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West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates: The 2026 West Bengal Assembly election is set to be a key political contest, with voting scheduled in two phases on 23 and 29 April and counting on 4 May. All 294 seats are at stake, and parties will need 148 seats to form the government. The battle is mainly between the ruling All India Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state under Suvendu Adhikari. Also See: Elections 2026 Live Updates Tight Conte ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 8 (PTI) West Bengal's 2026 assembly elections will be fought on an electoral map radically redrawn by the SIR, which has wiped out over 90.83 lakh names from the rolls, upending the arithmetic in scores of constituencies and throwing both the TMC's citadels and the BJP's expansion zones into fresh uncertainty. The state's electorate has shrunk from 7.66 crore to 6.77 crore, forcing the TMC and the BJP to fight the two-phase elections later this month on terrain very different from ...Read More >
West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026 Live Updates: The 2026 West Bengal Assembly election is set to be a key political contest, with voting scheduled in two phases on 23 and 29 April and counting on 4 May. All 294 seats are at stake, and parties will need 148 seats to form the government. The battle is mainly between the ruling All India Trinamool Congress led by Mamata Banerjee and the Bharatiya Janata Party in the state under Suvendu Adhikari. Tight Contest and Key Issues: The campaign is mark ...Read More >
RAIPUR: Chhattisgarh chief minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Monday claimed that there is a strong undercurrent against the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the ensuing Assembly polls in West Bengal. West Bengal is going to Assembly polls in two phases on April 23 and April 29. Mr. Sai who returned here after campaigning for BJP in Jhargram district in West Bengal on Monday told the reporters that the TMC and its supremo Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal, are finding it difficult to co ...Read More >
West Bengal Elections Opinion Poll LIVE: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is aiming to end the Trinamool Congress (TMC) rule in West Bengal, which has been in power since 2011. The upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections is set to witness a high-stakes contest between the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), led by Mamata Banerjee, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is aiming to end the TMC's rule in the state. The TMC has been in power since 2011, while the BJP has steadily expanded its ...Read More >
Jhargram (West Bengal) [India], April 6 (ANI): Ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said that the people of Bengal are rejecting misgovernance and rallying for a development-driven alternative. In the X post, Pradhan said, "Engaged with BJP Jhargram district's Assembly in-charges and Pravasi karyakatas sharpening our booth-level strategies and outreach. The growing strength and confidence of our cadre signal one thing clearly--people of Bengal are rej ...Read More >
Jhargram (West Bengal) [India], April 6 (ANI): Ahead of West Bengal assembly polls, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday said that the people of Bengal are rejecting misgovernance and rallying for a development-driven alternative. In the X post, Pradhan said, "Engaged with BJP Jhargram district's Assembly in-charges and Pravasi karyakatas sharpening our booth-level strategies and outreach. The growing strength and confidence of our cadre signal one thing clearly--people of Bengal are rej ...Read More >
Jhargram (West Bengal) [India], April 5 (ANI): Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday accused Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin of politicising the language debate, clarifying that the National Education Policy (NEP) does not impose Hindi, emphasising that students will continue to learn their mother tongue while also having the option to choose an additional Indian language. "MK Stalin is doing politics. The National Education Policy nowhere says that only Hindi will be taught ...Read More >
West Bengal Assembly Election 2026: West Bengal is moving towards the state assembly polls that are about to be held in coming days. As of now, the political scenario has become highly aggressive. The two phases of elections will take place on April 23 and April 29 for all 294 seats in West Bengal. As the BJP and TMC continue to compete intensely for power, certain constituencies in West Bengal have become crucial battlefields for the poll results. Bhabanipur: The Chief Minister's Political Fo ...Read More >
The 294-member Vidhan Sabha is expected to witness a close contest between the ruling All India Trinamool Congress, led by Mamata Banerjee since 2011, and the BJP. The Bharatiya Janata Party released its fourth list of candidates for the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections on Tuesday, A total of 13 candidates were named in the latest list. In a key change, the party has swapped its candidate in the Maynaguri seat, replacing Kaushik Roy with Dalim Roy. WB Assembly Elections 2026: BJP's full fou ...Read More >
