West Bengal election 2021 LIVE updates: 72 per cent voter turnout recorded till 5 pm. TMC and BJP are contesting in all the 30 seats. Stay tuned for LIVE updates on West Bengal election 2021 Phase 2
A media vehicle was vandalised in Nandigram by unidentified miscreants
The matter is likely to come up for hearing on April 8
As soon as Banerjee reached Boyal, BJP supporters started chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' slogans
Voting in Nandigram is underway amid multiple allegations of disruptions by the Trinamool Congress
In the Boyal area in Nandigram, villagers alleged that BJP supporters had stopped them from going to the polling booths
Javadekar refused to answer another question on West Bengal polls, saying the press meet was for the Dadasaheb Phalke award
Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra on Thursday alleged that over 150 Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) are malfunctioning since the second phase of the West Bengal elections began on Thursday
Voter turnout for the second phase of polling in West Bengal notched as much as 15.72 per cent in about three hours as over 7,500,000 electorate began voting in 30 Assembly seats on Thursday
A voter turnout of 13.14 per cent was recorded till 9 am on Thursday in the second phase of the assembly elections in West Bengal
Suvendu Adhikari is one of the most talked-about leaders in West Bengal as he quit the TMC after an almost two-decade association and joined the BJP last year as he apparently felt sidelined
Banerjee, the indomitable fighter is a writer, poet and painter who had ended the decades-long rule of the Left Front but after two successive terms faces a major challenge to her political career
Elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly is being conducted in eight phases
Banerjee, who has been seeking votes sitting on a wheelchair following a foot injury on March 10, got back on her feet to sing the national anthem as campaigning comes to an end for Nandigram
The final day of the campaigning saw hectic canvassing for the Nandigram seat in Purba Medinipur district
All eyes are on battleground Nandigram, where Mamata Banerjee has locked horns with her protege-turned-rival Adhikari. Stay tuned for LIVE updates as we track poll campaigns of political parties
Modi visited Bangladesh from March 26 to 27 to attend the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the country's independence
She also said why the BJP engages in hooliganism as they know they are facing a defeat in the ongoing assembly elections
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker from Nimta, Gopal Majumdar's 85-year-old mother, Shobha Majumdar, who was allegedly beaten up by Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers last month in the North 24 Parganas district, died in the wee hours of Monday.Taking to Twitter, BJP National President JP Nadda said: "I wish peace to Nimta's old mother Shobha Majumdar's soul. She had to sacrifice her life for her son Gopal Majumdar being in BJP. BJP will always remember her sacrifice. She was Bengal's 'mother' as well as its 'daughter'. BJP will always fight for the safety of Bengal's mothers and daughters."Union Home Minister Amit Shah also condoled the death of the octagenarian mother of the BJP candidate, saying her death will haunt West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for long."Anguished over the demise of Bengal's daughter Shova Majumdar ji, who was brutally beaten by TMC goons. The pain & wounds of her family will haunt Mamata didi for long. Bengal will fight for a violence-free ...
The Phase 1 of polling is expected to witness a tight contest between the saffron party BJP and the ruling TMC