Page 2 - West Bengal Assembly Elections

TMC bags Shyampukur, Chowringhee seats in Kolkata

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

Counting begins for 294 Assembly seats of West Bengal

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

BJP apprehends more violence post poll results in Bengal

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

The politics of patronage in Mamata's Bengal

Grant of Rs 105 cr given to 7,000 clubs

78.25% voter turnout in fifth phase of West Bengal elections

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

Buddhadeb-Rahul rally, a 'historic' moment for Bengal

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

Aggressive TMC versus a timid Opposition

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

Rahul changes ideology like T-shirt: Trinamool

Derek O'Brien plays videos of two of Gandhi's contradictory speeches -- one made in Kerala in Feb, other in Bengal this month

Rahul attacks Mamata on corruption, unemployment

Congress VP trashes Banerjee's poriborton claim, says there has been no change in the state during past five years

79.22% voter turnout in phase-III of Bengal polls

The Election Commission said here that the turnout could be more as the figures were based on text messages sent by polling officials from the field till 5 pm

Sites of poll battles in West Bengal

The largest chunk of seats in the West Bengal Assembly, 61, will go to the polls on Thursday. Among the constituencies where polling will take place are Farakka and Murshidabad, constituencies in Kolkata such as Chowringhee, Beleghata and Belgachhia, and President Pranab Mukherjee's erstwhile Lok Sabha constituency, Jangipur.Farakka is on the banks of the Ganga, and across the river is Bangladesh. It is at Farakka that the Ganga splits into two rivers. The broader channel goes east to Bangladesh and gets a new name, Padma. The smaller turns south and flows under the name of Bhagirathi, which becomes Hooghly as soon as it approaches Kolkata. Farakka has a famous barrage - the construction began in 1961 and ended in 1975 - and the idea was to divert some of the water from the Bangladesh-bound river to the Kolkata-bound one, to increase the latter's flow and therefore reduce sediment deposition at the Kolkata harbour. Murshidabad is currently represented in the Assembly by Congress strong

West Bengal polls: Control room opened to monitor movement of central forces

Till the first phase, the EC was keeping a tab on the movement of the central forces by taking reports from the district magistrates

Kerala CM Oommen Chandy ready to campaign in West Bengal for Cong-CPI(M)

Chandy was replying to a question on whether the tie up would have an adverse impact in Kerala in the May 16 Assembly polls

Speeches by Modi, Mamata under EC scanner, Molla censured

In a poll rally two days ago, Modi had alleged that TMC stood for "terror, maut (death) and corruption"

Salboni land losers want industry, not land

But the land losers of Salboni sprang a surprise; they refused to take back the plots offered

Assembly Elections 2016: With promise of steel plant, jobs fading, how will Salboni vote?

The TMC government delayed the setting up of a power and steel plant by JSW Steel as it questioned land approvals for the mega project

First phase of West Bengal Assembly polls begins in 18 seats

All the three - Trinamool, Left-Congress alliance and BJP - have fielded candidates from all 18 seats

Mamata will suffer same fate as Indira in 1977: Swaraj

External Affairs Minister claims flyover collapse in Kolkata proved depth of corruption into which TMC govt has sunk

BJP releases manifesto for polls, says will drive out infiltrators from Bengal

Former state president of BJP Rahul Sinha claimed there were nearly 2.5 crore infiltrators in West Bengal

Rahul Gandhi hits out at PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee

Gandhi accused the prime minister and Mamata of trying to kill democracy in the country and West Bengal, respectively