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday released its fourth list of 13 candidates for the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026, including Soma Thakur, the wife of Union Minister of State Shantanu Thakur, from the Bagda seat in the North 24 Parganas district. With this, the saffron party has named 287 candidates for the West Bengal polls, for which the polling will be held in two phases. The party has also replaced its candidate in the Maynaguri constituency, fielding Dalim Roy in place of Ka ...Read More >
The party estimates that the initiative will create over one crore direct touchpoints with citizens. New Delhi: The BJP is set to launch the 'Parivartan Yatra', a large-scale political outreach initiative, in West Bengal on Sunday, marking one of the party's most extensive mobilisation efforts ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections. The campaign aims to challenge what the party describes as more than a decade of "corrupt, undemocratic, and anti-people governance" under the Trinamool Congres ...Read More >
West Bengal SIR: South 24 Parganas district tops among the 24 districts in West Bengal in terms of exclusion of names of voters in the draft voters' list in the state published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier on Tuesday. A total of more than eight lakh voters from the previous list as of October 2025 have been excluded from the draft voters' list for South 24 Parganas. On the other hand, the minimum number of voters' names has been excluded from the hill district of Kalimpong, ...Read More >
Kolkata, Dec 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) South 24 Parganas district tops among the 24 districts in West Bengal in terms of exclusion of names of voters in the draft voters' list in the state published by the Election Commission of India (ECI) earlier on Tuesday. A total of more than eight lakh voters from the previous list as of October 2025 have been excluded from the draft voters' list for South 24 Parganas. On the other hand, the minimum number of voters' names has been excluded from the hill distr ...Read More >
After the announcement of SIR in Bengal on Monday by ECI, an all-party meeting has been called by the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer's (WB- CEO) office on Tuesday at 4PM, where all national and state-level political parties will be participating. Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress leadership said that they will abide by the Constitution and there is no place for violence. However, they will not allow a single legal voter's name to be deleted from the electoral list and take the movement to Delh ...Read More >
A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is set to intensify into a cyclonic storm. This weather system will bring heavy rain to several districts across West Bengal. The India Meteorological Department has issued advisories for fishermen. Light to moderate rain is expected to begin in south Bengal districts from October 27. A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal, which is in the process of intensifying into a cyclonic storm, will bring heavy rain in some districts of West Bengal from October ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, Oct 27: The Congress on Monday accused the Election Commission of colluding with the Modi government to carry out a "game of vote chori (voter theft)" across 12 states under the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The party alleged that after Bihar's revision drive, which it claimed led to the deletion of 69 lakh names, the same "exercise in voter manipulation" was now being expanded nationwide. Soon after the Election Commission on Monday announced holding Special In ...Read More >
Kolkata (PTI): The West Bengal government on Monday announced the transfer of over 500 bureaucrats amid the rollout of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the state. In one of the largest reshuffles on a single day, 67 IAS and 460 West Bengal Civil Services (Executive) officers were transferred, according to a slew of notifications issued by the Personnel and Administrative Reforms (P&AR) Department. The transfer notifications were dated October 24, even as they were upl ...Read More >
Kolkata: Kolkata and several south Bengal districts could be lashed by thunderstorms and gusty winds on Oct 28 and 29 under the impact of a cyclonic storm, which is set to form over the southwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal on the morning of Oct 27. The system, which is now brewing over the southeast Bay of Bengal, turned into a low-pressure area on Friday from an upper air circulation. It is slowly moving west-northwestwards and seemed headed towards the Andhra-Tamil Nadu coast, sa ...Read More >
A key focus of the current operation is the residence of an individual named Manish Bagaria in the Murgashol area of Asansol. Bagaria has been allegedly involved in the sand business for an extended period. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) launched a fresh series of raids on Thursday morning as part of its ongoing investigation into money laundering in the illegal sand mining racket in West Bengal. Multiple teams from the central agency are currently conducting searches at seven locations acro ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 16 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday conducted search operations at eight places across West Bengal in relation to a sand-smuggling racket running in the state. Sleuths of the central investigation agency have raided Jhargram, Asansol, Lalgarh and Gopiballavpur areas. It is reported that sand was being extracted at the time when the ED sleuths arrived. It may be noted that the ED has conducted searches in the sand smuggling case earlier as well. A few d ...Read More >
