Election News

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attended an election rally in Jhargram on Wednesday (March 17). The Trinamool leader has joined the election rally in Gopiballavpur.  

 Congress has punished the veteran for failing to defend the Congress government from poaching which resulted in President’s Rule in the Union Territory, a few weeks before the Assembly election, and for deliberately misleading Rahul Gandhi with a wrong translation.  

MDMK has been allotted six seats in DMK's alliance, and its party's candidates will contest on DMK's symbol, the rising sun.  

 The Election Commission responded strongly to Mamata's letter objecting to the transfer of the state police DG. On Tuesday (March 16), Deputy Election Commissioner in charge of West Bengal Sudeep Jain wrote to Mamata Banerjee, “Commission maintains the position that they would not like to keep on being put in the dock for alleged proximity to any political entity.”  

The body of a BJP worker was found near a river in Birbhum's Ilambazar area on Tuesday (March 16). The party alleges that the worker was strangled to death. 

The Enforcement Directorate has sent a notice to Bengal home secretary H K Dwivedi in connection to the money-laundering aspect of Metro Dairy’s share transfer to a private firm.  

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) will release its manifesto for the forthcoming West Bengal Assembly polls on Wednesday (March 17).  

Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar wants to campaign for Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming Bengal assembly polls. Even Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav wants to campaign to directly support the Trinamool supremo. Meanwhile, the top leadership of the provincial congress does not want them to campaign for Mamata Banerjee.  

BJP President JP Nadda and Union Minister Prakash Javadekar on Tuesday (March 16) accused Trinamool Congress of vandalising its Ambedkar yatra in Kakdwip, West Bengal.  

The Asianet News Cfore pre-poll survey predicts that the three-party alliance of the AIADMK, BJP and former Chief Minister N Rangaswamy's All India NR Congress will sweep the elections with an absolute majority.