their votes to enrich the festival of democracy

WB polls: TMC leader dies of Covid-19, wife files complaint against EC

The widow of Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Khardaha Kajal Sinha, who died of Covid-19 on April 25, has filed a complaint against the Election Commission

West Bengal election 2021 LIVE: 75.06% voter turnout recorded till 5.30 pm

West Bengal election live updates: All eyes will be on Bhabanipur constituency, of which TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is the sitting MLA and a resident. Stay tuned for Bengal election latest updates

West Bengal assembly polls: Stray violence marks first half of 7th phase

Stray incidents of violence were reported Monday from some areas where voting is underway for the seventh phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal

WB polls: EC listens only to PM Modi and Amit Shah, says TMC's Nusrat Jahan

Why was the EC sleeping all this while, asked Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan Ruhi on Monday after the poll body banned public meetings in the ongoing West Bengal assembly elections

EC bans rallies in Bengal; restricts public meets to max 500 people

The order came on a day when the state registered highest single-day spike of 11,948 Covid-19 cases

West Bengal election 2021 LIVE: EC imposes strict curbs on poll campaigns

West Bengal election live updates: Prominent names in the sixth phase of the Assembly polls include BJP's national vice president Mukul Roy. Stay tuned for Bengal election latest updates

WB polls phase six: PM Modi urges voters to exercise their franchise

As voting began for the sixth phase of West Bengal assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday urged the voters to exercise their franchise

Illogic of EC logistics

The rest of WB elections should have been clubbed

EC sets 24-hour campaign ban on BJP's Sayantan Basu, TMC's Sujata Mondal

The Election Commission imposed a 24-hour campaign ban on BJP leader Sayantan Basu and Sujata Mondal of the Trinamool Congress

Will not hold any major rally amid rise in Covid-19 cases: Bengal minister

Days after the Left Front said it would not hold any large-scale public meetings in Bengal amid the steep hike in COVID-19 cases, state minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay, fielded by the TMC from the prized Bhawanipur seat, said on Sunday that he, too, would desist from organising any major rally. Chattopadhyay, who has been entrusted with the job of retaining the Bhawanipur seat after its sitting MLA and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee decided to contest the polls from Nandigram, is the first candidate from the ruling party to have made such a claim. "With the rise of Covid cases, I have decided not to hold any Central Rally in Bhawanipur AC for upcoming Election Campaign, which I have always held in previous elections. Requesting everyone to Wear Mask & stay safe," he tweeted. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has also cancelled his public rallies in West Bengal in view of the worsening COVID-19 situation. Taking to Twitter, he wrote, "In view of the Covid situation, I

West Bengal Polls LIVE: Huge turnout of women, says EC as polling ends

West Bengal election 2021 LIVE: Phase 5 is crucial for Mamata Banerjee, since these are the regions where BJP gained a foothold in 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Stay tuned for Bengal election LIVE updates

Darjeeling polls: Parties stir bitter brew of tourism, tea & tap water

Political observers believe that memories of the 2017 statehood agitation by GJM, which was crushed by West Bengal's TMC, will play a part in the upcoming election

Election Commission working as BJP wing, black day for democracy: TMC

The TMC claimed that the poll panel was behaving like a "wing of the BJP" and its decision smacks of authoritarianism

TMC spreading lies about NRC, it will have no impact on Gorkhas: Amit Shah

Shah asserted on Monday that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) will have no impact on the Gorkhas

Bengal Polls LIVE: CRPF opened fire to save lives of voters, says EC

West Bengal election 2021 LIVE updates: Phase 4 voting today in 44 constituencies. Nine of them are in Howrah, 11 in South 24 Parganas, five in Alipurduar, nine in Cooch Behar and ten in Hooghly

Bengal polls: 4 killed as CISF 'opens fire' after coming under attack

Four persons were killed as CISF personnel allegedly opened fire after coming under attack from locals, who "attempted to snatch their rifles", in West Bengal's Cooch Behar