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#WATCH | Delhi: TMC MP Derek O'Brien says, "Today, we went to the Chief Election Commissioner. He told us 'get lost' within 7 minutes of the meeting. The meeting started at 10:02 AM and ended at 10:07 AM... When we told him that you are transferring officials, and how you would... pic.twitter.com/PBtcsf8PMI Leaders of the All India Trinamool Congress wrote to the Chief Election Commissioner of India raising concerns about the neutrality of election officials and observers in West Bengal. They a ...Read More >
Earlier on Wednesday, a meeting between a TMC delegation and the EC ended in a heated exchange. TMC MP Derek O'Brien said chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar told them to "get lost" after seven minutes, while the EC accused O'Brien of shouting and trying to stop the CEC from speaking. The TMC handed letters from Mamata Banerjee and raised concerns about poll officials allegedly linked to the BJP. Tensions between the TMC and the EC have intensified over the Special Intensive Revision (SI ...Read More >
The CPI-led Left Front in West Bengal on Saturday released its manifesto for the forthcoming assembly elections, with a focus on industrial development and employment generation. In the manifesto, the Left Front promised to generate employment in the public sector by filling all vacant state government posts, and in the private sector by attracting big-ticket investments through changes to the state's industrial policy. The manifesto, released by veteran CPI(M) leader and Left Front chairman i ...Read More >
New Delhi: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has accused Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Derek O'Brien of shouting at Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar and not letting him speak, during their meeting at the poll panel headquarters here on Wednesday. The TMC, however, refuted the allegations and alleged that CEC Kumar misbehaved with the party delegation, which had come to meet him at the ECI headquarters. A four-member delegation of the TMC including O'Brien and Saket Gokhale ar ...Read More >
Kolkata, April 7 (IANS) Congress on Tuesday released its manifesto for the two-phase assembly elections in West Bengal later this month, giving priority to an alternative economic model to improve fiscal health, attract investment and generate employment over distributing doles under different schemes, which is the signature propaganda tool of the ruling Trinamool Congress. After releasing the manifesto in Kolkata, Congress's national president Mallikarjun Kharge explained why the party is givi ...Read More >
Cooch Behar (West Bengal) [India], April 8 (ANI): Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee on Wednesday trained guns at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, calling them "Bangla-Birodhi Zamindars" who ask for people's votes, but do not deliver to them in return. In an 'X' post, Banerjee shared a video related to his election campaign in Cooch Behar, emphasising that TMC's "Maa-Mati-Manush Sarkar" delivers to the people without asking anything in return from them. "Now ...Read More >
New Delhi: TMC MP Sagarika Ghose On Wednesday hit back at the Election Commission of India (ECI), calling its version of a meeting with Trinamool Congress leaders "false" and "a blatant lie", while alleging that the delegation was met with disrespect. In a post on X, Ghose claimed that the Chief Election Commissioner told them to "get lost", contradicting the poll body's assertion of a constructive interaction ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections. Referring to the ruling Trinamool Congre ...Read More >
New Delhi, Apr 8 (PTI) The meeting between a Trinamool Congress delegation and the full bench of the Election Commission on Wednesday culminated on an acrimonious note, with the TMC saying the panel's chief asked them to "get lost" at the end of the seven-minute meeting, while the EC accused them of "shouting". After the meeting, TMC's Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien told mediapersons that they handed over letters from West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee to Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A meeting between a delegation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Election Commission (EC) turned tense on Wednesday, with both sides trading sharply conflicting accounts of what transpired.According to sources in the poll body, TMC leader Derek O'Brien allegedly raised his voice during the interaction and told the Chief Election Commissioner not to speak."Trinamool Congress meeting lasted barely a few minutes. EC sources said Trinamool MP Derek O Brien shouted at the Election Co ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination from Bhabanipur, staging a show of strength with a road march from her Kalighat residence to the Alipore Survey Building in Kolkata. Flanked by supporters chanting slogans in her favour, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief walked nearly 800 metres, greeting party workers with folded hands as she sought to project confidence ahead of a high-stakes contest.Soon after filing her papers, Banerjee launched a sharp ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): A meeting between a delegation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday turned tense, with TMC MP Derek O'Brien alleging that the Chief Election Commissioner asked them to leave within five minutes. He also challenged the Commission to release video or audio of the meeting. Addressing a press conference, O'Brien said, "Today, we went to the Chief Election Commissioner. He told us 'get lost' within 7 minutes of the ...Read More >
Kolkata, Apr 8 (PTI) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination papers as the TMC candidate for the Bhabanipur assembly seat, and said everything in her life began from here. Amid a sea of supporters raising slogans of 'Mamata Banerjee zindabad' and 'TMC zindabad', Banerjee led a roadshow from her Kalighat residence to the Alipore Survey Building, where she filed the nomination papers. She walked nearly 800 metres with folded hands and her trademark smile, gre ...Read More >
Bhabanipur (West Bengal) [India], April 8 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday filed her nomination at the Survey Building from Bhabanipur assembly constituency for the 2026 State Assembly elections. Mamata Banerjee is contesting from the Bhabanipur seat, from where she will face a repeat clash with BJP leader and Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari. Adhikari had also challenged Mamata from Nandigram in the ...Read More >
New Delhi: Referring to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday affirmed that the 2026 State Assembly elections will be free from fear and violence. In an X post, the ECI called for no booth and source jamming on the days of polling in West Bengal. "ECI's Straight-talk to Trinamool Congress. This time, the Elections in West Bengal would surely be: Fear-free, Violence-free, Intimidation-free, Inducement-free and without any Raid, B ...Read More >
