Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for Bhabanipur by-poll Priyanka Tibrewal has written to the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court seeking preventive measures in case there is post-poll violence after results are declared on Sunday. In the letter, Priyanka Tibrewal has sought strict orders from the Kolkata Police to take all precautionary measures to prevent … Read more
Dismissing a petition questioning the by-election to the Bhabanipur assembly seat, the Calcutta High Court on Tuesday ordered that the poll will be held as scheduled on September 30. However, the court admonished the chief secretary for behaving as a “servant of the political party in power rather than a public servant.” A division bench … Read more
On the last day of the election campaign for the Bhabanipur assembly seat bypoll on Monday, tension escalated in the south Kolkata area ahead of the September 30 elections, as Trinamool Congress supporters allegedly physically harassed former BJP state chief Dilip Ghosh while he was campaigning for Priyanka Tibrewal who is pitted against Mamata Banerjee. … Read more