West Bengal Assembly Elections 2016
Bengal second round Left-Cong's best bet
"Even if Modi, BJP, Congress and CPI(M) join hands I am not afraid of them.You can unleash CBI and ED if you want.Everyday you people are insulting us. - EC faces big test on West Bengal Phase II polls today
The EC action, the unending violence (nine deaths till Saturday), the spate of complaints (2,872 on the first two polling days) seem to have upstaged the political battle. - Collapsed flyover takes the sheen off Mamata's poriborton plank in Kolkata
- Campaign rush in poll season leads to windfall at Durgapur airport
Bengal's sleepy greenfield airport near Durgapur has sprung to life with jet-setting VIP politicians flying in and out in the high noon of poll season. The airport has already earned an additional Rs Suri's Trinamool MLA Swapan Kanti Ghosh has decided not to vote on Sunday. "I see no point in going to Suri to cast my vote when political violence is going on even under EC watch. I do not want any - Fear of violence looms on poll-eve
Bengal is on a powder-keg and the Election Commission on tenterhooks. - Traffic to get likely to be affected for PM visit PM visit: Brace for traffic chaos
Some roads in central Kolkata, particularly the stretch between RCTC (Race Course) and Shahid Minar, are may remain blocked for some time on Sunday evening for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's rally in Asok Bhattacharya's Siliguri model that helped shape the Congress-CPM jote will be put to test in its home turf when Bengal goes to the polls in the second phase on Sunday. Suri/ The Election Commission on Thursday transferred Birbhum SP Mukesh Kumar and inspectors-in-charge Debashis Ghosh (Labhpur), Sanjay Srivastav (Mayureswar) and Jawhar Jyoti Ray (Bolpur) just 48 The Lok Sabha ethics committee probing the role of five Narada-stung Trinamool MPs is in no hurry to wrap up the investigation, disclosed BJP MP Arjun Ram Meghawal, who is one of the members of the Ambikesh Mahapatra, Chemistry professor at Jadavpur University who was jailed by the Mamata government in 2012 for circulating satirical cartoons about the chief minister, is campaigning in Behala - Reading the signs of Bengal's job distress
- Siliguri Model's real test is in its cradle
- 5 years on, TMC's brain bank takes a beating
TMC may have failed to co-opt Leftist intellectuals but there's a new crop of young thinkers on social media who enthusiastically support Mamata and feel that budhijeebis who attack her are elitist - Transfers won't change anything: Didi takes on EC
The chief minister's relentless tirade against the EC continues. In back-to-back meetings in Nadia on Friday, she said regardless of how many officers the EC transfers, "nothing will change". - The 23 seats in Bengal CPM's never lost since 1977 hold key to its comeback run
Along with another 32 assembly seats it lost for the first time since 1977 in 2011, these 23 remain pivotal for the Left's fortunes and it is banking on them to recover lost ground. - EC show-causes Mamata for poll code violation; 'couldn't care less', says CM
Mamata Banerjee responded characteristically, dismissing the "Poila Baishakh gift"."Bochhorer pratham din amay show-cause korechhe, unishe May manush oder show-cause kore debe. Just weeks from retirement, Bengal DGP GMP Reddy perhaps wasn't prepared for a day like this.First, the Election Commission brought forward his scheduled meeting from 2.30pm to 11.30am on Thursday. Asok Bhattacharya's Siliguri model that helped shape the Congress-CPM jote will be put to test in its home turf when Bengal goes to the polls in the second phase on Sunday. A group of intellectuals, including poet Sankha Ghosh, former Supreme Court Justice Asok Ganguly, theatre personality Kaushik Sen and social activist Miratun Nahar, under the banner ‘Save Democracy' April 14 (IANS) Threatened of "dire consequences" by "Trinamool goons", the first transgender to contest polls from Bengal under the Lok Janshakti Party, did not file their nomination. Bobby Halder A 29-year-old BJP supporter, Mantulal Guha was allegedly killed by some Trinamool supporters at Raidanga under Coke Oven police station in Durgapur on Wednesday night. - Mamata dares EC on showcause notice for violating model code of conduct
"It has been brought to our notice that she made a promise of creation of Asansol district and also made certain other utterances, for which the showcause has been issued," Chief Election Commissioner Has lightning struck twice? The fear went through the mind of hundreds of residents who live near the collapsed Vivekananda Road flyover as they rushed to the street the moment they felt a tremor on The apprehensions of voters and the larger public, tracking the progress of the polls is evident.
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