West Begal Polls

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  Phase 5 Of West Bengal Polls A Test For Mamata Banerjee: 10 Facts

  Voting for the crucial fifth phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal is being held today in 53 constituencies across the state. Today's polling will decide the fate of a number of political heavyweights including Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her party candidates who were purportedly seen in the Narada sting operation footage.

• Mamata kicks off Trinamool campaign with massive padayatra

  Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, on Sunday, launched her party's campaign for the Assembly poll by marching in the city's southern outskirts as part of her three-day padayatra.Thousands of people lined up the streets to catch a glimpse of the leader who was accompanied by party supporters holding cut-outs of her and posters promising to bu...

• Mamata promises new land policy for West Bengal

  Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Saturday said her party will simultaneously make a new land policy for West Bengal, along with the central government, if it wins the April-May assembly elections."We will not follow the draconian land acquisition law of 1894. We will take up new land policy simultaneously with the centr...

• Left's worries in Bengal include disenchanted Muslims

  As the Left in West Bengal heads into what's being described as its toughest election in the state, it must contend with its growing gap from the Muslims, who once were on its side. The minority community makes up 25% of the state's population. In 2006, the report of the Sachar Committee said West Bengal was among the worst states for Muslims to li...