Mamata's rival Suvendu Adhikari has reached out to the Returning Officer of the Nandigram Assembly constituency, claiming that the Trinamool Congres chief had failed to disclose particulars of the pending legal proceedings against her.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee addressed a rally in Purulia on Monday (March 15) by sitting in a wheelchair.
TMC MLA Debashree Roy who won twice from Raidighi constituency of South 24 Parganas quit the party on Monday (March 15). After quitting the party, she said, “The party used me. I was not given the due respect.”
Amit Shah did not come to the meeting in Jhargram due to mechanical problems in the helicopter. He spoke via video conference from Kharagpur. After the virtual meeting finishes, Shah will go to the public meeting at Ranibandh in Bankura by helicopter.
Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha has been appointed as TMC Vice President and national working committee member of the Mamata Banerjee-led party.
A delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party met the Chief Electoral Officer on Sunday (March 14) and demanded that the medical treatment history of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the SSKM Hospital be made public.
BJP supporters at Singur staged a protest after former TMC leader Rabindranath Bhattacharya was given ticket from the Singur constituency for the upcoming polls.
BJP leader Sovan Chatterjee’s name was not found in the party’s second list of candidates for Bengal polls. So, BJP's Kolkata zone convener Shovan Chatterjee and co-convener Baishakhi Banerjee broke all ties with the party.
The Election Commission took action after examining the investigation report into the incident of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee being injured during the election campaign in Nandigram. The commission removed Director Security Vivek Sahay and East Medinipur's Superintendent of Police Pravin Prakash after finding negligence in the incident.
As a confident-looking Union home minister Amit Shah held a rally in Kharagpur, a vindicated and emboldened BJP says Mamata’s drama has flopped
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