Politics
CID Takes Over Probe in Cooch Behar CISF Firing That Killed 4
File pic of the Injured being treated after the Cooch Behar clashes. (PTI) A Special Investigation Team of the Criminal Investigation Department has been constituted to conduct the probe in the incident which happened during the fourth phase of polling at Sitalkuchi. PTI Kolkata Last Updated:April 16, 2021, 14:00...
How Final Stretch of PM’s Bengal Campaign Could Look Like
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to hold six more rallies in West Bengal, including in key seats such as Malda, Murshidabad, Kolkata South and Bolpur, before the assembly election campaign ends in the state, News18 has learnt. Bolpur is the land known for Shantiniketan and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore....
BJP Cancels Ticket of Unnao Rape Convict Kuldeep Sengar’s Wife Sangeeta
Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has withdrawn the ticket it had given to Sangeeta Sengar, wife of former MLA and rape accused Kuldeep Singh Sengar, days after declaring her the official candidate of the party. The local BJP chief has been asked to send in fresh names for...
EC Trying to Suppress Facts by Barring Entry of Politicians in Cooch Behar: Mamata
Siliguri: Describing the incident of firing in Cooch Behar as a “genocide”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday said the Election Commission has restricted the entry of politicians in the district for 72 hours as it seeks to “suppress facts”. The TMC supremo, while addressing a press...
Nadda Confident of BJP’s Success in All Poll-bound States, Says TMC Has Conceded Defeat in Bengal
BJP national president JP Nadda exuded confidence of his party forming the next government in West Bengal, continuing to govern in Assam, while remaining a key part of the ruling alliance in Tanil Nadu. He also sounded assured of coming to power in Puducherry and becoming a key force...
Reports Pour in of Violation of Covid Rules During Campaigning
As the second wave of Covid-19 ravages India, a lot of focus has been on religious events and assembly election campaigning in several states displaying a flagrant violation of pandemic protocol. Similar contravention of norms, however, has been on during canvassing for bypolls to be held in many parts...
EC Meeting on Bengal Polls Today Over Covid Situation
Assembly Elections 2021 News Live Updates: Amid rising Covid-19 cases in the country, the Election Commission has called for an all-party meeting to discuss campaign-related matters on Friday. The Election Commission came under criticism of the TMC, with Mamata Banerjee and Mahua Moitra pointing out that West Bengal did...
What BJP Leaders Said After Sitalkuchi is Scary, Vote For Didi to Save Bengal: Nusrat Jahan
Trinamool Congress (TMC) parliamentarian and popular film star Nusrat Jahan was the centre of attention in her Lok Sabha constituency, Basirhat, on Wednesday. Jahan, adorned with a bright yellow dupatta, held an open-jeep road show in the dusty lanes of Ward Number 15 here, waving at people and drumming...
Mamata Says Cooch Behar Tragedy a Conspiracy by BJP to Scare Voters, Calls it ‘Murder of Democracy’
Urging people not to vote for “trigger-happy BJP”, 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 to intimidate voters. Amid polling for the fourth phase of elections on Saturday, four persons...
Amit Shah’s Retort to Mamata on Cooch Behar Killings
Union Minister & BJP leader Amit Shah in Basirhat Dakshin Amit Shah alleged that she is opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act to appease illegal immigrants, who he claimed take benefits of welfare schemes but indulge in riots. PTI Last Updated:April 11, 2021, 19:40 IST FOLLOW US ON: Union Home...
More Cooch Behar-like Killings Possible, Warns Dilip Ghosh; TMC Demands His Arrest
Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh. Strongly reacting to the BJP leader’s statement, TMC demanded his arrest while the CPI(M) said the comment “unmasks the saffron party’s fascist face”. PTI Kolkata Last Updated:April 11, 2021, 22:02 IST FOLLOW US ON: West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Sunday courted fresh...
Amit Shah Playing Divisive Politics Over Cooch Behar Incident: TMC
The Trinamool Congress on Sunday accused Union Home Minister Amit Shah of engaging in divisive politics over the death of five people in Cooch Behar district during the fourth phase of polling. Senior party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy told reporters here that Shah was knowingly...
Congress Banks on Rahul’s Bengal Rallies, BJP Hopes They Will End Up Hurting Mamata’s TMC
“We are booking a big ground. Thirty thousand to forty thousand people will be there.” The palpable excitement in the voice of Sankar Malakar, who has been the Congress MLA from Siliguri’s Matigara-Naxalbari seat for the last decade, cannot be missed even on the phone. Malakar, also the working...
Mamata ‘Clean Bowled’, Her Entire Team Asked to Leave Field, Says PM Modi
Drawing a cricket analogy, Prime Minister Narendra 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 and the TMC is on course to being wiped out....
BJP Leader Shot At, Seriously Injured by Assailants in Kannauj Ahead of UP Panchayat Polls
A BJP leader was shot at and seriously injured by unidentified assailants in Chandapur area of the district, police said on Monday. The 48-year-old BJP leader Neeraj Pandey was shot at on Sunday night while he was returning home after seeking votes for a panchayat poll candidate. Superintendent of...
Those Threatening More Cooch Behar-like Killings Should Be Banned Politically: Mamata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, in an apparent jibe at state BJP leaders, said on Monday that those threatening of more Cooch Behar-like killings should be banned politically. She wondered what kind of human beings are politicians who say that there will be more Sitalkuchi-like incidents and that...
AAP Will Contest All 40 Assembly Seats in Goa, No Need for Alliance, says Manish Sisodia
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will not ally with any other outfit for the 2022 Goa Assembly polls and will contest all 40 seats on its own strength, the party’s senior leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said on Monday. He said his party was the alternative...
EC Says No Plan to Club Last 3 Phases of West Bengal Polls, Ends Speculation
The Election Commission on Thursday dismissed speculation that the last three phases of assembly polls in West Bengal could be clubbed in view of the surge in coronavirus cases in the country. Since this morning, there has been speculation in the media that the last three phases of the...
