The Calcutta High Court on Tuesday directed the West Bengal State Election Commission that CCTV surveillance be maintained in every booth for the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) polls to be held on December 19. The court also said electronic surveillance should be ensured in strong rooms where EVMs will be stored following the elections. A … Read more
The Shiv Sena on Monday said the West Bengal election results have proved that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah are not invincible. An editorial in the Sena mouthpiece ‘Saamana’ said out of four states (West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Kerala) and a Union Territory (Puducherry) which recently went to … Read more
Shiva Sen has already hailed her as a ‘Bengali tigress.’ The underlying message being: If she can come out tops against such odds, so can we. Synopsis The suspense of the last few weeks over whether or not Mamata Banerjee ‘will make it’ helped her in more ways than one. It made her into a … Read more
The Election Commission (EC) has issued a notice to West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee for her alleged statements against central armed police forces deputed on election duty in the state. The notice issued on Thursday night said Banerjee prima facie violated various sections of the Indian Penal Code with her … Read more
BJP national president J P Nadda on Wednesday asserted that the high percentage of polling in the first phase is proof enough of a change of guard in West Bengal, as people have lost faith in the “corrupt” TMC regime. Nadda also lauded the Election Commission for conducting “peaceful elections” in spite of “TMC goons” … Read more
Teams of BJP workers from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are helping their Bengal counterparts in the party’s backroom election management operations as they are trying to replicate the party’s electoral victories in the UP assembly elections of 2017 and that of Bihar last year. The focus is to import the “successful” booth management strategies deployed … Read more
In a show of strength ahead of the assembly polls, BJP president J P Nadda Tuesday conducted a roadshow in Bishnupur area of Bankura district, which will go to polls in the first and second phases on March 27 and April 1. Nadda started the roadshow at around 2:10 pm from Kumari Talkies cinema hall. … Read more
KOLKATA: The Election Commission of India (ECI) is likely to use its booth mobile application in a full-fledged manner during the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal to root out bogus electors, prevent duplication of voting and quickly bring out details of the polling process, an official said on Tuesday. If introduced, West Bengal will … Read more
Nandigram: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee kicked off the Trinamool Congress’s campaign for the assembly elections on Monday, announcing that she will contest the polls from Nandigram — a political gambit aimed at the BJP‘s Suvendu Adhikari who won the seat in 2016 as a TMC candidate, while also retroceding to the land movement … Read more