Calling the BJP the most corrupt, oppressive and autocratic party, Trinamul Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee asked the people of Jhargram to not vote for the saffron party that she said is holding up Bengal’s dues from the Centre deliberately.
Amidst recent political debates in the state, an MLA from the BJP in Bankura has 'leaked' that 59,000 government employees will lose their jobs on 30 April, for sure, which has further kicked off fresh controversy, since last evening.
Another Sharmila Sarkar has joined the fray against Dr Sharmila Sarkar, the Trinamul Congress candidate from Bardhaman Purba seat.
Barring stray incidents, the second phase of polling to three Lok Sabha constituencies went off peacefully, today.
Raja Das, a worker with a steel plant here is a diehard CITU cadre but is impressed by Dilip Ghosh, BJP candidate for Bardhaman Durgapur as Ghosh takes on the ruling Trinamul Congress in state.
Reacting to the Bharatiya Janata Party's Sankalp Patra (manifesto) for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly polls, MP Congress president and former Chief Minister, Kamal Nath, said on Sunday that the BJP copied the Congress' manifesto.
Talking to media persons here on Saturday, he said that the last nine years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have been wonderful and unmatched.
To take on the opposition's poll strategy of demanding OBC-based caste census and reservation for the community, the BJP's strategy is to make Telangana its OBC politics laboratory which if successful will be implemented in other states.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday hit out at Congress, alleging that the grand old party did not allow the architect of the Constitution, BR Ambedkar to win elections.
Congress MP from Tamil Nadu's Karur Jothimani on Saturday alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) state chief K Annamalai collected about Rs 1.75 crores on the pretext of 'padayatra'.
