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The TMC, led by Mamata Banerjee, was dislodged from power after three back-to-back terms spanning 15 years. The BJP’s historic win with 206 seats in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly, has placed the Saffron party in the driver’s seat, while TMC has not been able to cross the three figures as it has secured only…
Last Updated:May 04, 2026, 8:20 PM IST PM Modi said voters in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu punished the TMC and DMK for opposing the Women’s Reservation Bill, which was defeated in Lok Sabha last month. Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the gathering during an event celebrating the party’s performance in Assembly elections across…
Kolkata: For decades, elections in West Bengal have carried a grim footnote – political violence, often resulting in deaths and serious injuries. From the turbulent years of the late 1960s to the fiercely contested multi-party battles of the present, control over territory and the exclusion of rivals have shaped the state’s electoral culture. But the…
New Delhi: The Trinamool Congress’s arguments that a central government employee would necessarily go against them has a fallacy, the Supreme Court said today. That fallacy, the court pointed out, is the assumption itself and instead, the Trinamool should “give the government employees some credence”. The Supreme Court’s observation comes just days after the Calcutta…
Kolkata: Repolling is being held today in 15 polling stations in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district, where voting was held on April 29 in the second phase of the assembly electionsafter the Election Commission (EC) received complaints of irregularities. The voting is being conducted in 11 polling stations in the Magarhat Paschim assembly constituency…
Last Updated:May 01, 2026, 7:59 PM IST This came after the Calcutta High Court dismissed the TMC’s petition challenging the appointment of central government employees as supervisors in vote-counting centres. The Supreme Court of India. (File) The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday moved the Supreme Court for an urgent hearing, challenging the Election Commission of…
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday paused an Election Commission order to identify nearly 800 Trinamool Congress workers and leaders ahead of the April 23 and 29 West Bengal Assembly polls, directing that they cannot be preventively arrested until June 30. A division bench comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen said…
BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, who was on a campaign trail in West Bengal on Friday, took potshots at the Congress in an exclusive interview with NDTV, saying neither janata (people) nor Mamata (West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee) pay any attention to the Mallikarjun Kharge-led party. “The Congress’s situation is such…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a sharp attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal’s Cooch Behar, calling the Malda incident a symbol of “Maha jungle raj” and alleging a breakdown of law and order in the state. Addressing a rally in Cooch Behar, PM Modi said the Malda incident, where…
The BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari, who beat West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee from Nandigram in the last assembly election, wants a rematch — this time in Bhabanipur, her current constituency. In the first list of the BJP for the Bengal election announced today, Adhikari has been named as the candidate from the seat in Kolkata,…