Page 41 - West Bengal Assembly Polls

West Bengal polls: Mamata Banerjee to contest from Nandigram

'Today, we are releasing a list of 291 candidates which includes 50 women, 42 Muslim candidates,' says TMC supremo

WB Assembly polls: TMC election panel to meet, list of candidates today

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

Farmer protests: Rakesh Tikait to visit West Bengal 14 days ahead of polls

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

Amit Shah, JP Nadda meet West Bengal leaders to shortlist candidates

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

Dilip Ghosh confident of BJP winning West Bengal elections by 200 seats

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

Yogi Adityanath misleading people, SP will campaign for TMC: Akhilesh

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.

Remove hoardings with PM's photos within 72 hours: ECI to petrol pumps

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

Priority is not to let any fascist force come to power in WB: Tejaswi Yadav

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

Congress forms screening committee for West Bengal elections

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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TMC's appeasement politics endangered national security: UP CM Adityanath

He promised that cow smuggling will be stopped within a day if the BJP is voted to power in the state

Identity politics gaining ground in West Bengal ahead of assembly polls

The state will witness a communally charged electoral battle

Mamata's new Bengal a mixed bag as 'paribartan' has come in bits and pieces

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

Tejashwi tells Biharis in Bengal to back Mamata, keeps mum on alliance

Emerging from a meeting with Banerjee at the state secretariat, Yadav said that the first priority of his party was to stop the BJP's progress in West Bengal

West Bengal polls: Trinamool Congress likely to drop several sitting MLAs

The Trinamool Congress is likely to axe several sitting MLAs from its candidate list

West Bengal polls: Tejashwi Yadav meets Mamata amid speculation of tie-up

Yadav, who led the RJD in its fight against the NDA in the Bihar elections, went to state secretariat Nabanna to meet Banerjee, also the chief minister

Bengal Polls: Mamata Banerjee to chair election committee's meet today

Banerjee is set to chair an election committee meeting on Monday at her residence in Kalighat to look into the selection of candidates and formulate a strategy for the upcoming assembly polls

Mamata will be out of power on May 2: Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Chouhan asserted on Sunday that the BJP will win the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal, and Mamata Banerjee will lose her chief ministership on May 2

At mega rally, Left leaders call for Janhit Sarkar in Bengal

The Left Front, in alliance with the Congress and the newly formed Indian Secular Front (ISF) on Sunday projected itself as a "third alternative force" in West Bengal

Mamata will tie up with BJP in case of hung assembly in Bengal: Yechury

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that the Trinamool Congress has to be defeated first to stop the communal bandwagon of the RSS-BJP