From ‘tolabaazi’ to scooter ride: Modi hits out at Mamata-led TMC government at Kolkata’s Brigade Ground rally, BJP welcomes Bengali actor Mithun Chakraborty into party

KOLKATA 7 MARCH: It is a no-holds-barred fight between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and chief minister Mamata Banerjee with both firing salvos at each other. While Modi pulled out... Read more »

Bengal Polls 2021: Mamata Banerjee’s Seat gamble from Nandigram, announces candidates for 291 seats. 46 new faces included

KOLKATA 5 MARCH: Settling all speculations, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is prepping up to contest only from the Nandigram constituency. In particular, leaving out her tried and... Read more »

Bengal: Congress working committee vs West Bengal Congress over alliance with Abbas Siddiqui’s ISF, Bengal Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury defends alliance

KOLKATA 4 MARCH: West Bengal Pradesh Congress chief Adhir Chowdhury feels that All India Congress leadership is aware of the developments of West Bengal Pradesh Congress and before the... Read more »

Bengal Polls: Abbas Siddiqui announces support to Left Front and plays off-key tune for Congress at the Brigade Rally

KOLKATA 28 FEB: The CPI(M), Congress, and Indian Secular Front (ISF) much-talked-about alliance undoubtedly pulled huge crowds at the Brigade Parade ground. But, it was the discordant note played... Read more »

Bengal’s Poll Slogan: Mamata goes from Didi to Bengal’s daughter, BJP claims Bengal does not want ‘Pisi’

KOLKATA 27 FEB: At a time when Trinamool Congress is aiming to project party supremo Mamata Banerjee as the sole triumph card for winning this year’s Assembly election slogan,... Read more »

Bengal: EC announces election schedule in 8 phases starting March 27, Mamata criticises EC’s decision

KOLKATA 26 FEB: Keeping up with the tradition of increasing phases of elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) declared an eight-phase election for West Bengal Assembly elections on... Read more »

Bengal: CBI questions Abhishek Banerjee’s wife in coal smuggling case, Kolkata Police arrests BJP leader Rakesh Singh in drug possession case

KOLKATA 23 FEB: The war over the CBI summons to both parties in poll-bound West Bengal seems to be only growing. Ahead of the Assembly elections in Bengal, both... Read more »

Mamata Vs Amit Shah in Bengal: Shah threatens to jail corrupt ministers, Didi dares BJP to first defeat Abhishek Banerjee, then think of defeating her

KOLKATA 18 FEB: In the most politically volatile district of poll bound West Bengal, while Union Home minister Amit Shah on Thursday promised at a party rally at Namkhana... Read more »

War over Culture: BJP Chief JP Nadda accuses Mamata of destroying ‘real’ culture of Bengal, Mamata calls BJP ‘Gujarati party’ 

KOLKATA 10 FEB: Ahead of the Assembly election in West Bengal, culture, and not an economic issue has become the bone of contention. Especially, between the two major warring... Read more »

PM Modi attacks Mamata in Haldia rally : Bengal will soon show ‘Ram Card’ to Trinamool

KOLKATA 7 FEB: Prime Minister Narendra Modi raised the farmers’ issue as the main poll plank  in his  first electoral rally at Haldia in West Bengal, when he criticised... Read more »