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KOLKATA: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday turned BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing from Bhabanipur into a high-voltage political spectacle, claiming he had a "shortcut" to bring about "paribartan" (change) in West Bengal: defeating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her own constituency. Shah said while the BJP would otherwise have to win 170 seats to form the government with a comfortable majority, a victory for Adhikari in Bhabanipur alone would automatically bring chang ...Read More >
Kolkata: Amit Shah on Thursday called on the people of West Bengal to vote without fear in the upcoming Assembly elections and remove the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) from power. He made these remarks while addressing a gathering during the nomination filing of senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari. Shah energized the crowd by asserting that no one should feel intimidated while voting. He said that voters must come forward fearlessly to defeat the TMC and bring change to the state. He also appe ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday filed his nomination for West Bengal's Bhabanipur assembly constituency in the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. Accompanied by Shah and other senior BJP leaders, Adhikari reached the Survey Building office after a roadshow through Bhabanipur and adjoining areas, amid chants of 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'BJP zindabad'. Adhikari is also contesting from Nandigram, from where he is a two-time MLA. The BJP sought to project the contes ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday turned BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing from Bhabanipur into a high-voltage political spectacle, claiming he had a "shortcut" to bring about "paribartan" (change) in West Bengal: defeating Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her own constituency. Shah said while the BJP would otherwise have to win 170 seats to form the government, a victory for Adhikari in Bhabanipur alone would automatically bring change to the state's ...Read More >
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah participated in a mega colourful roadshow, starting from South Kolkata's Hazra more and ending near Survey Building near Gopalnagar, with mega mega fanfare, music, colour and orange balloons and saffron flags flowing, "parivartan" song and music, and people dancing to the beats of drums everywhere, to submit nominations for Bhabanipur candidate Suvendu Adhiakri and three others candidates in Kolkata. Amid huge participation of the BJP workers in the rally, ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday held a massive roadshow in Bhabanipur Assembly constituency, urging voters to support BJP's ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections. The rally, attended by party workers and supporters in large numbers, marked a high-profile show of support for the BJP in the key constituency. Earlier, speaking at the nomination filing event of senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, Shah highlighted issues he said were aff ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday alleged that infiltration has increased to such an extent that Bengal's existence is at stake. Addressing an election rally here, he also accused the Mamata Banerjee regime of reducing West Bengal to a state of lawlessness when incidents of firing and bombing take place almost every day. "A storm is raging everywhere in Bengal; a storm for Poriborton (change) and say goodbye to Mamata Banerjee," Shah said. "There is corruption eve ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 2 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday urged the people of West Bengal to vote fearlessly and remove the Trinamool Congress (TMC) from power ahead of state Assembly elections. Speaking at the nomination filing event of senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, Shah electrified the crowd with his declaration, "This time no one should fear; no goon can stop the voters of Bengal. Everyone must vote without fear to uproot and throw TMC into the Bay of Beng ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 2 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, will be filing his nomination from the Bhabanipur constituency in South Kolkata as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate on Thursday in the presence of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah. HM Shah had arrived in Kolkata on Wednesday night. He will be participating in a mega roadshow within the Bhabanipur constituency along with Adhikari before the latter files his nomination. "HM Shah and ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) Union Home Minister Amit Shah will participate in BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing from the Bhabanipur assembly constituency in the city and accompany him during a roadshow in the area on Thursday, party leaders said. Shah will join Adhikari, the leader of the opposition in the West Bengal assembly, in a show of strength in Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's political bastion. According to BJP leaders, Shah and Adhikari will begin a roadshow from Hazra Crossin ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Thursday attend the nomination filing of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and take part in a major roadshow at Bhabanipur. His presence at the programme and a rally near the residence of Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee sets the stage for the most prestigious electoral showdown between the Chief Minister and the Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly. Adhikari is scheduled to submit his nomination papers at the Survey Building before leading a proces ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 1 (PTI) BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday faced protests from TMC supporters while campaigning in his Nandigram constituency in West Bengal's Purba Medinipur district and later in Bhabanipur in south Kolkata. Adhikari, who is also the leader of the opposition in the state Assembly, is contesting both Nandigram and Bhabanipur, the home turf of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. At both locations, TMC supporters shouted slogans such as 'Joy Bangla' and 'Sisirbabur Chheleta' (fai ...Read More >
New Delhi: The high-voltage battleground of Bhabanipur Assembly constituency in April election comes as a reminder of the 2016 clash in the same seat that also was much hyped as allegations flew, churning the political waters of West Bengal. Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had then faced challenges from Congress candidate Deepa Dasmunshi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) nominee Chandra Kumar Bose. The latter, grandnephew of Subhas Chandra Bose, joined the BJP in 2 ...Read More >
West Bengal Elections 2026: Key Leaders Who Could Shape Bengal Assembly Polls Outcome Completely West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Key Candidates: 2026 West Bengal Assembly polls will feature key battles featuring Mamata Banerjee, Suvendu Adhikari and others. As West Bengal heads into a high-voltage Assembly election, the contest is once again being shaped not just by party symbols but by a handful of powerful political faces whose battles could define the state's future. The 2026 election w ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: "Consider me your candidate in all 294 constituencies," Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said in a poll rally, urging voters to look beyond individual nominees and rally behind her leadership.As Mamata Banerjee took the stage in Paschim Medinipur's Chandrakona on, her message cut through the campaign noise with a clear pitch: leadership over labels. In poll-bound West Bengal, where assembly elections are scheduled in two phases on April 23 and April 29, the Trinamool Congress supremo positi ...Read More >
The Bharatiya Janta Party on Monday (March 30) put up a united front as Suvendu Adhikari filed his nomination for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections. Former BJP State president Dilip Ghosh accompanied the Leader of Opposition as he filed his nomination for his candidature in Nandigram. For these high-stakes polls, the BJP has fielded him from two seats, one in Nandigram, from where he defeated Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in 2021. He is also contesting from Bhawanipur, the home const ...Read More >
West Bengal Assembly Election 2026: West Bengal votes in two phases on April 23 and 29, 2026. All 294 seats mapped, candidates declared. Results on May 4. Full breakdown here. West Bengal is gearing up for one of the most fiercely contested state elections in recent years. The Election Commission of India announced the schedule on March 15, 2026, confirming that voting across all 294 assembly constituencies will be conducted in two phases, on April 23 and April 29, 2026. Results will be declare ...Read More >
New Delhi/Kolkata, Mar 31 (PTI) The BJP on Tuesday released its fourth list of 13 candidates for the West Bengal assembly polls, fielding recent Congress entrant Santosh Pathak from Chowringhee and Union minister Shantanu Thakur's wife Soma from the Matua-dominated Bagda seat as it sought to fine-tune its social arithmetic and political messaging. With only six seats left undeclared, the party named candidates for 13 more constituencies, taking the total number of nominees declared so far to 28 ...Read More >
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will contest from Baharampur. The Congress on Sunday released its first list of 284 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls, fielding former state unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Baharampur and ex-TMC MP Mausam Noor from Malatipur. The Congress, which is going solo in the polls for the 294 assembly seats in the state, announced the names of 284 candidates in one go. While Chowdhury has been fielded from Baharampur and Noor, who joined the Congress ...Read More >
Kolkata: Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday claimed that CM Mamata Banerjee's poll campaign agenda was weak, which was possibly the reason why she has been relying on trivial issues to hit out at BJP. He was referring to her statements that BJP will prevent people from eating non-veg food if voted to power. Pradhan said he had a sumptuous meal of fish despite being a BJP leader himself. "This time, Mamata Banerjee has no issues. There is no employment for the youth, women have no safet ...Read More >
