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EC's decision to ban Mamata from campaigning taken at behest of BJP: Raut

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Tuesday alleged that the Election Commission's decision to bar West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from campaigning for 24 hours was taken at the behest of the BJP

Best of BS Opinion: Board rules for fair play, bloodshed in Bengal & more

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Centre's strategy to control Covid-19 spread 'monumental failure: Congress

Congress said while people are dying across the country the saffron party's leadership is busy campaigning for elections

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee barred from campaigning for 24 hrs

This is in connection to her remarks against central forces and a statement which had alleged religious overtones

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

Bloodshed in Bengal

Violence has become a tragic fixture of state politics

West Bengal: BJP to hold 2,000 small 'potho sabhas' in and around Kolkata

Shah will launch a massive public outreach campaign from Tuesday during which more than 2,000 street corner meetings will be held in over 40 assembly seats, party leaders said on Monday.

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

Prime Minister Modi reaches out to weaker sections at Bengal rally

Modi assured justice to all refugees, Matua and Namasudra and at the same time criticised the Trinamool Congress for equating them with beggars

TMC abusing scheduled castes only because they support BJP: PM Modi

Modi on Monday said Trinamool Congress (TMC) is abusing Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and Other Backward Classes (OBCs) only because they support Bharatiya Janata Party

Politically ban those threatening more Cooch Behar-like killings: Mamata

This was an apparent jibe at state BJP leaders

Mamata 'clean bowled', her entire team asked to leave field: Modi

Modi said on Monday the people of Bengal have hit so many fours and sixes in the first four phases of the assembly polls that the BJP has already completed its century

Congress to intensify campaign in last four phases in West Bengal

The Congress has decided to intensify its campaign in the next four phases of elections in West Bengal, which the party thinks are its strongholds

PM Modi, Amit Shah to hold multiple rallies in poll-bound West Bengal today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address several public programs in poll-bound West Bengal on Monday

LIVE: BJP will end political, election violence in Bengal, says Amit Shah

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Will resign only if people of Bengal ask me: Shah on Cooch Behar killings

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that he is ready to resign from his post only if the people of West Bengal ask him to do so.

Cooch Behar firing: An attempt to intimidate voters, says Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday claimed that the tragedy in Cooch Behar was the "result of a conspiracy" hatched by the saffron party

Cooch Behar firing: Gloom descends on village as bodies taken for burial

A pall of gloom prevailed at Jorepatki village on Sunday as the bodies of four persons, who died when CISF personnel opened fire

Mamata's advice instigated people to attack CISF in Sitalkuchi: Amit Shah

Amit Shah launched a scathing attack against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

Cooch Behar killings: Will give reply of bullets with ballots, says Mamata

A day after the killings of four people in Cooch Behar by the central forces during the fourth phase of polling, Mamata Banerjee said that people will give reply of the bullets with ballots.