Election News

Union Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview that poll strategist Prashant Kishor wanted to join the BJP but was refused by the party.

In an exclusive interview with Asianet News, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, who will be contesting against Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, says people of West Bengal won't accept the TMC chief's drama anymore.

Earlier this week, the BJP had released a list of nine candidates for the Puducherry Assembly elections.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday (March 25) said that if the BJP comes to power in Bengal then it would renovate the temples at Bishnupur.

There has been a lot of speculation in the political arena for several days about whether Mithun Chakraborty will be an election candidate. Putting an end to all speculations, Mithun Chakraborty said that he would not contest the polls. In his words, “I will not be a candidate otherwise I will become selfish.”  

Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will address a joint campaign rally for the West Bengal assembly polls that will start from March 27.  

At a public meeting on Wednesday (March 25), West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused the BJP of backing a new political party. Without taking names, Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee slammed Abbas Siddiqui's party ISF.  

Asianet News Bangla Editor Debojyoti Chakraborty recently took a road trip to understand the voter sentiment on the ground. Here's what he observed in Nandigram from where West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will contesting against her former close aide Suvendu Adhikari. 

In an exclusive interview to Asianet News, Governor Dhankhar said: "I take command and dictate only for the Indian Constitution. I don't believe in either 'takkar' (collision) or 'takrav' (clash) because I am expected to work in harmony, I am expected to see that democratic forces blossom."

The Union Home Ministry has upgraded security for BJP's all-India co-president Mukul Roy just before the start of the Assembly polls. The centre will give him Z class security. So far, he has been getting Y plus class security.