Tag: West Bengal Assembly Elections

Last year on this day Bengal’s ‘Ma-Mati-Manush’ showed courage against high and mighty: CM

The state government is launching a statewide fortnightly propaganda to showcase the successes of the different development schemes of the government.

May 2, 2022

WB Assembly Elections: As battle for Nandigram still continues, Mamata Banerjee thanks people of Bengal for TMC’s’landslide victory’

Counting of votes polled in the West Bengal assembly elections began at 8 am on Sunday under tight security and strict adherence to safety protocols, amid a raging second wave of COVID-19.

May 2, 2021

BJP confident of forming govt in Bengal by winning 200+ seats

Apart from the Axis My India-India Today and the Republic-CNX exit polls, which gave the BJP an edge in the battleground state, all other surveys, including the CVoter Exit Poll for Times Now/ABP News, forecast a third victory for the Trinamool, putting it ahead in the 294-member Assembly.

April 30, 2021

High turnout in 1st 2 hours of Bengal last phase

The Election Commission has already announced that 5,433 booths of the total 11,860 booths are extremely sensitive and so have deployed 24 general observers, nine expenditure observers, and nine police observers for the eighth phase of the polls.

April 29, 2021

Polling underway for penultimate phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections

Polling underway for penultimate phase of West Bengal Assembly Elections

April 26, 2021

West Bengal Assembly Elections: 70.42% polling recorded till 3 p.m

According to the Election Commission, 70.42 percent of polling was recorded in the first six hours on Thursday. East Burdwan with more than 75 percent recorded the highest polling till 3 p.m.

April 22, 2021

Polling underway for sixth phase of West Bengal Bengal Assembly polls

In this phase election will be conducted in nine constituencies each in North Dinajpur and Nadia districts, 17 in North 24 Parganas and eight in East Burdwan where 10,409,948 electorate will decide the fate of 306 candidates among which 27 candidates are female.

April 22, 2021

Polling underway for 5th phase of WB Assembly elections

On Saturday altogether 45 constituencies across six districts including Jalpaiguri, Darjeeling, Kalimpong, Nadia, East Burdwan, and North 24 Parganas will go for the polls.

April 17, 2021

Mamata ‘clean bowled’, her entire team asked to leave field: Modi at Bardhaman rally

Prime Minister Narendra Modi came down hard on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of instigating people against central forces on election duty in the state.

April 12, 2021

Assembly elections: PM Modi, Shah to hold multiple rallies in poll-bound Bengal-check schedule

45 Assembly segments will go to polls in the fifth phase which is scheduled for April 17. The sixth round for 43 seats would be held on April 22. 35 constituencies will go to polls in the seventh phase elections on April 26.

April 12, 2021

Rahul Gandhi to campaign in WB from April 14

The former Congress president will start the campaign after four phases of polling has ended in the state where the party is contesting on 92 seats in alliance with the Left.

April 11, 2021

West Bengal polls: 4 dead as central forces open fire after coming under attack from locals in Cooch Behar

Election officials said a report on the incident has been sought from the district officials.

April 10, 2021

West Bengal Assembly elections: BJP shares audio chat of TMC poll strategist Prashant Kishor praising PM Modi

BJP`s IT cell chief Amit Malviya claimed that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee`s election strategist Prashant Kishor had accepted the BJP`s victory.

April 10, 2021

West Bengal: Voting underway in fourth phase of Assembly polls

Interestingly women voters will become the deciding factor in the West Bengal`s South 24 Parganas district in this phase. Cumulatively the number of female voters in the district`s 11 constituencies are more than their male counterparts.

April 10, 2021

EC issues another show cause notice to WB CM Mamata Banerjee

The new EC notice, issued on Thursday night, has asked the chief minister to submit her written explanation to the commission before 11 a.m. on April 10

April 9, 2021

WB assembly elections: Women voters outnumber men in 4th phase polls

A substantial increase in women voters might play an important role in the ongoing Assembly polls in the state.

April 7, 2021

Bengal ready to welcome BJP: Nadda

Nadda was drumming up support for Union minister Babul Supriyo, BJP’s Tollygunge candidate and actor who made her poll debut BJP’s Payal Sarkar, who is slogging for Behala (east).

April 6, 2021