Kolkata Polls

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Saayoni Ghosh enjoyed food and talked about Mamata Banerjee with host Kunal Vijayakar.

The Trinamool Congress will launch its Lok Sabha poll campaign with a grand rally on Sunday at Kolkata's famed Brigade Parade Grounds, where party supremo Mamata Banerjee is expected to set the tone for the upcoming elections.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda arrived in Kolkata in the early hours of Tuesday, a party leader said.

The ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday steamrolled to a massive victory in West Bengal's violence-scarred rural polls, bagging all zila parishads and leaving its rivals trailing way behind in results declared by the State Election Commission.

The Calcutta High Court today dismissed petitions seeking that the 2023 West Bengal panchayat election be declared void because of non-compliance with the basic principles of the Constitution and the statute to ensure free and fair polls.

Fresh polling is underway today at over 600 booths across 19 districts of West Bengal where voting for panchayat elections was declared void amid allegations of tampering with ballot boxes and the violence that left 15 people dead, officials said.

West Bengal Police on Monday recovered body of a BJP leader, Bankim Hansda, from the Bodo area of the state's Purulia district.

West Bengal Panchayat Polls: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday criticised the ongoing violence in Panchayat polls and said that the violence can be described as politics of "murder", "intimidation" and of "muscle flexing".

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saugata Roy on Monday stated that the party's decision to choose Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the Panchayat Poll campaign has nothing to do with the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) strength in the state.

West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday said incidents of violence in the run-up to the rural polls are "a reality and not fiction", which he is focused on containing.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will start a two-day dharna in Kolkata today as the Trinamool Congress sharpens its attack on the BJP ahead of the panchayat polls in the state.

JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy today called on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her residence in Kolkata and requested the TMC boss to campaign in the upcoming Karnataka assembly polls.

During the 2021 Bengal assembly polls, Mr Yadav had announced his support for the Trinamool Congress, which was reciprocated by Ms Banerjee when she campaigned for the former UP chief minister during the 2022 elections in that state.

The Samajwadi Party will organise its two-day national executive in Kolkata from March 18 to discuss the party's policies and strategies for assembly elections in the three Hindi heartland states later this year and Lok Sabha polls next year.

The Congress will move to court seeking the deployment of central forces to ensure that the upcoming panchayat polls in West Bengal are held peacefully and in a fair manner.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Saayoni Ghosh enjoyed food and talked about Mamata Banerjee with host Kunal Vijayakar.

The Trinamool Congress will launch its Lok Sabha poll campaign with a grand rally on Sunday at Kolkata's famed Brigade Parade Grounds, where party supremo Mamata Banerjee is expected to set the tone for the upcoming elections.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda arrived in Kolkata in the early hours of Tuesday, a party leader said.

The ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday steamrolled to a massive victory in West Bengal's violence-scarred rural polls, bagging all zila parishads and leaving its rivals trailing way behind in results declared by the State Election Commission.

The Calcutta High Court today dismissed petitions seeking that the 2023 West Bengal panchayat election be declared void because of non-compliance with the basic principles of the Constitution and the statute to ensure free and fair polls.

Fresh polling is underway today at over 600 booths across 19 districts of West Bengal where voting for panchayat elections was declared void amid allegations of tampering with ballot boxes and the violence that left 15 people dead, officials said.

West Bengal Police on Monday recovered body of a BJP leader, Bankim Hansda, from the Bodo area of the state's Purulia district.

West Bengal Panchayat Polls: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Monday criticised the ongoing violence in Panchayat polls and said that the violence can be described as politics of "murder", "intimidation" and of "muscle flexing".

Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Saugata Roy on Monday stated that the party's decision to choose Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the Panchayat Poll campaign has nothing to do with the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) strength in the state.

West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose on Monday said incidents of violence in the run-up to the rural polls are "a reality and not fiction", which he is focused on containing.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will start a two-day dharna in Kolkata today as the Trinamool Congress sharpens its attack on the BJP ahead of the panchayat polls in the state.

JD(S) leader H D Kumaraswamy today called on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at her residence in Kolkata and requested the TMC boss to campaign in the upcoming Karnataka assembly polls.

During the 2021 Bengal assembly polls, Mr Yadav had announced his support for the Trinamool Congress, which was reciprocated by Ms Banerjee when she campaigned for the former UP chief minister during the 2022 elections in that state.

The Samajwadi Party will organise its two-day national executive in Kolkata from March 18 to discuss the party's policies and strategies for assembly elections in the three Hindi heartland states later this year and Lok Sabha polls next year.

The Congress will move to court seeking the deployment of central forces to ensure that the upcoming panchayat polls in West Bengal are held peacefully and in a fair manner.