West Bengal's CEO office is accelerating booth mapping for Special Intensive Revision, with data for Jhargram, West Midnapore, and Alipurduar now uploaded. Voters can check their details online. The process, based on the 2002 SIR benchmark, aims for completion before Diwali holidays, with District Magistrates urged to expedite efforts. As part of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) preparedness in West Bengal, West Bengal-CEO's office is expediting the booth mapping process across all district ...Read More >
As the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office fast-tracks the booth mapping process under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), opposition parties, including the Trinamul Congress, CPI-M-led Left Front, and Congress, have raised questions over the "hasty implementation" of the exercise ahead of next year's Assembly polls. As the West Bengal Chief Electoral Officer's (CEO) office fast-tracks the booth mapping process under the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR), opposit ...Read More >
BENGALURU: A day after Biocon chief Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw highlighted Bengaluru's "creaking" infrastructure, Karnataka's deputy CM D K Shivakumar Wednesday accused her of "betrayal" and of tarnishing the very state and country that helped her succeed as an entrepreneur.However, people sprang to her defence, accusing the government of displaying hostility towards those who speak up, and of refusing to accept constructive criticism.On her part, Shaw on Wednesday blamed previous governments' inaction ...Read More >
Kolkata: The Election Commission has found 3.4 crore names of voters that match the 2002 SIR list. This indicates that 44.7% of Bengal's 7.6 crore voters, according to the 2025 electoral rolls, match the 2002 data. The EC has received from seven electoral districts: Jhargram (51.3%), Alipurduar (53.7%), Malda (54.4%), Kolkata North (55.3%), Purulia (61.2%), West Midnapore (62.9%), and Kalimpong (65.2%). However, EC officials describe this as tentative data, stating that further filtration is nee ...Read More >
An Election Commission of India team, led by Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti, will visit West Bengal on October 8-9 to assess the preparedness for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise. The team will tour four districts, and Bharti will conduct a video-conference meeting on October 8 to review various pre-revision activities, including e-roll mapping and BLO arrangements. A team of the Election Commission of India, led by Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti, will vis ...Read More >
Kolkata: A high-level review meeting on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) preparedness was held in West Bengal, where a team from the Election Commission of India (ECI) led by Deputy Election Commissioner Gyanesh Bharti assessed the state's readiness. The team held a series of meetings in Kolkata, Rajarhat-Gopalpur, and Barasat with District Electoral Officers, Booth Level Officers (BLOs), and other election officials. The first review meeting was held on Wednesday at the office of West Bengal C ...Read More >
Kolkata Weather Alert: The festive spirit in Kolkata may face a wet challenge today, Thursday, 2 October 2025, as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heavy to very heavy rainfall in the city and surrounding districts. The rain is likely to disrupt Dashami celebrations and idol immersion processions along the Hooghly river. According to the IMD, rainfall in south Bengal could range from 64.5 mm (heavy) to over 115 mm (very heavy) today. This is expected to aggravate waterloggi ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 2 (PTI) A deep depression over the Bay of Bengal is very likely to bring heavy to very heavy rainfall in several districts of West Bengal till October 6 morning, as various parts of the state witnessed showers on Thursday, dampening Durga Puja festival spirits on its culminating day on Bijoya Dashami. The IMD said that the system is very likely to move towards the shore and cross Odisha and adjoining Andhra Pradesh coasts between Gopalpur and Paradip by Thursday night. An overcast ...Read More >
Kolkata, Oct 1 (PTI) Coastal and South Bengal districts are likely to receive heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours under the influence of a deep depression in the Bay of Bengal, a senior IMD official said here on Wednesday. From noon of October 2, there would be rain in some parts of Kolkata and heavy to very heavy rainfall in coastal districts - South 24 Parganas and Purba Medinipur - which will continue till the next two days, the official said. "While there is possibility of moderate rains s ...Read More >
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