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Bengal Polls: Mamata Banerjee to chair election committee's meet today

Banerjee is set to chair an election committee meeting on Monday at her residence in Kalighat to look into the selection of candidates and formulate a strategy for the upcoming assembly polls

Congress-Left-ISF alliance not a threat to BJP in WB: Kailash Vijayvargiya

In the third phase, 31 constituencies in 3 districts will go to polls on April 6. 44 constituencies in five districts will go for polling on April 10"

Trinamool Congress forms 12-member committee for West Bengal polls

The Trinamool Congress on Friday announced a 12-member election committee that will look into the selection of candidates and plan a campaign for the upcoming assembly polls. The panel will be headed by West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, party's secretary-general Partha Chatterjee said after its core committee meeting. Senior party leaders, MPs and MLAs are other members of the committee, he said. Subrata Bakshi, Abhishek Banerjee, Sudip Banerjee, Derek O Brien, Sougata Roy and C M Jatua are members of the election panel. Firhad Hakim, Subrata Mukherjee, Partha Chatterjee Chandrima Bhattacharya and Aroop Biswas are also part of the team. According to party sources, the TMC leaders had extensively discussed the issues related to the selection of candidates and planned for the campaign. "Selection of the candidates will be an important thing this time and inputs from election strategist Prashant Kishor and his team I-PAC will play an important

Political violence has reached 'new high' under TMC govt: Rajnath

Senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh on Friday said political violence has reached a 'new high under the TMC dispensation

West Bengal election 2021 in 8 phases from March 27; counting on May 2

West Bengal election 2021: Mamata has pitched this election as a contest between the people of Bengal and 'outsiders'. Meanwhile, political pundits expect BJP's meteoric rise in Bengal

Mamata visits Abhishek's residence ahead of CBI examination in coal case

The TMC supremo was at the Abhishek's house for around ten minutes

TMC leader Abhishek's wife replies to CBI, asks them to visit her on Feb 23

Earlier on Sunday, CBI served a notice to Rujira Banerjee Naroola, the wife of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek asking her to join the investigation related to the coal scam case

Bengal polls LIVE: Amit Shah promises 33% reservation for women if BJP wins

It is for the first time in the run up to the elections that Mamata Banerjee and Shah are holding rallies in the same district. Stay tuned for West Bengal election 2021 campaigns LIVE updates

BJP will end cut-money culture, bring development: Amit Shah in Bengal

He said the BJP's 'Parivartan Yatra' is not for changing a chief minister, an MLA or a minister but ending infiltration and transforming West Bengal into a developed state

TMC calls Trivedi ungrateful after he quits RS seat, BJP welcomes him

The TMC on Friday called party leader Dinesh Trivedi "ungrateful" after he resigned from his Rajya Sabha seat, while the BJP, jubilant over his decision, invited him to join its camp

Party was unaware if Trivedi had issues, his resignation not a setback: TMC

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP said he is unable to bear various incidents that are happening in West Bengal

Development only possible when Mamata leaves, lotus blooms in WB: JP Nadda

Development in West Bengal is only possible when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leaves and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'kamal' (lotus) blooms, said BJP national President JP Nadda on Wednesday

Won't allow BJP to turn Bengal into crematorium, says Mamata Banerjee

Ahead of the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged the people of the state to show the door to Bharatiya Janta party

Sent names of 250,000 Bengal farmers to Centre for PM Kisan scheme: Mamata

The move comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi slammed the TMC dispensation for not implementing central schemes in West Bengal

Ahead of polls, BJP plans 5 'Parivartan Yatras' across Bengal from Feb 6

The first of the five 'yatras' will be flagged off by party president JP Nadda on February 6, BJP General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said

At all-party meeting, Trinamool Congress requests govt to repeal farm laws

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday appealed to the government to withdraw the three contentious farm laws at an all-party meeting convened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi

West Bengal assembly polls should be violence-free, says governor

West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Saturday paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary

Mamata govt moves resolution against farm laws in assembly amid BJP walkout

BJP MLAs staged a noisy walkout

Disgruntled MLA Dalmiya expelled from TMC for anti-party activities

This comes ahead of assembly elections in the state

West Bengal minister resigns from Mamata Banerjee cabinet ahead of polls

West Bengal forest minister Rajib Banerjee on Friday quit the Mamata Banerjee cabinet