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CPI(M) fields candidate in Nandigram against Mamata, Suvendu

The Congress-Left Front-ISF alliance on Wednesday chose CPI(M) youth wing state president Minakshi Mukherjee to contest from Nandigram seat where a war of titans is on the cards

Bengal Guv Dhankhar visits Mamata at hospital; faces TMC supporters ire

Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar reached SSKM hospital on Wednesday night to see an injured CM Mamata Banerjee, amid 'go back' slogans shouted by hundreds of the TMC supporters gathered there

LIVE: Mamata says she was attacked in Nandigram, calls it a conspiracy

Mamata Banerjee rushed to SSKM Hospital in Kolkata after she suffers injury in Nandigram. Stay tuned for latest news live updates.

Will go to Kolkata, urge farmers to defeat BJP in polls: Rakesh TIkait

Farmers are distressed, and election will be discussed with them, Tikait said, adding that he is not going to West Bengal to seek votes

Bengal: BJP fields actor Hiran Chatterjee from Kharagpur Sadar

The BJP on Wednesday named Bengali actor Hiran Chatterjee, who recently joined the party, as its candidate from Kharagpur Sadar assembly seat,

Bengal minister Bachchu Hansda, MLA Gouri Sankar Dutta join BJP

This came after being denied nominations for the assembly polls by the Trinamool Congress

West Bengal polls: Mamata files nomination from Nandigram assembly seat

Accompanied by TMC president Subrata Bakshi, Mamata Banerjee filed her papers at the Haldia sub-divisional office, after taking part in a 2-km roadshow

WB polls: Siliguri shop comes up with BJP, Congress, TMC-themed sweets

Ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, a sweet shop in Siliguri has designed political party symbols on sweets

Form 12D to be circulated for 19,000 voters in West Bengal's Darjeeling

Darjeeling district Election Officer has said that 12D forms will be circulated among 19,000 voters in Darjeeling district for those who have crossed eighty years of age for the West Bengal polls

Trinamool Congress doing politics over dead bodies, disasters: BJP

BJP on Tuesday accused Trinamool Congress of doing politics over dead bodies and disasters as in the New Koilaghat complex fire with an eye on votes

EC doubles broadcast time for parties in 4 poll-going states, 1 UT

This is in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and enhanced relevance of "non-contact based" campaigning

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West Bengal polls: Divisive politics won't work in Nandigram, says Mamata

Coming down hard on those calling her an outsider in Nandigram, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Tuesday for them people "coming from Gujarat" are insiders. Addressing booth-level TMC workers a day ahead of filing her nomination for the seat, Banerjee said people who had "sold their souls to outsiders from Gujarat" are insulting the Nandigram movement by playing the communal card. Banerjee is pitted against her former confidante Suvendu Adhikari, who joined the BJP some time ago, in the high-profile seat. Without naming Adhikari even once, Banerjee said she had made up her mind to contest either from the Singur or Nandigram--the two cradles of anti-land acquisition movement-- that catapulted her to power in 2011. She said she decided to contest from Nandigram because of overwhelming response of the people. "I have heard some people are calling me an outsider in Nandigram. I am amazed. I was born and brought up in the neighbouring Birbhum district, a

Bengal polls: BJP to make inroads but TMC will prevail, predict two surveys

A poll, conducted by TimesNow-CVoter, predicted the ruling TMC could get around 154 of the state's 294 seats, six more than the majority mark of 147

SC rejects plea challenging EC's decision to hold WB polls in 8 phases

The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a plea challenging the Election Commission's (EC) decision to conduct the West Bengal Assembly polls over eight phases

Ahead of Assembly polls, oil companies hold back price hike in March

It appears that the Centre has informally conveyed to the three major OMCs to not revise fuel prices for the time being, two people in the government said

TMC faces fresh spate of defections; 5 sitting MLAs, other leaders join BJP

Hours after being replaced due to 'ill health', Sarala Murmu, the TMC candidate of the Habibpur constituency in Malda district, was among those who switched sides

Bengal 2021 poll: ECI removes SP after TMC makes his wife candidate

The ECI on Monday removed SP Howrah (Rural) Soumya Roy after his wife became a candidate of the ruling Trinamool Congress for the assembly elections in West Bengal, an official said.

Not campaigning in upcoming West Bengal polls: NC's Farooq Abdullah

National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Monday said he does not have time to campaign for the Trinamool Congress in the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections.

Opportunities come but will see where it goes: Ganguly on joining politics

BCCI President Sourav Ganguly kept his cards close to his chest amid mounting speculation that he might take the political plunge ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections