Logo

Kolkata

PM Modi pens emotional note for Bengal voters

In a reflective final outreach before campaigning ended on Monday for the second phase of West Bengal’s crucial Assembly elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned to the written word, releasing an open letter that fused political messaging with personal reflection, invoking both faith and civic duty to make his closing pitch to voters.

Parties court Bengal’s Matuas as citizenship anxieties cloud key vote

As West Bengal heads for the final phase of polls on Wednesday, the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) and challenger Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) are placing calculated bets on one single community, which both see as pivotal to the make-or-break game - the roughly three million-strong Matuas concentrated in villages along the border with Bangladesh.