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KOLKATA: Union home minister Amit Shah on Thursday set a goal of 170 seats for the Bengal BJP in the upcoming assembly elections and announced that he would camp in the state for 15 days during the polls.Shah, who was present at a nomination rally for four BJP candidates in Kolkata, said Suvendu Adhikari would win from Bhowanipore -- chief minister Mamata Banerjee's home turf -- and the victory would act as a "shortcut" to trigger a regime change in the state."We will win seats one after another ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 2 (PTI) With chants of 'Jai Shri Ram' and 'BJP zindabad' reverberating through the lanes of Bhabanipur, the BJP on Thursday transformed Suvendu Adhikari's nomination filing into a saffron show of strength in the very constituency that has long been Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's political fortress. Adhikari was accompanied by Union Home Minister Amit Shah and state party president Samik Bhattacharya and other leaders. Standing atop an open-hood, flower-decked truck fitted with g ...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 >
West Bengal's draft electoral rolls reveal 127 Absent, Shifted, Dead (ASD) voters at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's booth. The Special Intensive Revision process identified over 24 lakh dead voters for deletion. The draft rolls are now available for public scrutiny, with claims and objections to be filed until January 17, 2026. With the draft electoral rolls in Bengal published on Tuesday, following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls that began on December 4, West Bengal ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (PTI) The Election Commission on Tuesday published West Bengal's draft electoral rolls following SIR, deleting the names of more than 58 lakh voters on various grounds, including death and migration, and redrawing voter profiles across districts and border belts ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. The scale, spread and political geography of the deletions have affected several high-profile assembly seats, and have sharpened political fault lines and set the stage for a contentious ...Read More >
Kolkata | The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday published West Bengal's draft electoral rolls following SIR, deleting the names of more than 58 lakh voters on various grounds, including death, migration and non-submission of enumeration forms, officials said. The deletions have affected several high-profile assembly seats, and have sharpened political fault lines and set the stage for a contentious verification phase ahead of state elections due early next year. According to official data, 5 ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 15 (PTI) The Election Commission is set to publish the draft electoral rolls for West Bengal on Tuesday following the completion of the statewide Special Intensive Revision (SIR) ahead of the 2026 assembly polls. The election authorities are racing to complete last-minute preparations, with officials saying on Monday that the exercise is on track to meet the deadline. Commission sources said the draft list has already been uploaded on the internal Booth Level Officer (BLO) app, al ...Read More >
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