Murshidabad (West Bengal) [India], March 30 (ANI): Congress leader and Berhampore Assembly constituency candidate Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday expressed confidence of regaining public support in the upcoming elections, stating that people in the region have always trusted him. Speaking to ANI, Chowdhury said that his defeat in the last Lok Sabha elections was due to communal polarisation, and claimed that people later felt it was a mistake. Also Read | Liquor Policy Case: ED Moves Delhi Hi ...Read More >
Murshidabad (West Bengal) [India], March 30 (ANI): Congress leader and Berhampore Assembly constituency candidate Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday expressed confidence of regaining public support in the upcoming elections, stating that people in the region have always trusted him. Speaking to ANI, Chowdhury said that his defeat in the last Lok Sabha elections was due to communal polarisation, and claimed that people later felt it was a mistake. "It has never happened that the people here did n ...Read More >
Kolkata, March 30 (UNI) The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday removed four top officials including West Bengal Deputy Chief Electoral Officer Subrata Pal from the CEO Monoj Agarwal's office. While Pal was shifted to the health department, Rahul Nath was posted as the Joint Chief Electoral Officer in the CEO's office, according to a notification issued by the state secretariat Nabanna. Nath was till date serving as Additional Secretary in the Health and Family Welfare department. The ...Read More >
Kolkata: Alleging violation of Model Code of Conduct (MCC), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday had visited the office of Election Commission of India (ECI) at the national capital and sought ban on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's campaign. Notably, a delegation comprising Union Ministers Piyush Goyal, Kiren Rijiju, and Sukanta Majumdar, BJP national general secretary and MP Arun Singh among others had visited the ECI office. In its complaint, the saffron camp said that the Trinamool Congr ...Read More >
Officers posted in key constituencies such as Bhabanipur in Kolkata and Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district were included in the reshuffle that was effected on Sunday. The transfers also involved inspectors and sub-inspectors assigned as ICs and OCs in districts, including Cooch Behar, Malda, Murshidabad, Birbhum, Paschim Medinipur, Howrah, and North and South 24 Parganas. According to the order, Soumitra Basu, previously with the Special Task Force (STF), will take charge as IC of the Bhaba ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress MP and lawyer Kalyan Banerjee on Monday moved the Calcutta High Court against the Election Commission of India (ECI) after it removed officers-in-charge (OCs) of 170 police stations, including Bhabanipur where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is a candidate, and block development officers (BDOs) and assistant returning officers (AROs) of 83 blocks ahead of the assembly polls in the state. The petition has been filed in the court of Chief Justice Sujoy Paul ...Read More >
Kolkata: BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday filed his nomination for Nandigram constituency and expressed confidence that the party would register a decisive victory in the West Bengal Assembly polls. Adhikari submitted his papers before the sub-divisional officer (SDO) at Haldia in Purba Medinipur district in the presence of senior BJP leaders, including Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan and former state BJP president Dilip Ghosh. Two other BJP candidates from the district also filed their ...Read More >
Kolkata, March 30 (SocialNews.XYZ) On the occasion of Rajasthan Diwas, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stated that the "Rajasthani" and "Marwari" communities in the state will always remain an essential part of West Bengal, recognising their contributions to the overall development of the region. In a social media statement issued on Monday, the Chief Minister claimed that the invaluable contributions of the 'Rajasthani' and 'Marwari' fraternities in West Bengal across various sectors have playe ...Read More >
New Delhi, Mar 2 (PTI) Amazon India on Monday announced 'Zero Referral fee' on more than 12.5 crore products, a move, the ecommerce giant said, aims to accelerate growth for lakhs of sellers across the country. Building on last year's fee revision, the company has expanded zero referral fees coverage more than 10-times from 1.2 crore products in 2025 to over 12.5 crore products priced under Rs 1,000 across 1,800-plus categories, the company said in a release. In addition, Amazon has reduced Ea ...Read More >
KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday launched a blistering attack on the EC over deletions in the post-SIR rolls, alleging a "nexus" between the poll panel and the BJP to disenfranchise genuine voters, and help the saffron party in the upcoming assembly elections. Banerjee, in her first reaction after the publication of West Bengal's post-Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls on February 28, claimed that the deletions had been carried out "deliberately by ...Read More >
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