Left Rule West Bengal

The Left rule was better than the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in West Bengal, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday, targeting the Trinamool over alleged illegal migration and cow smuggling.

West Bengal has been a bone of contention within the Opposition ranks with the Left parties and Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress not seeing eye to eye.

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday left for her home state after sounding the poll bugle in election-bound Meghalaya.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury Friday ruled out the possibility of allying with Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal but the Left party will not hesitate to join hands with opposition parties, including TMC nationally to defeat BJP.

The Left Front -- all but wiped out in Bengal's political landscape in the current elections -- had sympathy on Monday from a most unexpected quarter.

A string of summons issued by various Central probe agencies to some of its top leaders amid the heated Assembly poll campaign has left the Trinamool Congress seething. West Bengal's ruling party has said these were deliberate attempts at the BJP's behest to undermine its prospects in the upcoming state election. It has also linked the recent injur...

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh Thursday said TMC's appeal to Congress and the Left Front to rally behind Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her fight against the saffron party reflected desperation of the ruling party apprehending imminent defeat.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked leaders of the party's West Bengal unit to conduct joint movement with the Left Front against the ruling TMC and BJP, senior Congress leader Abdul Mannan said on Friday.

Veteran CPI (M) leader Nirupam Sen, credited as the architect of West Bengal's industrial drive during the Left Front rule, died at a city hospital on Monday morning after a prolonged illness, family sources said.

There will be no re-election for over 20,000 rural seats in Bengal that were won uncontested by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in May, the Supreme Court said today, in a huge reprieve for the state's ruling party. The court, however, left room for petitions from candidates who have alleged that they were stopped from filing the...

West Bengal is a step closer to becoming "Bangla", with all parties in the state approving the name-change in the assembly today. The new name needs the centre's clearance. It will be "Bangla" in all languages, according to a leader of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress. On this at least, the ruling party concurs with its rival Left, which had s...

Campaigning for the May 14 three-tier panchayat polls in West Bengal, marred by clashes between supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition BJP, Congress and Left and copious litigation, came to an end today.

Incidents of tit-for-tat vandalism of statues in Tripura, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal spurred Prime Minister Narendra Modi today to express strong condemnation and warn of "stern action". The home ministry has ordered all states to check such incidents and has cautioned that senior government and police officers will be held responsible for vandaliz...

Himanta Biswa Sarma, former Congressman and the ruling BJP's main strategist in the northeast, has suggested that Manik Sarkar, who will soon be resigning from Tripura chief minister's post, can seek shelter either in West Bengal, neighbouring Bangladesh or the southern state of Kerala. The BJP stormed Tripura today and dethroned Manik Sarkar-led L...

As the CPM endorsed a proposal ruling out any alliance or electoral understanding with the Congress, it rejected through a vote on Sunday the approach suggested by the party general secretary, for the first time in over four decades

The Left rule was better than the Mamata Banerjee-led regime in West Bengal, said Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday, targeting the Trinamool over alleged illegal migration and cow smuggling.

West Bengal has been a bone of contention within the Opposition ranks with the Left parties and Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress not seeing eye to eye.

West Bengal Chief Minister and TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday left for her home state after sounding the poll bugle in election-bound Meghalaya.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury Friday ruled out the possibility of allying with Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal but the Left party will not hesitate to join hands with opposition parties, including TMC nationally to defeat BJP.

The Left Front -- all but wiped out in Bengal's political landscape in the current elections -- had sympathy on Monday from a most unexpected quarter.

A string of summons issued by various Central probe agencies to some of its top leaders amid the heated Assembly poll campaign has left the Trinamool Congress seething. West Bengal's ruling party has said these were deliberate attempts at the BJP's behest to undermine its prospects in the upcoming state election. It has also linked the recent injur...

West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh Thursday said TMC's appeal to Congress and the Left Front to rally behind Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her fight against the saffron party reflected desperation of the ruling party apprehending imminent defeat.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has asked leaders of the party's West Bengal unit to conduct joint movement with the Left Front against the ruling TMC and BJP, senior Congress leader Abdul Mannan said on Friday.

Veteran CPI (M) leader Nirupam Sen, credited as the architect of West Bengal's industrial drive during the Left Front rule, died at a city hospital on Monday morning after a prolonged illness, family sources said.

There will be no re-election for over 20,000 rural seats in Bengal that were won uncontested by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in May, the Supreme Court said today, in a huge reprieve for the state's ruling party. The court, however, left room for petitions from candidates who have alleged that they were stopped from filing the...

West Bengal is a step closer to becoming "Bangla", with all parties in the state approving the name-change in the assembly today. The new name needs the centre's clearance. It will be "Bangla" in all languages, according to a leader of the state's ruling Trinamool Congress. On this at least, the ruling party concurs with its rival Left, which had s...

Campaigning for the May 14 three-tier panchayat polls in West Bengal, marred by clashes between supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress and the opposition BJP, Congress and Left and copious litigation, came to an end today.

Incidents of tit-for-tat vandalism of statues in Tripura, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal spurred Prime Minister Narendra Modi today to express strong condemnation and warn of "stern action". The home ministry has ordered all states to check such incidents and has cautioned that senior government and police officers will be held responsible for vandaliz...

Himanta Biswa Sarma, former Congressman and the ruling BJP's main strategist in the northeast, has suggested that Manik Sarkar, who will soon be resigning from Tripura chief minister's post, can seek shelter either in West Bengal, neighbouring Bangladesh or the southern state of Kerala. The BJP stormed Tripura today and dethroned Manik Sarkar-led L...

As the CPM endorsed a proposal ruling out any alliance or electoral understanding with the Congress, it rejected through a vote on Sunday the approach suggested by the party general secretary, for the first time in over four decades