At least 415 companies of central forces will be deployed for the first phase of polling on March 27 in West Bengal, a senior official said on Saturday.
BJP on Saturday released its first list of 57 candidates for the West Bengal assembly polls
Former TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi joined the BJP, accusing Mamata Banerjee of abandoning her principles
Earlier in the day, he joined the BJP at its headquarters in New Delhi in the presence of saffron party president J P Nadda
The first meeting of the Central Election Committee of Congress is likely to be held today to finalise the names of candidates for the first two phases of the West Bengal and Assam Assembly polls
CM will contest from Nandigram; state FM dropped
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'Today, we are releasing a list of 291 candidates which includes 50 women, 42 Muslim candidates,' says TMC supremo
Ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) Election Committee meeting is scheduled to be held on Friday at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's residence in Kolkata, sources stated
Farmers protesting against the 3 Central laws at Delhi borders are making strategies for future. They have announced series of Mahapanchayats to be held across the country including poll bound states
BJP sources said that on wednesday core committee of the West Bengal party unit shortlisted the names of the probable candidates recommended by district units
Ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections, state party chief Dilip Ghosh said on Thursday said the Bharatiya Janata Party will definitely win by 200 of the total 294 Assembly seats
Akhilesh Yadav accused UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday of misleading the people in West Bengal and said the party would campaign in favour of the TMC for the Assembly election.
The use of the prime minister's photograph in such hoardings violates the Model Code of Conduct (MCC), the official of the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) said
RJD leader and son of former Bihar Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tejaswi Yadav, on Tuesday said their priority and duty is not to let any communal and fascist force come to power in Bengal
The Congress on Tuesday constituted the party's screening committee for the eight-phased West Bengal Assembly polls starting March 27
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He promised that cow smuggling will be stopped within a day if the BJP is voted to power in the state
The state will witness a communally charged electoral battle
Icra data shows that in per capita income (at current prices), the state is behind AP, Goa, Telangana, Karnataka, Haryana, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, among others