Left’s Pratikur Rahaman to contest from Diamond Harbour
The Left Front today announced five more candidates in as many seats for the Lok Sabha polls, a day after Naushad Siddiqui’s outfit Indian Secular Front (ISF) decided to go alone.
The Left Front today announced five more candidates in as many seats for the Lok Sabha polls, a day after Naushad Siddiqui’s outfit Indian Secular Front (ISF) decided to go alone.
Apart from the Trinamul Congress, the main opposition party in the state, BJP has also announced names of candidates in 20 seats in the first list.
Police arrested the Bhangar MLA on charge of violating Section 144 imposed at Sandeshkhali. He was taken to the KP headquarters at Lalbazar by a prison van.
day after chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who holds the home portfolio, asked Kolkata Police (KP) to bring Bhangar within the jurisdiction of South 24-Parganas, a team from Lalbazar visited several areas in the violencehit block on Thursday.
Two ISF personnel and a villager were killed following a clash that broke out between the police and ISF supporters at Kanthalia near Bhangar in South 24-Parganas last night. Another youth was also killed on Tuesday night at the same village.
school student, who is also the nephew of a Trinamul Congress leader, was killed in a crude bomb explosion at Deganga in North 24-Parganas on Tuesday night.
Justice Mantha passed this direction after hearing a petition filed by the AISF
The trouble started when an unknown person carrying a helmet in his left hand suddenly got into the dais and asked Naushad what the latter had done for developments of minorities as a MLA.
The Left Front has come under severe criticism for its alliance with the ISF. The move has rattled party leaders under the Left Front, while senior Congress leader and a member of the party's 'G23' group of dissenters, Anand Sharma, has also recently questioned the decision to ally with the ISF.
The Congress is contesting 92 seats in the West Bengal Assembly in alliance with the Left and ISF. So far, it has announced candidates for 13 seats. Due to the delay in the finalisation of all the candidates, the visit of Rahul Gandhi and other senior leaders for campaigning has not yet been finalised.
