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After polls are announced, law and order become responsibility of EC: TMC

'You have to understand the chronology. You remove the DGP, leave a woman chief minister's security less and then attack her,' says TMC leader Derek O'Brien

Gowda expresses concerns over alleged attack on WB CM Mamata Banerjee

Former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Thursday expressed concern over the alleged attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

Notice to EC seeking to debar poll campaigners for covid protocol violation

A legal notice has been sent to the Election Commission of India seeking to debar election campaigners for violation of Covid-19 protocol during campaigning in Assembly elections

TMC workers protest across Bengal over alleged attack on Mamata Banerjee

Trinamool Congress activists took out rallies across West Bengal on Thursday, protesting against an alleged attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Purba Medinipur's Nandigram

Dilip Ghosh demands CBI probe into attack on West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

BJP's West Bengal unit president Dilip Ghosh demanded a CBI probe into the alleged attack on Banerjee, saying that it needs to be seen whether the incident was a "well-scripted drama" to garner votes

TMC, BJP leaders to meet top electoral officer today over attack on Mamata

A Trinamool Congress delegation will hold a meeting with the Chief Electoral Officer in Kolkata over the Nandigram incident, in which state's CM Mamata Banerjee was allegedly attacked and injured

WB Assembly polls: TMC defers manifesto release after 'attack' on Mamata

Trinamool Congress has deferred its manifesto release scheduled for today following an alleged attack on party chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee

Best of BS Opinion: Monetisation lessons from NHAI, recovery risks & more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

206 nomination papers found valid for 1st phase of Bengal assembly polls

After scrutiny of nomination papers filed for 30 constituencies in Bengal's first phase of assembly election, the authorities found those of 206 candidates valid, a CEO official said on Wednesday

Bengal poll observers meet govt officials, discuss law and order

Special Observer for the West Bengal assembly elections Ajay Nayak and Special Police Observer Vivek Dubey on Wednesday met senior state government officials and discussed the issue of law and order

Mamata injured during campaign in Nandigram, alleges 'conspiracy'

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Wednesday that she was injured in one of her legs after being allegedly pushed during the election campaign in Nandigram.

Poriborton without change

Mamata faces off against former disciple-turned-defector Adhikari in a very different contest in Nandigram. It's not land acquisition but an ego clash that has acquired, tragically, communal overtones

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