Kolkata: A sweeping purge of electoral roll under the SIR has triggered sharp political and social fault lines in North 24 Parganas, with over 12.3 lakh names struck off across three phases since the first draft was published in Dec -- the highest in Bengal so far.The impact has been most severe in the Matua-dominated Bongaon subdivision, where four Assembly segments -- Bagdah, Gaighata, Bongaon North and Bongaon South -- account for a significant chunk of deletions. Three of these seats are cur ...Read More >
As the spectrum of the deletion of close to 90 lakh voters from the electoral roll in West Bengal came to fore on Tuesday following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of targeting the Matuas and minorities, saying they were "picked and removed like lice". The BJP, on the other hand, claimed that the exercise carried out by the Election Commission had exposed the number of "Muslim infiltrators" in the state. Addressing an election rally ...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. Also See: Elections 2026 Live Updates Tight Conte ...Read More >
Paschim Medinipur (West Bengal) [India], April 8 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday actively campaigned and engaged with voters in West Bengal's Kharagpur Sadar Assembly constituency, with the assembly elections just two weeks away. Ghosh claimed that a "wave of change" is sweeping West Bengal, saying voters are supporting the BJP due to law and order concerns, migration of locals for work, and alleged anti-national activities by Bangladeshi infiltrators in M ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): Referring to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal, the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday affirmed that the 2026 State Assembly elections will be free from fear and violence. In an X post, the ECI called for no booth and source jamming on the days of polling in West Bengal. "ECI's Straight-talk to Trinamool Congress. This time, the Elections in West Bengal would surely be: Fear-free, Violence-free, Intimidation-free, Inducement-free ...Read More >
West Bengal Elections 2026: Tensions flared in Haroa during the West Bengal Assembly Election 2026 campaign as two factions of the Trinamool Congress clashed violently at a public rally on Tuesday evening. The incident occurred during an election meeting held in support of TMC candidate Mohammad Mufti Abdul Matin. What began as a verbal argument between party members quickly escalated into physical violence. Viral videos from the scene show people engaging in fistfights, throwing chairs, and ev ...Read More >
Hitting back at Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Asif for his alleged comments related to striking Kolkata, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Tuesday curtly remarked that only God would know how many parts Pakistan would be divided into "they cast an eye on Bengal". Asif reportedly said Saturday that Pakistan would respond to any "future misadventures" by India with a strike on Kolkata. While addressing a massive public rally in Barrackpore, Singh warned Pakistan of a repeat of 1971 if it continued i ...Read More >
* The 2016 Assam election ended Congress's 15-year rule, bringing BJP to power for the first time * BJP won 60 seats and formed government with allies AGP and BPF, totaling 86 seats * Congress secured only 26 seats despite alliance with UPPL, marking a significant defeat Did our AI summary help? Let us know. Switch To Beeps Mode Guwahati: The 2016 Assam assembly election was a turning point in the state's politics. Congress' 15-year rule came to an end, catapulting BJP to power for the fi ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Tensions within the opposition INDIA bloc deepened on Tuesday after one of its main constituents Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Congress exchanged barbs over West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's allegations of a "secret understanding" between the DMK, Congress and the election Commission. Congress leader Manickam Tagore on Tuesday termed Banerjee's remarks "highly irresponsible and condemnable," accusing her of making baseless claims at a time when opposition unity is crucial to ...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 >
In a strategic move for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge unveiled the party's election manifesto, spotlighting significant social welfare promises. The manifesto includes free education up to the postgraduate level, monthly financial support for women and farmers, fast-track courts for women's safety, and comprehensive state-sponsored health insurance. Addressing the press, Kharge declared, "We will empower women with Rs 2000 monthly an ...Read More >
Menaka Guruswamy is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court and one of the leading voices in India's LGBTQ rights movement. Senior advocate Menaka Guruswamy on Monday made history by taking oath as a Rajya Sabha MP, becoming India's first openly queer Member of Parliament. Guruswamy was nominated by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) along with West Bengal Minister Babul Supriyo, former Bengal DGP Rajeev Kumar, and actor Koel Mallick as candidates for the upper house in February. ...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 >
West Bengal Polls: "Manifesto unveiled keeping in mind opinions of people", says Congress leader Ghulam Ahmad Mir Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 8 (ANI): Congress leader Ghulam Ahmed Mir on Tuesday said that the manifesto unveiled for the upcoming West Bengal assembly polls was prepared by a committee formed six months ago, 'keeping in mind the opinions of the people'. Speaking to ANI, he said, 'This manifesto is not a traditional manifesto. We formed a committee 6 months ago and did not ...Read More >
Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee has ignited a political row by questioning the veracity of BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh's injury claims, sparking debate over political honesty and accountability in West Bengal. Photograph: ANI PhotoKey PointsAbhishek Banerjee questions the legitimacy of BJP MLA Shankar Ghosh's injury claims, citing inconsistencies in social media photos.Banerjee accuses Ghosh of being absent during critical times for his constituency, leading to public anger.The TMC leader ...Read More >
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], April 8 (ANI): Congress leader Ghulam Ahmed Mir on Tuesday said that the manifesto unveiled for the upcoming West Bengal assembly polls was prepared by a committee formed six months ago, "keeping in mind the opinions of the people". Speaking to ANI, he said, "This manifesto is not a traditional manifesto. We formed a committee 6 months ago and did not copy from any book. We have tried to prepare this manifesto keeping in mind the opinion of the people about what t ...Read More >
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