With TMC divided into factions, numbers suggest that the three BJP candidates are almost certain to win the by-elections.
The Election Commission of India’s recent announcement of by-elections to three Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal, which fell vacant following the resignations of Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik — the three Trinamool Congress MPs who stepped down after the party’s debacle in the recent West Bengal Assembly elections — has brought the focus back on the former MPs and the BJP’s plans for them.
In West Bengal, the BJP is set to secure victory in all three Rajya Sabha seats as Trinamool Congress may not be in the race due to internal rebellion
Modi said that institutions established during Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s period laid the foundation for the country’s economic and industrial growth.
The SIT investigating the death of a 12-year-old girl in Baruipur has arrested a second accused after overnight raids and detained three others as police await the autopsy report.
The BJP’s slogan of Beti Bachao Beti Padhao is the biggest farce as the saffron party cannot protect women and the alleged rapists are released from the court, said the Trinamul Congress today.
In Nandigram, the tableau carrying “Unnayoner Panchali” (van announcing the developmental work done by the state for the people) was attacked at Nadigram’s Block 1 today.
Crude bomb violence in West Bengal has once again played havoc with the children of the state.
Ahead of the visit of Union home minister Amit Shah later this month, the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday held a “reunion” of its old and sidelined leaders, signalling an attempt by the central leadership to consolidate the organisation before the 2026 Assembly elections.
A migrant labourer from West Bengal’s Murshidabad district was beaten to death in an alleged mob attack in neighbouring Odisha, while two other workers from the same district sustained grievous injuries, triggering political outrage and tension in the area.
