Politics
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...
