Bengal Civic Polls. Poll Violence

Transport unions and workers went on a strike across the country on Thursday, but in West Bengal, this took a back seat. The CPM and the BJP separately organised a bandh against what they claimed was violence by Trinamool cadre during the recent civic polls. The bandh turned into a direct face-off between the ruling Trinamool on the one hand and th...

Many professionals in Kolkata spent a night in office in anticipation of trouble during a daylong strike called today by the Left and the BJP to protest against violence in the recent civic polls.

Some bomb throwing between rival parties, some skirmishes, some injuries and one round of police firing. Given the highly charged atmosphere across the state over today's civic elections, worse was expected but trouble was thankfully limited. Assembly elections in West Bengal are due May next year but many say the semi finals were held today with p...

Transport unions and workers went on a strike across the country on Thursday, but in West Bengal, this took a back seat. The CPM and the BJP separately organised a bandh against what they claimed was violence by Trinamool cadre during the recent civic polls. The bandh turned into a direct face-off between the ruling Trinamool on the one hand and th...

Many professionals in Kolkata spent a night in office in anticipation of trouble during a daylong strike called today by the Left and the BJP to protest against violence in the recent civic polls.

Some bomb throwing between rival parties, some skirmishes, some injuries and one round of police firing. Given the highly charged atmosphere across the state over today's civic elections, worse was expected but trouble was thankfully limited. Assembly elections in West Bengal are due May next year but many say the semi finals were held today with p...